VOA标准英语2011--Pooch Parks Are All the Rage
时间：2019-01-14 作者：英语课 分类：VOA标准英语2011年(十月)
Pooch Parks Are All the Rage
A popular trend in American landscape architecture is the dog park or, as the Chicago Tribune newspaper calls it, the “bark park.” There are now thousands of these fenced areas for dogs to play off-leash, some of which have one section for big dogs and another for little ones.
Canines 1 are getting their own pleasure grounds because in most American towns, you can be fined for letting your mutt run free. But in a bark park, dogs of every breed and size can frolic, meet and greet, and feel absolutely free to leave their scent 2 on trees and shrubs 3. Their owners have to remove whatever else they leave on the grounds, though.
Since 1997, Chicago has built 11 such parks - or what it calls “dog-friendly areas” - including a veritable Versailles Gardens for pooches in Grant Park.
That’s a people park on Lake Michigan, across from Chicago’s famous “Loop” of downtown skyscrapers 4 and elevated subway tracks. The 1,200-square-meter bark park features wrought-iron gates, ornamental 5 trees, dog waste receptacles and lots of small, plastic pick-up bags.
There’s lots of room for romping 6 - for both mutts and their mistresses and masters - at this bark park in Mecca, Florida.
There’s even a miniature version of Grant Park’s spectacular Buckingham Fountain for splashing.
Dog parks give cheer to humans, who get their own exercise. Enthusiasts 7 become fast friends but don’t always bother to learn each other’s names. They’re just “Princess’s Mom” or “Buster’s Dad.”
Dog haters, of course, aren’t always happy about such expenditure 8 of public funds. Having all these hounds together, they say, will mean you’ll constantly be stepping into - well - dogfights, for one thing. Rarely, reply Chicago’s happy dog owners. And the more dogs we segregate 9 in the bark park, they add, the more of the “people park” you grouches 10 have to yourselves.
- For example, the teeth are more primitive. There are large canines and unusually shaped incisors. 譬如，牙齿更为原始，有大的犬齿和非常合适的门齿。 来自辞典例句
- Well-to-canines can attend doggy daycare centers while their owners work. 富人家的狗在主人上班的时候可以去狗狗托管中心。 来自互联网
- The air was filled with the scent of lilac.空气中弥漫着丁香花的芬芳。
- The flowers give off a heady scent at night.这些花晚上散发出醉人的芳香。
- The gardener spent a complete morning in trimming those two shrubs. 园丁花了整个上午的时间修剪那两处灌木林。
- These shrubs will need more light to produce flowering shoots. 这些灌木需要更多的光照才能抽出开花的新枝。
- A lot of skyscrapers in Manhattan are rising up to the skies. 曼哈顿有许多摩天大楼耸入云霄。
- On all sides, skyscrapers rose like jagged teeth. 四周耸起的摩天大楼参差不齐。
- The stream was dammed up to form ornamental lakes.溪流用水坝拦挡起来,形成了装饰性的湖泊。
- The ornamental ironwork lends a touch of elegance to the house.铁艺饰件为房子略添雅致。
- kids romping around in the snow 在雪地里嬉戏喧闹的孩子
- I found the general romping in the living room with his five children. 我发现将军在客厅里与他的五个小孩嬉戏。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
- A group of enthusiasts have undertaken the reconstruction of a steam locomotive. 一群火车迷已担负起重造蒸汽机车的任务。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- Now a group of enthusiasts are going to have the plane restored. 一群热心人计划修复这架飞机。 来自新概念英语第二册
- The entry of all expenditure is necessary.有必要把一切开支入账。
- The monthly expenditure of our family is four hundred dollars altogether.我们一家的开销每月共计四百元。
- We have to segregate for a few day.我们得分离一段日子。
- Some societies still segregate men and women.有的社会仍然将男女隔离。