【地道英語】Lost and found 失落而複得

　　媒體英語會帶大家一路學習 BBC 撰稿人正正在報讲世界大年夜事時經常应用到的單詞跟短語。

　　【導讀】好國一位汉子與他被盜的跑車從新團集。Bob Russell 最後一次見到他的車是遠42年前，盜賊趁他中出時從他位於費城的傢裏偷走了這輛跑車。他是怎樣找轉意愛的車?請聽BBC記者 Janet Barrie 發回的報講：

　　Bob Russell says he never gave up the search for his beloved 1967 Austin-Healey. One day in 1970, when he was a student in Philadelphia, he came home after a night out with the woman who's now his wife, and realised his car had vanished.

 

Nearly 42 years later Mr Russell was browsing the online marketplace eBay when he spotted something familiar.

　　All these years he'd kept the car's papers and keys. He searched them out, and saw the vehicle registration number on the website matched the one on the title certificate of his long-lost sports car. He told the police, who tracked the car down to a dealership in Los Angeles, and confirmed it was indeed Bob Russell's Austin-Healey.

　　Mr Russell said he paid $3,000 for it in 1967 - and it's now worth eight times that much. He says though it wasn't the money that made him to search for it for over four decades - what mattered was the sentimentalvalue it held for him and his wife.

　　Quiz 聽力測試

　　What is the word mentioned in the report that means disappeared?

　　Where did Bob Russell see his car being advertised?

　　How did he identify that the advertised car was the one that he」d lost?

　　Most cars depreciate in value, does this apply to Bob Russell」s sports car?

　　Glossary 辭匯表

　　· gave up the search放棄搜尋

　　· beloved旧道熱腸愛的

　　· vanished消失了

　　· browsing瀏覽

　　· online marketplace網上購物市場

　　· registration number車牌號

　　· long-lost遺失落多年的

　　· dealership經銷商

　　· sentimental有感情的