美国有线新闻 CNN 2016-7-11

 

AZUZ: Make sense that a race is easier when you have four legs. This is Ludivine. She`s a hound dog. She lives in Alabama. A couple of weeks ago, her owners let her out one more and Ludivine took off. She met up with some people at the start of a half marathon decided<sup>1</sup> to join them and here`s the awesome² part. Even though Ludivine stopped to sniff³ some other animals and play in the water, she finished the whole race in 7th place out of 165 runners.

当你有四条腿时比赛会变得更加容易，这句话言之有理，这是 Ludivine，她是一只猎狗，居住在阿拉巴马州。几周以前，她的主人让她再次独自从家里出来“放风”。她闲逛到小镇上举行的半程马拉松起点，便“兴致勃勃”地加入了这场路跑比赛。接下来是最棒的部分，尽管Ludivine时不时停下来嗅嗅，和其他一些动物“打招呼”并且在溪水里玩耍，她仍以第7名的成绩完成了整个比赛，超过165名赛跑者。

Now, maybe some jealous runners would have called that mush. The runaway⁴ ran away with the top story of the day and folks are probably dog-tired of hearing about it, though they maybe they`re relieved she didn`t bark any records.

现在，有些嫉妒的赛跑者或许会觉得很感伤。当天头条铺天盖地，并且听到汪星人获得半程马拉松比赛的第七名的消息，那些赛跑者可能是筋疲力尽的，尽管他们或许会因为她并没有打破任何记录而感到如释重负。

Luvidine`s owners don`t even run, though. So, in hound-sight, they don`t seem to mind being hounded about their hound`s marathon achievement.

然而Luvidine的主人也不爱运动。因此，他们似乎并不介意自己猎犬的马拉松成绩被打破。

1 decided   

adj.决定了的，坚决的；明显的，明确的

参考例句：

• This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
• There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。

2 awesome   

adj.令人惊叹的，难得吓人的，很好的

参考例句：

• The church in Ireland has always exercised an awesome power.爱尔兰的教堂一直掌握着令人敬畏的权力。
• That new white convertible is totally awesome.那辆新的白色折篷汽车简直棒极了.

3 sniff   

vi.嗅…味道；抽鼻涕；对嗤之以鼻，蔑视

参考例句：

• The police used dogs to sniff out the criminals in their hiding - place.警察使用警犬查出了罪犯的藏身地点。
• When Munchie meets a dog on the beach, they sniff each other for a while.当麦奇在海滩上碰到另一条狗的时候，他们会彼此嗅一会儿。

4 runaway   

n.逃走的人，逃亡，亡命者；adj.逃亡的，逃走的

参考例句：

• The police have not found the runaway to date.警察迄今没抓到逃犯。
• He was praised for bringing up the runaway horse.他勒住了脱缰之马受到了表扬。