Organizers of a traveling exhibition about the human body breathed a sigh of relief on Thursday after an anonymous telephone tip-off led to the recovery of a stolen lung.
一個人體巡迴展的主辦單位，在一通匿名電話透露消息，而使失竊的肺臟失而復得後，寬慰地鬆了口氣。
The caller, who did not claim the posted 2,000 dollar reward, directed staff at "Bodies Revealed" to a car park, where the organ was found in a plastic bag.
這名沒有領取2000美元懸賞金的來電者，指示「人體揭秘」的工作人員到一處停車場，這枚器官就在停車場的一個塑膠袋內被找到。
"They only told us that it was in a black plastic bag in the parking area of the same shopping center where the display was exhibited," said Susan Hoefken one of the curators.
「他們只是告訴我們，它在舉行展覽的同一個購物中心停車場的一只黑色塑膠袋內，」管理人之一的蘇珊．霍夫肯說。
The lung was stolen on Monday, but organizers said there was little concern it may rot or otherwise spoil, thanks to chemical treatment. "The organ is preserved under an innovative process of polymerization that maintains the organs in a good state after coming under chemical treatment," said Hoefken.
這塊肺臟於週一失竊，但主辦單位說，拜化學處理之賜，不太擔心它腐敗或其他情況的損壞。「該器官在化學處理後，依據能維持其良好狀態的創新塑化程序下被保存著，」霍夫肯指出。
The exhibition includes real life specimens and has traveled the world. Since June it has received 90,000 visitors in Peru alone.
這個展覽包括真實的標本，並巡迴全球展出。光是在秘魯，自6月以來，參觀者就達9萬人次。
新聞辭典
breathe a sigh of relief︰寬慰的（或如釋重負的）鬆口氣。例句︰We all breathed a sigh of relief when she left.（當她離開時，我們全都如釋重負地鬆了口氣。）
tip-off︰密報、透露消息。例句︰Police, acting on a tip-off, foiled attempts to blow up the building.（警方根據密報採取行動，挫敗了炸毀這棟建築物的陰謀。）
or otherwise︰或其他情況、或相反。例句︰Fine or otherwise, we shall have to go.（不管天氣好不好，我們非去不可。）
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