【读新闻学英语】游客价值200万纽币手表被盗！这款表全世界只有75块
By 新西兰先驱报中文网· 2019年06月27日 02:14
A pickpocket in Ibiza stole one of the world's most valuable watches worth nearly £1million from a tourist.
伊比沙岛（位于地中海西部）的一名扒手从一名游客手中偷走了一块世界上最值钱的手表，价值近100万英镑。
Pickpocket：扒手
Billed as the lightest tourbillon split-second chronograph ever developed, the RM 50-03 weighs just 38 grams, strap included.
这款RM 50-03被誉为有史以来最轻的陀飞轮分秒计时腕表，包括表带在内，其重量仅为38克。
Tourbillon：陀飞轮表
Split-second：霎那间发生的，瞬间发生的
Chronograph：计时表；计时器
The thief, thought to be in his 30s, shoved an Azerbaijan tourist, aged 22, and stole the Formula One inspired wristwatch in broad daylight.
这名小偷据信30多岁，在光天化日之下推搡了一名22岁的阿塞拜疆游客，偷走了这块手表。
Wristwatch：腕表；手表
Police say the watch is worth €1.2 million (NZ$2 million). Only 75 of the watches exist in the world.
警方称这块手表价值120万欧元（约合200万纽币)。这款手表全世界上只有75块。
What's so special about them? The watch is a tourbillon - a specific mechanism of watchmaking - that means the entire mechanism inside the case rotates at a rate of one revolution per minute in order to nullify the effects of gravity.
这款手表有什么特别之处呢？它是陀飞轮表——一种特殊的制表机制——这意味着表壳内的整个机械装置以每分钟一圈的速度旋转，以消除重力的影响。
Mechanism：机制；原理；机械装置
Revolution：革命；旋转；巨变；大变革
Nullify：使无效，作废；取消
Gravity：重力，地心引力；严重性
In addition to that, the RM 50-03 features chronograph function of fractions of a second to measure lap times, a power reserve of 70 hours, and a torsion sensor to avoid winding.
除此之外，RM 50-03还具有计时功能，测量圈数只需几分之一秒，功率储备为70小时，扭力传感器可以避免绕线。
Torsion：扭转，扭曲
Winding：缠绕；卷绕；蜿蜒
The young tourist was walking along the seafront in Ibiza town with a friend when the unfortunate events happened. His wrist, arm, and ego was wounded.
盗窃事件发生时，这名年轻的游客正和一位朋友沿着伊比沙岛的海滨散步。他的手腕、手臂和自尊都受到了伤害。
The thief is still at large.
这名小偷目前仍然逍遥法外。
At large：逍遥法外；在逃；未被捕获的
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