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12-year-old expert make corrections for top encyclopaedia
12歲男孩給《大英百科全書》挑錯
A Schoolboy with a fascination for Poland and wildlife has uncovered several significant errors in the latest—the fifteenth—edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica.
一名癡迷于波蘭和野生動植物的學童發現最新版（第15版）《大英百科全書》中有幾處明顯錯誤。
Lucian George, 12, a pupil at Highgate Junior School in North London, was delving into the volumes on Poland and wildlife in Central Europe when he noted the mistakes.
12歲的盧西恩·喬治是倫敦北部海格特小學的學生，他在鉆研波蘭和中歐野生動植物卷時注意到這些錯誤。
The first was the assertion by the internationally acclaimed reference book that the small town of Chochim, in which two battles were fought between the Poles and the Ottoman Empire, now lies in Moldova.
第一處錯誤是這本受到國際認可的百科全書中說，波蘭與奧斯曼帝國曾經兩度交戰的小鎮霍希姆位于摩爾多瓦。
"Wrong," said Lucian, "Chochim is in Ukraine."
“錯了，霍希姆在烏克蘭。”盧西恩說。
Carefully noting the page and column of each error, the boy continued his investigations of the 32-volume tome like a diligent sub-editor.
每發現一處錯誤，盧西恩都會仔細標注錯誤的頁碼和卷數，他像一位勤奮的助理編輯一樣孜孜不倦地研究這部32卷的大作。
In volume 25, page 934, column 2, the encyclopaedia states that the European bison, or wisent, may be found only in the Bialowieza Forest in Poland, which is also incorrect.
《大英百科全書》第25卷934頁第2欄中寫到，歐洲野牛僅在波蘭比亞沃維耶扎森林生活，這一點也是錯誤的。
"The European bison also inhabit the southern mountains of Poland, Russia, Lithuania, Belarus, Ukraine, eastern Slovakia and the Romanian Carpathians," Lucian said.
盧西恩說：“歐洲野牛還分布于波蘭南部山區﹑俄羅斯﹑立陶宛﹑白俄羅斯、烏克蘭、東斯洛伐克及羅馬尼亞境內的咯爾巴阡山區。”
