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Background: 英格兰中部的一名文物管理官员作出决定，把一批安格鲁萨克逊积聚黄金定为珍宝。这意味着各地的博物馆将有机会进行投标。据形容，这是来自英格兰中部罕见的考古发现。 The quality of the craftsmanship is supreme. One thousand five hundred individual items: five kilograms of gold and two and a half kilograms of silver and many decorated with precious stones. Exquisite sword fittings, parts of helmets and a crumpled golden cross. It is by far the largest find of Anglo-Saxon treasure ever, much bigger than the 1939 discovery at Sutton Hoo. It may have belonged to the kings of Mercia and date from the seventh century, a time of great turmoil in the land. glossary [ɡl?s?ri]n. 术语（特殊用语）表；词汇表；专业词典[ 复数glossaries ] craftsmanship [kra:ftsm?nip]n. 技术；技艺silver [silv?]n. 银；银器；银币；银质奖章；餐具；银灰色adj. 银的；含银的；有银色光泽的；口才流利的；第二十五周年的婚姻vi. 变成银色vt. 镀银；使有银色光泽helmet [helmit]n. 钢盔，头盔Sutton Hoo 萨顿胡（英国萨福克郡的古迹） crumpled [krmpld]adj. 摺皱的，弄皱的v. 弄皱（crumple的过去分词） turmoil [t?:m?il]n. 混乱，骚动golden cross【股票】金叉，黄金交叉，股票价格动向线交叉期，股票价格的短期浮动平均线与中、长期平均线相交 exquisite [ekskwizit, ekskwizit]adj. 精致的；细腻的；优美的，高雅的；异常的；剧烈的n. 服饰过于讲究的男子 drawbar [dr:bɑ:]n. 列车间的挂钩；牵引车的挂钩 ulteriorly [ltiri?li]adv. 进一步地；未表明地；隐蔽地proceed to 继续下去；进入…；改读…学位 empirical [empirik?l] adj. 经验主义的，完全根据经验的 yaw [j:]n. （火箭、飞机、宇宙飞船等）偏航vt. 使…偏航 vi. 偏航 working towards a Ph.D.You might have been forgiven for thinking that piracy on the high seas was the stuff of Hollywood movies or historical novels, but Somali pirates have made 92 attacks this year, resulting in 36 successful hijackings. Their most audacious and significant attack to date came on Saturday with the capture of the Saudi-owned Sirius Star and its crew of 25 (including two Britons) which was taken 450 nautical miles (830km) off the coast of Kenya. The move was described as unprecedented by the US Navy due to the size of the vessel and the distance of the attack from the pirates’ usual theatre of operations; the Sirius Star is the biggest ship taken by pirates so far, weighing three times more than an American aircraft carrier and capable of carrying 2m barrels of oil, valued