I came across this story via my father-in-law, Cliff Hatton, who had sent me the newspaper cutting in the post.

我是通过我的岳父克里夫·哈顿得知这个故事的，他给我邮寄了剪报。

The man he'd taken a look at in Hatton Garden.

他在哈顿花园见过的那个人。

" Every year, thousands of fossils around the world are exposed to the elements by ordinary geological processes before being weathered to dust without a trace, " says Ms Hatton, of Sotheby's.

苏富比拍卖行的哈顿女士说：“每年，世界各地成千上万的化石在被风化成无迹可寻的尘埃之前，都会暴露在普通地质过程中的各种元素中。”

" There has been a serious uptick in demand for dinosaur specimens since then, " says Cassandra Hatton, head of natural history at Sotheby's, yet another auction house, this time based in New York.

“从那以后， 对恐龙标本的需求急剧上升，” 苏富比自然历史主管卡桑德拉哈顿说，这是另一家位于纽约的拍卖行。