英倫翻譯社/ Trsmaster

2024/08/27 05:30
◎盧永山

After Sam Sam the Kittycat Man disappeared 11 years ago, Jennifer Ravenel couldn’t hold another cat in her lap. Her heart never could overcome the loss of that feral kitten she had rescued from the crook of a tree on her South Carolina farm.

11年前，貓人山姆．山姆失踪後，珍妮佛‧羅芙奧 再也無法將另一隻貓抱在腿上，她的心永遠無法克服失去那隻野貓的痛苦，這隻小貓是她從南卡羅來納州農場的樹彎裡救出來的。

But Sam is now back in Ravenel’s lap, thanks to her decision to have a microchip put in him.

但由於羅芙奧決定在山姆身上植入微晶片，山姆如今又回到她的腿上。

Charleston County Animal Control found Sam this month, skinny and feeding off scraps from a feral colony less than a mile from Ravenel’s home. His microchip was scanned, and Ravenel got a nearly unbelievable phone call.

查爾斯頓郡動物管制中心本月發現山姆，牠瘦骨嶙峋，正在吃距離羅芙奧家不到1英里的一個野生動物聚落的殘羹剩飯。山姆的微晶片被掃描，然後羅芙奧接到1通幾乎令人難以置信的電話。

“I really thought y’all were playing a prank on me, because it couldn’t be possible. But this is a miracle in itself,” Ravenel told workers at the Charleston Animal Society.

「我真的以為你們在跟我惡作劇，因為這是不可能的。但這本身就是一個奇蹟，」羅芙奧對查爾斯頓動物協會的工作人員說。

新聞辭典
skinny：形容詞，瘦骨嶙峋的、極瘦的、緊身的。例句：She used to wear skinny jeans.（她習慣穿緊身牛仔褲。）

prank：名詞，胡鬧、玩笑、惡作劇。例句：When I was at school, we were always playing pranks on our teachers.（當我上學時，我們總是對老師惡作劇。）

英倫翻譯社轉自 https://features.ltn.com.tw/english/article/paper/1663852