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12-year-old expert make corrections for top encyclopaedia
12岁男孩给《大英百科全书》挑错
A Schoolboy with a fascination for Poland and wildlife has uncovered several significant errors in the latest—the fifteenth—edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica.
一名痴迷于波兰和野生动植物的学童发现最新版（第15版）《大英百科全书》中有几处明显错误。
Lucian George, 12, a pupil at Highgate Junior School in North London, was delving into the volumes on Poland and wildlife in Central Europe when he noted the mistakes.
12岁的卢西恩·乔治是伦敦北部海格特小学的学生，他在钻研波兰和中欧野生动植物卷时注意到这些错误。
The first was the assertion by the internationally acclaimed reference book that the small town of Chochim, in which two battles were fought between the Poles and the Ottoman Empire, now lies in Moldova.
第一处错误是这本受到国际认可的百科全书中说，波兰与奥斯曼帝国曾经两度交战的小镇霍希姆位于摩尔多瓦。
"Wrong," said Lucian, "Chochim is in Ukraine."
“错了，霍希姆在乌克兰。”卢西恩说。
Carefully noting the page and column of each error, the boy continued his investigations of the 32-volume tome like a diligent sub-editor.
每发现一处错误，卢西恩都会仔细标注错误的页码和卷数，他像一位勤奋的助理编辑一样孜孜不倦地研究这部32卷的大作。
In volume 25, page 934, column 2, the encyclopaedia states that the European bison, or wisent, may be found only in the Bialowieza Forest in Poland, which is also incorrect.
《大英百科全书》第25卷934页第2栏中写到，欧洲野牛仅在波兰比亚沃维耶扎森林生活，这一点也是错误的。
"The European bison also inhabit the southern mountains of Poland, Russia, Lithuania, Belarus, Ukraine, eastern Slovakia and the Romanian Carpathians," Lucian said.
卢西恩说：“欧洲野牛还分布于波兰南部山区﹑俄罗斯﹑立陶宛﹑白俄罗斯、乌克兰、东斯洛伐克及罗马尼亚境内的咯尔巴阡山区。”
