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Snakes alive! 大難不死的蛇
Monday, May 28, 2007,Page 14
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A 15-year-old Burmese Python approches a photographer's camera at a zoo in Hamburg, Germany, Mar. 1, 2007. 三月一日在德國漢堡市一所動物園，一條十五歲的緬甸蟒蛇爬巷攝影師的像機。
PHOTO: EPA
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On the morning of May 17, firefighters fighting a fire in New York's Queens borough got a surprise. They found a 3m python, two cobras, tarantulas and a number of other animals inside the basement of the building.
"It was like something out of a science fiction story," said Lieutenant Ed Ireland, one of the firefighters who helped stop the fire.
The fire was reported at about 11:20am in the borough's Corona section. The fire's cause is still unknown. Once it was put out, Ireland noticed the python near his feet.
In cages and tanks, there also were two small alligators, frogs, turtles and tarantulas, he said.
All the creatures were taken out by an animal rescue group, except for two that the lieutenant said probably died from breathing too much smoke.
"The cobras didn't make it," he said.
The animals' owner got tickets for breaking the health code.
(Jason Cox, Staff Writer with AP)
五月十七日早上，消防隊在紐約皇后區救火時大表詫異。牠們在公寓的地下室發現了一條三公尺的蟒蛇、兩條眼鏡蛇、幾隻塔蘭托毒蛛與一堆其他動物。
協助滅火的消防隊員之一艾德．艾爾蘭中尉說︰「就如同科幻電影一樣。」
消防隊在早上十一點二十分左右接獲皇后區的柯羅納區起火的消息。起火原因仍未明。火勢撲滅後，艾爾蘭中尉隨即注意到那條蟒蛇在他的腳邊。
他說，在籠子與櫃子中還有兩條小鱷魚、好幾隻青蛙、烏龜與塔蘭托毒蛛。
所有生物已被一個動物拯救團體帶走，除了中尉提到的那兩隻疑似被煙嗆死的動物之外。
他說︰「那條眼鏡蛇不幸罹難。」
這些動物的主人則拿到好幾張危害公眾健康的罰單。 （翻譯︰賴美君）
| TODAY'S WORDS 今日單字 |
| 1. basement n.
地下室 (di4 xia4 shi4)
例: You should go to the basement if a tornado threatens your area.
(假如你居住的地區將有龍捲風來襲，你應該躲到地下室。)
2. science fiction n. phr.
科幻小說 (ke1 huan4 xiao3 shuo1)
例: My brother likes all the aliens in science fiction.
(我的哥哥喜歡科幻小說中的所有外星人。)
3. rescue v.t.
拯救 (zheng3 jiu4)
例: Saint Bernard dogs help rescue lost hikers.
(聖伯納犬幫忙拯救失蹤的登山客。)
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