【读新闻学英语】11年了，警方还在寻找当初神秘失踪的3岁小女孩
By 新西兰先驱报中文网· 2018年03月27日 01:35
The Met Police has been granted more funds to continue its 11-year-long search for Madeleine McCann.
伦敦警察厅已获得更多资金，以继续对Madeleine McCann进行为期11年的搜索。
Met Police：全称为Metropolitan Police Service，伦敦检查厅
The Home Office revealed today it had allocated further funds to Operation Grange - the Met's investigation into her disappearance.
英国内政部今天透露称，已经拨款给格兰赫行动——伦敦警察厅调查McCann失踪案的行动。
Home Office：英国内政部
Allocate：分配；分派
The new fund is believed to be as large as £150,000 (NZ$292,500), the Daily Mail reports.
据《每日邮报》报道，增拨的资金据信为15万英镑（29.25万纽币）。
Detectives investigating the disappearance of Madeleine McCann applied for more funding for the search in February.
调查McCann失踪案的侦探们在二月份申请要求更多搜索资金。
Detective：侦探
Government funding for the investigation has historically been agreed every six months, with £154,000 (NZ$300,000) being granted from October last year.
过去，政府同意每6个月对调查拨款，从去年10月起，侦探们获得了15.4万英镑的调查资金。
Funding：提供资金
That funding is due to run out in just five days.
这笔资金在短短五天内就要被用完了。
Run out：用完
More than £11million (NZ$21 million) has been spent so far on the probe to find the missing girl, who vanished from the family's holiday apartment in Praia da Luz in Portugal in May 2007, aged three.
目前为止，用于调查女孩失踪案的资金已超过1100万英镑（2100万纽币），她于2007年5月在葡萄牙普拉亚·达·卢什的家庭度假公寓消失，当时年仅3岁。
Probe：调查
Praia da Luz：普拉亚·达·卢什
Portugal：葡萄牙
She would now be nearly 15.
现在她就快15岁了。
Operation Grange has been one of the longest, most high-profile and costly police investigations in history.
格兰赫行动是历史上最长、最备受瞩目也最昂贵的警方调查之一。
High-profile：备受瞩目的
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