实战口语情景对话 第29期:不速之客 The Visitor

Todd: Hey Leath! Do you want to go ahead and talk about the story you we're going to say? 嗨，利思！你接下来要讲一个故事吗？

Leath: OK, um, yeah, this was about, I'd say a year and a half ago and it was in Harare, the capital, where my mom lives. I was on holiday back home seeing my mom and anyway it's a Sunday morning and I was in the shower, got up pretty late, it must have been about half ten, and all of a sudden my mom burst into the shower and said," Leath, Leath, there's a snake, there's a snake in the kitchen." And so I thought, "Ah, what kind of snake would this be" cause we live in the capital, residential area, almost high-rise. Well, not high rise, but residential area. And so I put a towel around my waist and walked bad-temperedly throught to the kitchen. Um, attached to the kitchen we've got this little courtyard, where we set out to have morning coffee and breakfast. It's tiled and leads onto a small garden. And so I walked out onto the courtyard and there was a seven foot Egyptian cobra! Wow. I was really, really blow away because I know a bit about snakes and I know that a bite from an Egyptian cobra in a country where antidote isn't readily available is almost certainly fatal. And, there we were, mom and I, with a seven foot Egyptian cobra slithering between the courtyard and our kitchen. And, eventually, we trapped it in the courtyard and I went to fetch guys who work for national parks. National parks are the guys who kind of look after animal problems within the city, and, uh, brought them around, and we were hoping that they were going to catch it because Zimbabwe isn't so rich at the moment and stuff like that. They don't have the facilities to keep caught animals so unless it's endangered they just shoot it, so the guy shot our seven foot cobra. 好的，这个故事发生在一年半前津巴布韦的首都哈拉雷，我妈妈住的地方。那时我放假回家去看我妈妈。一个周日的早上，我起得很晚，大概是10点半，正在我冲澡的时候，我妈妈突然冲进来大喊“利思，利思，有条蛇，厨房有条蛇。”当时我就在想那是什么样的蛇，因为我们住在首都的住宅区，基本都是高楼大厦。虽然不全是高楼，但起码那是住宅区。我在腰间系了一条毛巾，心情不爽地走到了厨房。厨房外有一个小院子，我们早上都在那里喝咖啡吃早餐。院子外面通向一个小花园。我们穿过厨房走进小院子，那儿有一只7英尺长的埃及眼镜蛇！我真的被吓到了，因为我对蛇有一些了解，我知道在一个解毒剂并不常见的国家，埃及眼镜蛇是致命的。只有我和我妈，还有一只在小院和厨房间来回滑行的埃及眼镜蛇。最后我们在小院里设陷阱抓住了蛇，我联系叫来了国家公园的工作人员。他们是负责动物相关问题的专业人士。我把他们带来希望它们能把这只埃及响尾蛇抓走，因为津巴布韦还那时候还买不起这种动物。但他们没有抓走野生动物的相关部门，除非是威胁到居民生命，他们会把动物射杀，所以那名工作人员举枪杀死了这只7英尺长的眼镜蛇。

Todd: Oh, they shot it, uh! 他们向蛇射击！

Leath: Yeah, and we had to bury it out back. 后来我们埋葬了那条蛇。

Todd: Really, well, still I'm glad, you just didn't want to be bitten or anything. 真的吗，我很高兴你没有被咬一口之类的。

Leath: No, no. No way. 那可没门。

Todd: What a story! 真是个好故事！