【趣谈英语】宠物爱好者的咖啡馆-Cat Cafés Are On The Rise

Pre-Listening Vocabulary

• crop up: to appear suddenly (sometimes temporarily)
• fill a void: to provide a feeling or thing that is missing in one’s life
• catch on: to become popular
• double: to have a secondary purpose
• handle: to touch and/or hold in one’s hands

Cat Cafés Are On The Rise

 

Cat cafés are cropping up in a variety of cities around the world, filling a void for animal lovers who can’t have pets. The first cat café opened in Taiwan in 1998. The idea caught on in Japan where many animal-loving apartment dwellers¹ are not allowed to keep pets. Some cat cafés double as animal rescue shelters and the cats are available for adoption². Owners often charge a fee for handling the animals. The money is used to feed and care for the pets.

1 dwellers   

n.居民，居住者( dweller的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• City dwellers think country folk have provincial attitudes. 城里人以为乡下人思想迂腐。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• They have transformed themselves into permanent city dwellers. 他们已成为永久的城市居民。 来自《简明英汉词典》

2 adoption   

n.采用，采纳，通过；收养

参考例句：

• An adoption agency had sent the boys to two different families.一个收养机构把他们送给两个不同的家庭。
• The adoption of this policy would relieve them of a tremendous burden.采取这一政策会给他们解除一个巨大的负担。