BBC初級口語:巴黎首飾搶劫案Paris Jewel Heist

Background: 法國警方逮捕了與法國曆來最大一起首飾搶劫案有關的25名嫌犯。這期發生在去年12月份的持械搶劫案中有四名男子，其中兩人男伴女裝。這夥人從著名的香榭麗榭大街旁邊的哈里溫斯頓店裏盜竊的首飾價值達一億美元。

【文本】

Police made the arrests in two separate swoops in Paris and its northern suburbs. They also found one and a quarter million Euros in cash as well as a quantity of arms.

It seems they had obtained information that intermediaries carrying some of the stolen jewels had come back to France with the intention of selling them.

The heist at the Harry Winston store on the luxury Avenue Montaigne was among the most daring and certainly the biggest jewel theft in French history.

Two of the four man gang were dressed as stylish women. They pulled out revolvers and made off with the store's entire contents.

Police think there must have been an inside connection and among those who've been arrested is a guard at the store.

It's believed the suspects have links to the Paris underworld and are not therefore members of the international gang known as the Pink Panthers which has been blamed for scores of jewellery thefts in some twenty different countries in recent years.

【口語突破】

swoops 突然襲擊

suburbs 郊區

arms 武器/軍火

intermediaries 中間人

heist 持械搶劫

daring 膽大妄爲的

stylish 着裝講究的

revolvers 左輪手槍

suspects 嫌疑犯

underworld 地下非法組織

scores 好幾十起