OTTAWA - An elderly Canadian woman has recovered a diamond engagement ring she lost 13 years ago, after it turned up this week on a carrot pulled from her old garden.

　　渥太华——本周一名加拿大老妇人在老花园拔得的胡萝卜上，发现了13年前丢失的一枚钻石订婚戒指。

　　Mary Grams, 84, told local media she lost the ring she’d worn since 1951 while weeding on the family farm near Armena, Alberta in 2004.

　　现年84岁的玛丽祖母对当地媒体说，她2004年在艾伯塔省附近的家庭农场除草时，丢失了她从1951年结婚时戴的戒指。

　　Out of embarrassment she said she kept it a secret from everyone except her son, going as far as buying a replacement ring so her husband Norman would be none the wiser. Norman died in 2012 shortly after the couple’s 60th wedding anniversary.

　　她说，出于尴尬，除了她的儿子之外，她没有把这个秘密告诉了其他人，她甚至买了一个假戒指，这样她的丈夫诺曼就不会产生怀疑了。2012年，在60周年结婚纪念日不久后，诺曼去世了。

　　This week, Grams’s daughter-in-law Colleen Daley, who now lives on the farm, reportedly spotted the ring on a grotesque carrot she’d pulled from the garden while washing dirt off it.

　　据报道，玛丽祖母的儿媳科琳.戴利居住在农场里，本周她在花园中拔完胡萝卜后，清洗泥土，发现了一根奇怪的戴戒指的胡萝卜。

　　The stubby, misshapen carrot had grown through the ring, appearing like a tight band on a chubby finger.

　　那根粗粗的、畸形的胡萝卜穿过戒指生长，看上去就像一个胖乎乎手指上的紧箍带。

　　I’d never seen anything like that, Daley told public broadcaster CBC.

　　戴利告诉加拿大公共广播公司，“我从没遇见过这样的事情”。

　　I asked my husband if he recognised the ring, and he said yeah. His mother had lost her engagement ring years ago in the garden and never found it again. And it turned up on this carrot. Grams said she never expected to see the ring again, after looking "high and low" for it years back.

　　我问我的丈夫，他是否认识那枚戒指。他说认识。多年前，他的母亲在花园里丢失了订婚戒指，从此再也没有找到。它竟然出现在这个胡萝卜上。玛丽祖母说，她在多年的辛苦寻找后，以为此生不会再看到这枚戒指了。

　　It still fits, she told CBC.

　　她说:“这枚戒指戴上去仍然合适。”

　　Oddly, it’s not the first time someone has recovered a ring on a carrot. A Swedish woman found her wedding ring on a carrot growing in her garden in 2011, 16 years after losing it.

　　奇怪的是，这并不是第一次有人在胡萝卜上找到了戒指。2011年，一名瑞典妇女在她的花园里发现了她丢失16年的结婚戒指。