【英音模仿秀】野猫与人类争“领土”

模仿文本： The midnight sounds of mating season at the moment suggest that the programme still has some distance to run. It's not the keening and the caterwauling I mind so much as the eerily¹ human nature of the plangent² cries, which can sound like anything from a baby crying to a couple of nightclub bouncers fighting in an alley³. Let's just say those 2 million cats weren't produced with the aid of mood lighting⁴ and a box of chocolates. 

 

译文：但到了交配季节，它们半夜发出的声响说明这一项目做的工作远远不够。我并不介意猫发出尖锐的叫春声，但人们天生害怕这种凄厉的声音，比如婴儿的哭声，或者两个夜总会保镖在小巷里的打斗声。我们姑且说那200万只猫咪不是在情绪照明灯和巧克力的帮助下产生的吧。 

 

1 eerily   

adv.引起神秘感或害怕地

参考例句：

• It was nearly mid-night and eerily dark all around her. 夜深了，到处是一片黑黝黝的怪影。 来自汉英文学 - 散文英译
• The vast volcanic slope was eerily reminiscent of a lunar landscape. 开阔的火山坡让人心生怪异地联想起月球的地貌。 来自辞典例句

2 plangent   

adj.悲哀的，轰鸣的

参考例句：

• Today's world,a lot of places left already sprinkler and farm cattle,leaving even plangent machine times 今天的世界，许多地方早已离别了水车和耕牛，甚至正在离别轰鸣的机器时代。
• Enormous engine is plangent blow airline challenges civilian battalion the bugle of state-owned airline.巨大的引擎轰鸣

3 alley   

n.小巷，胡同；小径，小路

参考例句：

• We live in the same alley.我们住在同一条小巷里。
• The blind alley ended in a brick wall.这条死胡同的尽头是砖墙。

4 lighting   

n.照明，光线的明暗，舞台灯光

参考例句：

• The gas lamp gradually lost ground to electric lighting.煤气灯逐渐为电灯所代替。
• The lighting in that restaurant is soft and romantic.那个餐馆照明柔和而且浪漫。