万花筒 Kaleidoscope 2007-03-14&15, 健身袋内发现死婴

A yellow daffodil with a prayer pinned to a pink and blue ribbon, lies next to a fire hydrant where a newborn baby boy was found dead this afternoon.

"We know that this child is a newborn. It's a male. And we're not quite sure of the race. But we know that according to the ME's office that it has been dead for about ten hours. And so at some point we think during the night, somebody came through and dropped that bag on the side of the road."

Sandy Springs police say at about 4:30 today, a boy walking to a friend's house in the Dunwoody townhome complex, saw a blue gym bag lying on the ground. Out of curiosity¹, he opened the bag, and found a dead baby boy inside. The boy brought the bag to his parents who then called 911.

What we are trying to do is we are trying to find out through canvassing³ we've been through the apartments and the townhomes here. And with canvass² and distributed flyers, we need to find out who the mother of this child is.

1 curiosity   

n.好奇心，新奇的事物，珍品

参考例句：

• He gave in to curiosity and opened my letter.他抑制不住好奇心，拆开了我的信。
• The children are dying of curiosity to see what's in the parcel.孩子们出于好奇，迫不及待地想看看包裹中是什么东西。

2 canvass   

v.招徕顾客，兜售；游说；详细检查，讨论

参考例句：

• Mr. Airey Neave volunteered to set up an organisation to canvass votes.艾雷·尼夫先生自告奋勇建立了一个拉票组织。
• I will canvass the floors before I start painting the walls.开始粉刷墙壁之前，我会详细检查地板。

3 canvassing   

v.（在政治方面）游说( canvass的现在分词 )；调查（如选举前选民的）意见；为讨论而提出（意见等）；详细检查

参考例句：

• He spent the whole month canvassing for votes. 他花了整整一个月四处游说拉选票。
• I'm canvassing for the Conservative Party. 我在为保守党拉选票。 来自辞典例句