An MP has called on ministers to change export controls(出口管制) so that significant fossils can be classed(归类，分类) as national treasures after one of the UK’s best collections, unearthed(出土，发掘) on Dorset beaches, was sold overseas.
一位议员呼吁部长们修改出口管制法规，使重要的化石能够被列为国宝，此前英国最优秀的化石收藏之一——在多塞特郡海滩出土——被售往海外。
Last week, a Guardian investigation revealed that an unparalleled collection of fossils from the UK’s Jurassic Coast, comprising hundreds of specimens including ichthyosaurs, had been sold to the Natural History Museum in Abu Dhabi for what one source described as an “eight-figure sum”.(上周《卫报》调查披露，一批无与伦比的侏罗纪海岸化石（含鱼龙等数百件）已售予阿布扎比自然历史博物馆，据称成交价达八位数。)
上周，《卫报》的一项调查披露，一批来自英国侏罗纪海岸的、无与伦比的化石收藏——包括鱼龙等数百件标本——已被售往阿布扎比自然历史博物馆，据一位消息人士称，成交价高达“八位数”。
The fossils, which belonged to the Dorset-based(总部在多塞特郡的) private collector Chris Moore, were initially(最初，起初) offered to the Natural History Museum (NHM) in London and Amgueddfa Cymru (Museum Wales), but neither institution(两家机构都不) had the funds to buy them.
这些化石原属于多塞特郡私人收藏家克里斯·摩尔，最初被提供给伦敦自然历史博物馆和威尔士国家博物馆，但两家机构都无力购买。