美語情景對話 第644期:Rocky Gets a Home 小貓洛基有了新家

Adrienne: Hey, Lisa, I was hoping you could tell me a little about this cat?

埃德里安娜：嗨，莉莎，我想請你說說這隻貓的情況。

Lisa: This is my cat Rocky. Her name... her full name is Rocky Parker, and the reason for that is because she is a survivor and I'll go into that, how she's a survivor soon, and also because she climbs the walls like Peter Parker, Spiderman. How we found Rocky, was that our friends of ours lived in this apartment complex. They were walking home one day and they heard this cat meowing in the bushes and they stopped and looked for it. They kept on hearing it meowing but they couldn't actually see where it was. So they started looking for it and it happened that there was a police officer who was in the general vicinity and came to help them look for the cat. So they finally found this little kitten who was not more than a month old, had obviously been abandoned by her mother and the police officer explained that because of the animal laws in the community that if they didn't take the cat in or find an owner within a week, they had to bring the cat back to the SPCA, they couldn't leave it out on the street again.

莉莎：這是我的貓洛基。它的全名是洛基·帕克，取這個名字是因爲她是一個倖存者，稍後我會詳細說明爲什麼說它是倖存者，還有它會像蜘蛛俠彼得·帕克一樣爬牆，所以給它取了這個名字。關於我們是怎麼發現洛基的，我們的朋友住在這棟公寓樓。有一天他們走路回家時聽到這隻小貓在灌木叢裏叫，所以他們就停下來去找。他們一直都能聽到貓叫的聲音，但卻看不見它在哪裏。他們只能繼續找，碰巧附近有個警察，他過來幫我的朋友們一起找這隻貓。最後他們找到了這隻當時大約一個月大的小貓，很顯然它被它媽媽拋棄了，那名警察說，依據社區動物法，如果他們在一週內沒有收留這隻貓或者不能爲這隻貓找到去處，那他們只能把這隻貓帶回愛護動物協會，他們不能再把這隻貓遺棄在街頭。

Adrienne: What's the SPCA?

埃德里安娜：SPCA是什麼？

Lisa: The SPCA is the Society for the Protection of Animals and that controls... it regulates stray animals. It also is a place where you can bring dogs or cats and they are given away free to owners, to new pet owners.

莉莎：愛護動物協會，是管理流浪動物的組織。你可以從那裏免費領養小貓小狗。

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重點講解：
1. go into 描述；敘述；調查；研究；
例句：It was a private conversation and I don't want to go into details about what was said.
那是私人之間的談話，我不想透露其中的細節。
2. look for 找；尋；
例句：We combed the city to look for our lost dog.
我們搜遍了全城尋找我們走失了的狗。
3. keep on 重複；繼續；
例句：My wife keeps on saying that I work too hard.
我妻子總說我工作太辛苦了。
4. take in 收留，收容（尤指無家可歸者或逃難者）；
例句：That cat is a stray that we took in.
那是我們收養的一隻走失的貓。