Sickly Kids? Get a Pet! 宠物当家保安康
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- 最后更新于 2024年5月25日
- 发布于 2011年5月16日
- 作者：Mike Lee
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Rick meets Becky, who is walking her dogs in the park: 瑞克遇到贝齐，她正在公园里溜狗。
R: May I pet your dogs?
可以玩玩你的狗吗？
B: Sure — go ahead.
可以啊，随你玩。
R: Thanks — my wife and I would love to keep dogs, but we have young children.
谢了──我和我老婆很想养狗，可是我们的小孩还很小。
B: What difference does that make?
那有什么差别啊？
R: We wouldn’t want our kids to get sick — you know, because of something they’d caught from the dogs.
我们不想让小孩生病啊──你知道他们会从狗那儿感染到什么的。
B: If you want your kids to grow up strong and healthy, then you should have pets.
如果你想让小孩长得健壮，就该养些宠物。
R: How do you mean?
此话怎讲？
B: It’s been proven: children with pets at home have more robust immune systems and get sick less. Too sterile an environment deprives kids’ bodies of the chance to learn how to fight infections.
已经证实了：家里有养宠物的小孩，免疫系统比较强，也比较不会生病。一个没什么细菌的空间会剥夺小孩身体学习抵抗传染病的机会。
R: Really? It does make sense, I guess: I remember when I was at school, there was a kid who had six dogs and four cats at home, but, you know what? He was never off sick — unlike the rest of us.
真的吗？我想那挺有道理的：我记得我还在念书的时候，有个小孩家里养了六条狗加四只猫，可是，你知道吗？他从来没生过病──不像我们其他人。
B: Statistics do show a positive correlation between pet ownership and better school attendance.
统计数据显示，饲养宠物与较高的到课率之间的确有密切关联。
R: I’m sold! I’ll discuss with my wife tonight about getting a couple of dogs from the shelter. I’m so glad I met you—and your dogs. I was a real—
我服了！今天晚上我要跟我老婆讨论讨论，从收容中心那儿弄几条狗来。真开心能遇到你──还有你的狗。这真是──
B: Stroke of luck?
天外飞来的好运？
R: Exactly!
就是啊！
－by Sean McCormack
Vocabulary
单词发音
pet [pɛt] v. 抚弄，爱抚
robust [roˋbʌst] adj. 强健的；茁壮的；健全的
immune [ɪˋmjun] adj. 免疫的
sterile [ˋstɛrəl] adj. 消过毒的，无菌的
deprive [dɪˋpraɪv] v. 剥夺，从……夺走；使丧失[（+of）]
off sick 因病不能上课(班)
statistics [stəˋtɪstɪks] n. 统计，统计资料
correlation [͵kɔrəˋleʃən] n. 相互关系，关联
be sold on .. 接受, 同意, 赞同…
a stroke of luck 意外的好运；三生有幸 something good that happens to you by chance
Sentence of the Day
It happened at a stroke.
那一下子就发生了。
at a stroke 一下子; 马上