365个英语简短小故事-198. Monkeys Cause Man’s Death
时间：2019-01-27 作者：英语课 分类：365个英语简短小故事
A florist 1 in Delhi, India fell to his death after he was attacked by a gang 2 of monkeys. He was on his balcony watering his plants. Three monkeys, which usually were friendly beggars 3, sat on his balcony railing and watched. They were hoping that he would offer them some food. When he finished watering the plants, he sat down in a chair to enjoy the sunset.
The monkeys waited a minute. When they realized that he was not going to feed them anything, they leaped on him. They scratched his face and pulled at his hair and his clothes. Bleeding and screaming, he panicked. Instead of going back into his apartment through the sliding glass door, he leapt off his balcony. He lived on the second floor, so it was only ten feet to the pavement below. However, he struck the pavement head first, immediately breaking his neck.
The monkeys jumped to the pavement. They dug through his shirt and pants pockets looking for food. One monkey took off with his keys. As humans destroy the forests in India, monkeys like these are getting hungrier and more aggressive.
“Our monkeys are getting out of control,” said a neighbor. He said he had already barricaded 4 his balcony with barbed wire. “It’s ugly, I must admit. A balcony shouldn’t look like the outside of a prison. My neighbors want me to take it down. They say the barbed wire might injure the monkeys and it’s unsightly. But I’ll bet 5 that some of my neighbors will be going to the hardware 6 store tomorrow.”
- The florist bunched the flowers up.花匠把花捆成花束。
- Could you stop at that florist shop over there?劳驾在那边花店停一下好不好？
- The gang live abroad,beyond reach of the British police.这帮匪徒住在国外，英国警方鞭长莫及。
- Some gang came in and shot the place up.有股匪帮进来对这个地方开枪扫射。
- The rubbish left behind by the Cup Final crowd beggars description. 观看决赛的观众们丢下的垃圾实非笔墨所能描述。
- To give money to beggars sometimes amounts to encouraging begging. 给乞丐钱，有时就等于鼓励行乞。
- The police barricaded the entrance. 警方在入口处设置了路障。
- The doors had been barricaded. 门都被堵住了。
- I bet you can't do this puzzle.我敢说，你解决不了这个难题。
- I offered to bet with him.我提出与他打赌。