美語情景對話 第645期:Rocky Gets Hurt 洛基受傷

Adrienne: So tell me about how Rocky is a survivor.

埃德里安娜：請告訴我爲什麼說洛基是倖存者。

Lisa: So, Rocky is a survivor, for two reasons. One because of her surviving in the bushes, but... and that was only when she was really only a month old and we took her in. But she really earned her name last year, when she was about a year old, Rocky liked going out on my balcony, and I used to let her go out on my balcony without a leash or without supervision and she decided that she wanted to see what was beyond the balcony, so she climbed up to the top of the balcony which was like a concrete wall and she jumped. When I, you know five minutes after I had noticed that she has jumped, I went looking for her all around my apartment building. This was probably at eleven o'clock at night, and I couldn't find her anywhere, so I thought she had jumped to the roof next to my apartment building and she was out hanging around with other cats. I was very worried, but it was dark and I couldn't find her so I went to sleep. I woke up the next morning at five o'clock, a very worried mother looking for my cat, and I noticed that she had fallen actually between my apartment building and the roof, the apartment building next to mine and wasn't moving, so I picked her up and I brought her to the hospital and it turned out that she had actually broken her pelvis bone, which means that she could move her two front paws but she could not move her back paws, so she basically couldn't walk at all.

莉莎：說洛基是倖存者有兩個原因。首先，它在灌木叢中生存了下來，但是……當時我收養它的時候它只有一個月大。去年我們纔給它起名字，洛基一歲大的時候喜歡去陽臺，我經常讓它自己去陽臺玩，不拴着它，也不看着它，它想看看陽臺外面有什麼，於是它爬上了陽臺頂上一塊類似水泥牆的地方，然後跳了下去。大概五分鐘以後我才發現它跳了下去，我馬上去公寓樓周圍找它。當時是晚上11點，我在哪兒都找不到它，我以爲它跳到了旁邊那棟公寓樓的樓頂，和其它貓一起玩去了。我非常擔心，可是天太黑了，我也找不到它，所以我就先睡覺了。第二天我凌晨五點就醒了，像一個着急的媽媽一樣找我的貓，我發現它掉到了我的公寓樓和旁邊那棟公寓樓房頂之間的地方，當時它已經一動不動，我趕緊把它抱起來送去了醫院，檢查後發現它的骨盆骨折了，它的兩個前爪可以動，但是後爪動不了，所以它當時沒法走路。

Adrienne: Oh, my goodness.

埃德里安娜：哦，我的天哪。

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重點講解：
1. used to do sth. 過去常常；過去曾；
例句：He used to learn everything by rote.
他過去總是死記硬背。
2. all around 四處；到處；
例句：This Gothic cathedral has attracted visitors from all around the world.
這座哥特式的大教堂吸引了世界各地的遊客。
3. hang around 經常和…在一起；經常泡在；
例句：These days they always hang around together.
這些天他們總待在一起。
4. turn out （以某種方式）發生；最後是；結果是；
例句：I feel certain that it will all turn out well.
我覺得最後肯定會皆大歡喜。