trunk #2
東京都目黒区の公園の池で人のばらばらになった遺体が見つかりました。
Body parts found in pond at Tokyo park
Various body parts were recovered from a pond in a park in Tokyo's Meguro Ward on June 23 after a man reported to police that he saw something looking like a human leg in the pond, it has been learned.
A man passing through the park at around 10:30 a.m. on June 23 reportedly spotted an object that looked like a human leg in the pond and reported it to a nearby police box. After officers from the Metropolitan Police Department's Himonya Police Station searched the pond, they discovered several parts of a body including a head, the trunk of a body and a leg. Police are trying to identify the parts and have launched an investigation on suspicion of illegal disposal of a body.
According to sources close to the matter, the body parts were badly decomposed. Police have been unable to determine the sex of the body.
The park is located in a residential neighborhood some 400 meters southwest of Gakugei-daigaku Station on the Tokyu Toyoko Line.
http://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20160623/p2a/00m/0na/021000c
今回取り上げるのはtrunk of a bodyです。
trunkを『ジーニアス英和辞典』（第五版、大修館書店）で調べると「（身体の）胴」とあり、とくに「bodyからhead, arms, legsを除いた部分」を指すことが分かりました。
LDOCEでも“the main part of your body, not including your head, arms, or legs”と定義されています。
見つかった遺体が上記の定義のように、胴、手足それぞれ見つかったことから、この表現が使われていると思われます。
普段は身近な存在の公園で、このような事件が起こるとぞっとします。(flyingbird)
