A hard-up Kiwi who worked at a Pandora jewellery shop in Australia has narrowly avoided being kicked out of the country for stealing rings and bracelets worth more than $6400.
在澳大利亚一家潘多拉珠宝店工作的一位新西兰姑娘因为手头紧，偷了店里价值6400多纽币的戒指和手镯，差一点被遣送出境。
Hard-up：缺钱；手头紧
Narrowly avoided：差一点

The scamunravelled after she tried to have the goods sold on Facebook.
当她试图在Facebook上试图卖出这些商品时，这场骗局才被解开。
Scam：骗局； 诡计
Unravel：解开

Grace Vlaanderen, 19, who moved to Australia from Ohaupo in Waikato in 2013, pleaded guilty to theft as an employee and attempted fraud, Daily Mail Australia reported.
据澳大利亚《每日邮报》报道，现年19岁的Grace Vlaanderen在2013年从怀卡托的Ohaupo搬去澳大利亚，她对自己作为雇员实施偷窃并企图诈骗的罪行供认不韪。
Plead guilty to：认罪
Fraud：欺诈；诈骗

A casual worker at a Pandora shop on Queensland's Sunshine Coast,, she stole the jewellery between November and last month.
作为昆士兰阳光海岸一家潘多拉珠宝店的一名临时工，她在11月至上个月期间偷窃珠宝。
Casual worker：临时工
Queensland：昆士兰

She arranged for her sister, who was unaware of the theft, to offer the goods for sale on Facebook.
她安排自己不知情的姐姐（或妹妹）在Facebook上销售这些偷来的商品。
Be unaware of：不知道；不知情

When a customer of the shop asked about 15 gold rings advertised online, the manager's suspicions were aroused and a stocktake found the same items were missing.
当商店的一位客人询问网站上登出的15枚金戒指。经理才开始怀疑，经过盘点后发现有同样的戒指不见了。
Stocktake：盘点

A police search of Vlaanderen's home turned up the gold rings - plus four silver rings and two bracelets.
警方搜查Vlaanderen的家后发现了金戒指，还有四枚银戒指和两个手镯。
Silver ring：银戒指

The stolen jewellery was worth NZ$6436.
被偷的珠宝总价值为6436纽币。

Magistrate Haydn Stjernqvist told the defendant her offending was "very serious" and that she was "already halfway across the Tasman".
地方法官Haydn Stjernqvist告诉被告称，她的罪名“非常严重”，差点足以把她遣送回国。
Magistrate：地方法官

Vlaanderen was sentenced, in the Maroochydore Magistrates Court, to 15 months' probation; no conviction was recorded.
Vlaanderen在Maroochydore地方法院被判处15个月缓刑，没有定罪记录。
Sentence：宣判；判决
Probation：缓刑
Conviction：定罪

The teenager, who quit Pandora and now works as a cafe waitress and barista, suffered from "depression issues", her lawyer said. She stole because she was struggling to pay her bills.
这位青少年已经在潘多拉辞职，目前在咖啡店担任服务员兼咖啡师，她的律师称，她存在“抑郁问题”。当时她实施偷窃是因为自己没钱缴账单。
Barista：咖啡师

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（责编：Lesley）

来源 - 新西兰先驱报中文网