【英音模仿秀】野猫与人类争“领土”
英语课
模仿文本： The midnight sounds of mating season at the moment suggest that the programme still has some distance to run. It's not the keening and the caterwauling I mind so much as the eerily 1 human nature of the plangent 2 cries, which can sound like anything from a baby crying to a couple of nightclub bouncers fighting in an alley 3. Let's just say those 2 million cats weren't produced with the aid of mood lighting 4 and a box of chocolates.
译文：但到了交配季节，它们半夜发出的声响说明这一项目做的工作远远不够。我并不介意猫发出尖锐的叫春声，但人们天生害怕这种凄厉的声音，比如婴儿的哭声，或者两个夜总会保镖在小巷里的打斗声。我们姑且说那200万只猫咪不是在情绪照明灯和巧克力的帮助下产生的吧。
译文：但到了交配季节，它们半夜发出的声响说明这一项目做的工作远远不够。我并不介意猫发出尖锐的叫春声，但人们天生害怕这种凄厉的声音，比如婴儿的哭声，或者两个夜总会保镖在小巷里的打斗声。我们姑且说那200万只猫咪不是在情绪照明灯和巧克力的帮助下产生的吧。
1 eerily
adv.引起神秘感或害怕地
- It was nearly mid-night and eerily dark all around her. 夜深了，到处是一片黑黝黝的怪影。 来自汉英文学 - 散文英译
- The vast volcanic slope was eerily reminiscent of a lunar landscape. 开阔的火山坡让人心生怪异地联想起月球的地貌。 来自辞典例句
2 plangent
adj.悲哀的，轰鸣的
- Today's world,a lot of places left already sprinkler and farm cattle,leaving even plangent machine times 今天的世界，许多地方早已离别了水车和耕牛，甚至正在离别轰鸣的机器时代。
- Enormous engine is plangent blow airline challenges civilian battalion the bugle of state-owned airline.巨大的引擎轰鸣