英倫翻譯社/ Trsmaster

2021/09/02 05:30

◎孫宇青

A Chicago cat may now have eight lives after jumping out of a fifth-floor window to escape an apartment fire.

芝加哥某隻貓從5樓窗戶跳出，逃離一場公寓大火後，現在可能只剩8條命了。

Chicago Fire Department personnel were taking a video of the exterior of the building as firefighters were extinguishing the blaze when a black cat appeared through billowing smoke at a broken window. The fire-fleeing feline briefly tested the side of the building with its front paws, and then jumped.

芝加哥消防局消防員在撲滅大火時，同步拍攝大樓的外觀，正好拍到一隻黑貓在翻騰的煙霧中，從一扇破損的窗戶現身。這隻為了避開火苗的貓咪，用前爪稍微試探大樓邊緣後一躍而下。

Onlookers gasped as the cat fell. It missed a wall as it hurtled downward and instead landed on all four paws atop grass, where it bounced once and immediately ran away.

貓墜下時，圍觀群眾倒吸一口氣。牠直墜而下後並未踩在牆上，而是四爪同時落在草地上，一度彈跳起來，之後立即跑開。

"It went under my car and hid until she felt better after a couple of minutes and came out and tried to scale the wall to get back in," said fire department spokesman.（AP）

消防局發言人說：「牠跑去躲在我的車底下，幾分鐘後感覺好些才出來，接著試著爬牆回去（公寓）。」（美聯社）

英輪翻譯轉自https://features.ltn.com.tw/english/article/paper/1470387