印度富商胃中取出12根金条 为走私而吞

 　　Twelve bars of gold have been recovered from the stomach of a businessman in the Indian capital, Delhi, a surgeon treating him has said.

　　印度首都新德里的一名外科医生日前为一个富商做手术，竟从他胃里取出12根金条。

　　The 63-year-old man was admitted to hospital after complaining of vomiting¹ and difficulty defecating.

　　该商人现年63岁，在出现呕吐和排便不畅的状况后进了医院。

　　He told his doctor that he had swallowed a bottle cap in anger, after a fight with his wife.

　　入院时他告诉医生，自己由于和妻子吵架而怒吞了一个瓶盖。

　　印度富商胃中取出12根金条 为走私而吞

　　But when surgeons operated they found gold bars weighing nearly 400g (14oz) in his stomach instead of a bottle cap.

　　但是医生给他做手术时却在他胃里发现了重达400克（14盎司）的金条，而非他所说得瓶盖。

　　Doctors, who performed the operation on 9 April, told the BBC that police and customs authorities had questioned the businessman and confiscated² the gold.

　　手术是在4月9日进行，医生们告诉BBC，警察及海关当局已经对这位富商进行了盘问，并没收了金条。

　　"This is the first time I have recovered gold from the stomach of a patient," surgeon CS Ramachandran told the BBC. "I remember having taken out a bladder stone weighing 1 kilogram from a patient. But finding gold in a patient's stomach was something unbelievable."

　　“这是我第一次从病人胃里取出金子，”外科医生CS Ramachandran对BBC说，“我曾经从一个病人身体里取出1公斤重的膀胱结石，但是在胃里发现金子还真是不可思议。”

　　According to SBS, the businessman had swallowed the bars in Singapore and then traveled to India on March 28.

　　据澳大利亚SBS广播台报道，该商人是在新加坡的时候吞下的金条（为了混过安检走私入境），然后在3月28日飞回了印度。

　　When he arrived home, he faced a quandary³. How to get the gold out? He reportedly started "drinking lots of water and taking laxatives." It did no good, and the gold lodged⁴ in his small intestine⁵.

　　到家后他陷入窘境，该如何取出这些金子呢？报道说他开始“大量喝水并服用泻药”。但是都没有用，金子依然卡在小肠里。

　　India, the world's largest consumer of gold, has seen a rise in gold smuggling⁶ since the government imposed a 10 per cent duty on gold bullion⁷ imports in April, up from eight per cent.

　　印度是全世界最大的黄金消费国，自4月印度政府将黄金进口税从原先的8%提高到10%后，走私案件数量就显著增多。

1 vomiting   

吐

参考例句：

• Symptoms include diarrhoea and vomiting. 症状有腹泻和呕吐。
• Especially when I feel seasick, I can't stand watching someone else vomiting." 尤其晕船的时候，看不得人家呕。”

2 confiscated   

没收，充公( confiscate的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• Their land was confiscated after the war. 他们的土地在战后被没收。
• The customs officer confiscated the smuggled goods. 海关官员没收了走私品。

3 quandary   

n.困惑，进迟两难之境

参考例句：

• I was in a quandary about whether to go.我当时正犹豫到底去不去。
• I was put in a great quandary.我陷于进退两难的窘境。

4 lodged   

v.存放( lodge的过去式和过去分词 )；暂住；埋入；（权利、权威等）归属

参考例句：

• The certificate will have to be lodged at the registry. 证书必须存放在登记处。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Our neighbours lodged a complaint against us with the police. 我们的邻居向警方控告我们。 来自《简明英汉词典》

5 intestine   

adj.内部的；国内的；n.肠

参考例句：

• This vitamin is absorbed through the walls of the small intestine.这种维生素通过小肠壁被吸收。
• The service productivity is the function,including external efficiency,intestine efficiency and capacity efficiency.服务业的生产率是一个包含有外部效率、内部效率和能力效率的函数。

6 smuggling   

n.走私

参考例句：

• Some claimed that the docker's union fronted for the smuggling ring.某些人声称码头工人工会是走私集团的掩护所。
• The evidence pointed to the existence of an international smuggling network.证据表明很可能有一个国际走私网络存在。

7 bullion   

n.金条，银条

参考例句：

• In the London bullion market yesterday,the price of gold was steady.昨天伦敦金银市场黄金价格稳定。
• Police have launched a man-hunt for the bullion robbers.警方已大举搜捕抢劫金条的罪犯。