万花筒 2008-06-24&-06-25 加拿大断脚之谜

 

Finding your footing is one thing, finding foot after foot is another.

 

A severed¹ human foot, this latest foot, five different feet.

 

The foot total is now six.

 

Actually it's back down to five. But we’ll get to that. We’re talking about feet in shoes, like the one seen in this exclusive photo obtained by Global TV, one foot washing up on the coastline of Canada's British Columbia is weird² enough. But then they started turning up right and left, make that right, right, right, right and left.

 

A number of right feet, now a left foot.

 

All found since last summer by people walking or fishing, or walking the dog.

 

She wouldn't leave that running shoe.

 

Folks wondered if they came from 4 bodies still missing from a nearby plane crash, feet could naturally break off from a decomposing³ body and buoyant sneakers could carry them with a current. On Thursday, the sixth foot turned up.

 

In Adidas black man's shoe, size 10.

 

But then authorities had to do a flip-flop, you can forget the six feet under jokes, turns out the sixth foot was the skeleton of an animal paw placed in a sock and a shoe. Authorities call the apparent hoax⁴ reprehensible⁵, but even with just five feet. We haven't seen such a mystery since Big Foot, the last time a lost and found limb caused such a brouhaha was the custody⁶ fight over this guy's leg.

 

A real foot with five toes.

 

After loosing it in a plane crash, he left embalmed⁷ limb in a barbecue cooker in a storage facility, when he didn’t pay the rent, his belongings⁸ were auctioned⁹ off. The buyer Shannon Whisnant ended up calling 911.

 

What's the problem there?

I got a human foot.

You have what?

A human left foot.

Now we tried to resist sinking to the level of making tasteless foot puns, so instead of me sticking my foot in my mouth, I figured I’d let folks on the Internet do it.

 

 They're commenting on the five found feet story with puns like investigators¹⁰ are waiting for the other shoe to drop. The grisly finds make aching feet seem unworthy of complaint, and getting your feet wet, sure beats finding a foot waterlogged.

 

Jeanne Moos, CNN, New York.

 

1 severed   

v.切断，断绝( sever的过去式和过去分词 )；断，裂

参考例句：

• The doctor said I'd severed a vessel in my leg. 医生说我割断了腿上的一根血管。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• We have severed diplomatic relations with that country. 我们与那个国家断绝了外交关系。 来自《简明英汉词典》

2 weird   

adj.古怪的，离奇的；怪诞的，神秘而可怕的

参考例句：

• From his weird behaviour,he seems a bit of an oddity.从他不寻常的行为看来，他好像有点怪。
• His weird clothes really gas me.他的怪衣裳简直笑死人。

3 decomposing   

腐烂( decompose的现在分词 )； （使）分解； 分解（某物质、光线等）

参考例句：

• The air was filled with the overpowering stench of decomposing vegetation. 空气中充满了令人难以忍受的腐烂植物的恶臭。
• Heat was obtained from decomposing manures and hot air flues. 靠肥料分解和烟道为植物提供热量。

4 hoax   

v.欺骗，哄骗，愚弄；n.愚弄人，恶作剧

参考例句：

• They were the victims of a cruel hoax.他们是一个残忍恶作剧的受害者。
• They hoax him out of his money.他们骗去他的钱。

5 reprehensible   

adj.该受责备的

参考例句：

• Lying is not seen as being morally reprehensible in any strong way.人们并不把撒谎当作一件应该大加谴责的事儿。
• It was reprehensible of him to be so disloyal.他如此不忠，应受谴责。

6 custody   

n.监护，照看，羁押，拘留

参考例句：

• He spent a week in custody on remand awaiting sentence.等候判决期间他被还押候审一个星期。
• He was taken into custody immediately after the robbery.抢劫案发生后，他立即被押了起来。

7 embalmed   

adj.用防腐药物保存（尸体）的v.保存（尸体）不腐( embalm的过去式和过去分词 )；使不被遗忘；使充满香气

参考例句：

• Many fine sentiments are embalmed in poetry. 许多微妙的情感保存于诗歌中。 来自辞典例句
• In books, are embalmed the greatest thoughts of all ages. 伟大思想古今有，载入书中成不朽。 来自互联网

8 belongings   

n.私人物品，私人财物

参考例句：

• I put a few personal belongings in a bag.我把几件私人物品装进包中。
• Your personal belongings are not dutiable.个人物品不用纳税。

9 auctioned   

v.拍卖( auction的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• It was sad to see all grandmother's lovely things being auctioned off. 眼看着祖母那些可爱的东西全都被拍卖掉，心里真不好受。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• TV franchises will be auctioned to the highest bidder. 电视特许经营权将拍卖给出价最高的投标人。 来自《简明英汉词典》

10 investigators   

n.调查者，审查者( investigator的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• This memo could be the smoking gun that investigators have been looking for. 这份备忘录可能是调查人员一直在寻找的证据。
• The team consisted of six investigators and two secretaries. 这个团队由六个调查人员和两个秘书组成。 来自《简明英汉词典》