【读新闻学英语】半夜偷路800米，这个小偷思路真的独特

As a way of making some fast cash, one rather daring thief recently managed to steal a road.
为了快速赚钱，一个相当胆大的小偷最近设法偷了一条路。
Daring：大胆

Residents of a village outside of Suqian city in Jiangsu province noticed that one of their roads had mysteriously vanished overnight. Villagers called in to police, wondering if this had something to do with construction work, however, police checked with the village committee and found that there were no resurfacing plans for the road, China News Service reports.
江苏省宿迁市一个村庄的居民发现他们的一条道路在一夜之间神秘地消失了。据中新社报道，村民打电话给警察，想知道这是否与建筑工程有关，但警方向村委会询问，发现并没有重铺道路的计划。
Village committee ：居委会
Vanishe：消失

Arriving at the village, officers were stunned to find that an 800-meter-long stretch of pavement was, in fact, simply no longer there.
到达村庄后，官员们惊呆了，发现800米长的路面就这样不存在了。
Pavement：路面

Eventually, they were able to track down the culprit, a local man surnamed Zhu, who told police that recently he was a bit bored at home, without much to do, and had been looking for a way of making some quick money when he realized that the answer was right under his feet.
最终，他们追查到了罪魁祸首，一名姓朱的当地男子，他告诉警方，他最近在家感到有点无聊，没有多少事可做，当他意识到这点后就一直在找赚快钱的方法，而答案就在脚下。
Eventually：最终

Zhu said that hardly anyone ever used the road, so he decided to dig it up and sell away the raw materials.
朱姓男子说几乎没有人使用这条路，所以他决定把它挖出去当原料卖掉。

In order to do this, Zhu hired a few trucks and an excavator and went to work overnight. The following day, he managed to sell the concrete rubble for 10 yuan a ton, pocketing 5,000 yuan for his trouble.
为了挖路，朱姓男子雇了几辆卡车和一台挖掘机，在晚上开工，第二天他设法以每吨10元的价格出售混凝土碎块，并因此赚了5000元。
Excavator：挖掘机
Concrete rubble：混凝土碎块

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