神秘偷鞋贼身份揭晓
📖 逐句对照翻译
Police suspected someone was stealing shoes from a children’s school in southwestern Japan.
日本西南部一所儿童学校发生鞋子失窃事件，警方怀疑有人偷鞋。
But a security camera caught the thief in action.
但监控摄像头拍下了小偷作案的过程。
It was a weasel!
是一只黄鼠狼！
The small animal with a long body and short legs usually hunts for rats and rabbits.
这种身体长、腿短的小动物通常捕食老鼠和兔子。
But this one was hunting for children’s shoes.
但这一只却在寻找儿童的鞋子。
After the children’s shoes began disappearing, police put in place three security cameras in the school in Fukuoka in southern Japan.
在孩子们鞋子开始失踪后，警方在日本南部福冈市的学校安装了三个监控摄像头。
Soon after, recorded video showed a weasel with a small shoe in its mouth.
不久后，录制的视频显示一只黄鼠狼嘴里叼着一只小鞋子。
“It’s great it turned out not to be a human being,” Deputy Police Chief Hiroaki Inada told The Associated Press recently.
“结果发现那不是人，真是太好了，”警察厅副厅长稻田博昭最近对美联社表示。
Teachers and parents had feared the thief could be a person with mental health problems.
老师和家长此前担心，这个小偷可能是一个有心理健康问题的人。
Japanese often take their shoes off before entering homes.
日本人进屋前通常会脱鞋。
The shoes that disappeared were all slip-ons the children wore indoors, stored in special spaces near the door.
消失的鞋子都是孩子们在室内穿的拖鞋，存放在门附近的专门空间里。
Weasels are known to hide items.
黄鼠狼以藏匿物品而闻名。
People who keep weasels as pets give them toys so they can hide them.
把黄鼠狼当宠物养的人会给它们玩具，好让它们把玩具藏起来。
The weasel moved shoes around and took 15 of them before police were called.
黄鼠狼把鞋子搬来搬去，在警察接到报警前已叼走了15只。
Six more were taken the following day.
第二天又有六个人被带走了。
The weasel returned to steal one more shoe.
黄鼠狼又回来偷了一只鞋。
The video of that theft was seen the next day.
那段盗窃的视频第二天就被看到了。
The shoe-loving weasel only took the white indoor shoes made of canvas, likely because they are light to carry.
这只爱鞋的黄鼠狼只拿走了白色的帆布室内鞋，很可能是因为它们轻便好拿。
“We were so relieved,” the school’s kindergarten director Yoshihide Saito told Japanese broadcaster RKB Mainichi Broadcasting.
“我们松了一口气，”该校幼儿园园长斋藤义秀对日本广播机构RKB每日放送表示。
The children got a good laugh when they saw the weasel in the video.
孩子们看到视频里的黄鼠狼时，都忍不住大笑起来。
Although the stolen shoes were never found, the remaining shoes are now safely behind netting that covers the storage spaces.
尽管被盗的鞋子从未被找到，但剩下的鞋子现在安全地存放在覆盖着储物空间的网罩后面。
The weasel, which is believed to be wild, is still on the loose.
这只黄鼠狼被认为是野生的，目前仍未被抓获。
I’m John Russell.
我是约翰·拉塞尔。
Yuri Kageyama reported on this story for the Associated Press.
Yuri Kageyama为美联社报道了此事。
John Russell adapted it for VOA Learning English.
约翰·拉塞尔为VOA英语学习频道改编了它。
