On May 11, Eric Congdon was working as usual. He is the owner of Olympia Moto Sports in Hendersonville, North Carolina, USA. On this day, he opened a crate from China.
He was very surprised to see a cat inside.
The cat had chewed through one of the boxes before it left Shanghai on April 3. She had spent at least 35 days on a ship inside a container filled with motorcycle clothes.
Congdon saw the cat cowering in a corner, weak but still alive.
Animal service workers are calling the cat China. A co-worker of Congdon's plans to adopt China if the veternarian says she can stay in the US.
Veternarian Michelle Misavage said a pet would normally die after not eating or drinking for so long. She thinks that maybe cats' bodies "adjust to the lack of water" and somehow China received small amounts of water from condensation. (Jason Cox, Staff Writer with AP)
五月十一日，艾瑞克?康登正一如往常地工作，他是美國北卡羅萊納州韓德森維爾市奧林匹亞機車運動服飾店的負責人。這天，他打開一只來自中國的條板箱。
他驚見裡面躲了一隻貓咪。
這隻母貓四月三日跟著貨櫃船離開上海前，先是咬破了其中某個箱子，然後在裝滿機車騎士服的條板箱內待了至少三十五天。
康登看到「中國」瑟縮在一角，儘管相當虛弱，但仍有生命跡象。
動物服務機構人員把這隻貓取名為「中國」，如果獸醫說牠可以留在美國，康登的一名同事打算領養牠。
獸醫蜜雪兒?米薩維奇表示，一般來說，寵物這麼久不吃不喝應該會死亡。她認為，貓咪可能會「適應身體的水份不足」，「中國」也許就是攝取了霧氣凝結成的水滴，才得以存活這麼久。
（美聯社／翻譯：林倩如）
1. crate n.
條板箱 (tiao2 ban3 xiang1)
例: The crates were so big they couldn't be delivered. We had to pick them up at the post office ourselves.
(那些條板箱大到沒辦法遞送。我們得親自到郵局領取。)
2. cower v.i.
蜷縮 (quan2 suo1)
例: When he saw the big scary man, the little dog cowered behind the couch.
(小狗看到那名可怕的壯漢，便蜷縮到沙發後。)
3. condensation n.
冷凝 (leng3 ning2)，濃縮 (nong2 suo1)
例: The condensation on the grass in the early morning hours is called dew.
(清晨草地上凝結的水滴稱為露珠。)
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