美语情景对话 第644期:Rocky Gets a Home 小猫洛基有了新家
Adrienne: Hey, Lisa, I was hoping you could tell me a little about this cat?
埃德里安娜：嗨，莉莎，我想请你说说这只猫的情况。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：这是我的猫洛基。它的全名是洛基·帕克，取这个名字是因为她是一个幸存者，稍后我会详细说明为什么说它是幸存者，还有它会像蜘蛛侠彼得·帕克一样爬墙，所以给它取了这个名字。关于我们是怎么发现洛基的，我们的朋友住在这栋公寓楼。有一天他们走路回家时听到这只小猫在灌木丛里叫，所以他们就停下来去找。他们一直都能听到猫叫的声音，但却看不见它在哪里。他们只能继续找，碰巧附近有个警察，他过来帮我的朋友们一起找这只猫。最后他们找到了这只当时大约一个月大的小猫，很显然它被它妈妈抛弃了，那名警察说，依据社区动物法，如果他们在一周内没有收留这只猫或者不能为这只猫找到去处，那他们只能把这只猫带回爱护动物协会，他们不能再把这只猫遗弃在街头。Adrienne: What's the SPCA?
埃德里安娜：SPCA是什么？
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：爱护动物协会，是管理流浪动物的组织。你可以从那里免费领养小猫小狗。
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重点讲解：
1. go into 描述；叙述；调查；研究；
例句：It was a private conversation and I don't want to go into details about what was said.
那是私人之间的谈话，我不想透露其中的细节。
2. look for 找；寻；
例句：We combed the city to look for our lost dog.
我们搜遍了全城寻找我们走失了的狗。
3. keep on 重复；继续；
例句：My wife keeps on saying that I work too hard.
我妻子总说我工作太辛苦了。
4. take in 收留，收容（尤指无家可归者或逃难者）；
例句：That cat is a stray that we took in.
那是我们收养的一只走失的猫。
