《中英對照讀新聞》Homeless Danes receive 1,600 sleeping bags left behind at Roskilde rock festival丹麥遊民獲得1千6百個在羅斯基德搖滾音樂節之後棄置的睡袋

◎張沛元

More than 1,600 sleeping bags and 510 mats left behind at Scandinavia's biggest rock festival are being handed out to homeless people in the Danish capital.

在斯堪地那維亞最大搖滾音樂節被棄置的超過1千6百個睡袋與510張床墊，已經分發給丹麥首都的遊民。

Visitors at the Roskilde festival often leave behind some of their camping gear. Since 2003, it has been donated to charity, and this year's crop of abandoned items was the biggest yet, organizers said.

羅斯基德音樂節的訪客通常會留下他們的露營用具。自從二○○三年以來，這些棄置的物件都捐給慈善機構，而今年的棄置物件數量為歷年來最多，主辦人員表示。

This year, festival people were really cool and asked people on large television screens to roll their sleeping bags and throw them into a container if they didn't want take them home,'' said Kim Clemen, a spokesman for the group behind the initiative.

「今年，參加音樂節活動的人真的很酷，在大螢幕上要求大家捲起睡袋，然後丟進一個集中裝置，如果他們不想帶（睡袋）回家的話，」推動該活動的團體發言人金•克里曼說。

A total of 1,642 sleeping bags and 510 mattresses were collected, as well as an undisclosed number of shirts, carpets, pillows, chairs and rubber boots after the four-day festival.

在4天活動後，總共收集到1千642個睡袋與510張床墊，此外還有數量未透露的襯衫、地毯、枕頭、椅子與膠靴。

新聞辭典

sleeping bag：名詞，睡袋。sleeping在此意思為「供睡眠的」，但依據上下文，可有不同的意思，例如sleeping beauty（睡美人），意思是「沈睡的」。

leave hehind：片語，忘了帶；遺落；棄置。例句：She left her old dresses hehind her.（她把她的舊洋裝丟了）。

Roskilde Festival：羅斯基德音樂節，歐洲大型戶外音樂活動，始於一九七一年，門票收入捐做慈善人道之用。