Have you ever seen an elephant on the streets of the city where you live? Probably not, because elephants usually live far away from cities or in zoos.
These elephants are walking through the streets of New York City. Don't worry, they haven't escaped from a zoo. These elephants are part of a traveling circus that comes to New York every year. Each year, when the circus first arrives in the city, the elephants in the circus walk from one end of the city to the other end to announce to everyone who lives in the city that the circus has arrived.
The only problem is that, the elephants walk through the city in the middle of the night, so if you want to see them, you have to stay up very late. (Kayleen Hartman, staff writer)
你在居住城市的街道上看過大象嗎?大概沒有,因為大象通常住在離城市很遠的地方,或是動物園裡。
這些大象正穿越紐約的街頭。別擔心,牠們並非從動物園中逃走。這些大象屬於每年到紐約表演的巡迴馬戲團。每年馬戲團一抵達紐約,馬戲團的大象就會從紐約的一端走到另一頭,向住在紐約的所有人宣佈馬戲團來囉!
唯一的問題是,大象在半夜穿越整座城市,假如你想看大象,就得很晚睡囉!
(翻譯:賴美君)
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