流浪狗的报恩 陪你走完700公里.doc

流浪狗的报恩 陪你走完700公里 ?难度：适中?作者：沪江英语?来源：每日邮报??评论：13??阅读：2544? Exhausted, covered in mud and desperately hungry, a team of Swedish athletes sat down for a meal as they prepared to take on a dangerous 20-mile trek through the Ecuadorian rainforest. 浑身是泥、精疲力竭的瑞士几名极限运动员在徒步穿越厄瓜多尔雨林的途中，准备坐下来吃点东西。 As they opened their canned meat, a tired Mikael Lindnord noticed a scruffy, miserable stray dog staring at him out of the corner of his eye. 当他们打开肉罐头开吃的时候，队员马克尔?林诺德看到一只邋遢可怜的流浪狗正盯着他看。 Feeling sorry for him, he fed the dog a meatball and thought nothing of it, but as the team stood up to continue their race the animal started to follow them - and he didnt stop. 马克尔看它很可怜就给了它一个肉丸子，之后就没再想这件事。但当马克尔他们整理队伍继续前行的时候，流浪狗却没想要离开的意思，并开始跟着他们。 As the group of four navigated?the final two stages of the 430-mile Adventure Racing World Championship, the dog befriended them and was eventually given the name Arthur. 在马克尔一行四人参加的这项430英里（约700千米）探险越野世界锦标赛进行到还剩两个环节的时候，他们和这只流浪狗成为了朋友，并给它取名“亚瑟”。 Every grueling task the team face, Arthur would do the same. He swam alongside them while they kayaked down rivers, dragged himself up hills during hikes and pulled through knee-deep mud during treks. 无论赛程多么艰难和残酷，亚瑟都坚持陪伴队伍前行。队员们乘皮划艇过河时，亚瑟跳入河中游泳跟着他们。它和队员们一起翻山越岭，一起穿过及膝深的泥泞。 Even when the team tried to get rid of their new member out of concerns for his safety - he refused to leave. 即便是队员们考虑到亚瑟的安全想要和他分开的时候，它仍然不离不弃。 This meant when he was tired they stopped for a break and when he got stuck in the mud they pulled him out. 所以，当亚瑟疲累的时候，队员们也会停下来休息；当亚瑟陷入泥浆的时候，队员们会帮它爬出来。 After six days the team finished the race, and the dog had suffered. They therefore decided to take him to a vet while still in South America to have him checked out. 6天之后，队员们完成了比赛，而亚瑟也吃了不少苦。那时候大家都还没有离开南美洲，所以决定带亚瑟去看兽医，检查身体状况。 During that time Lindord thought to himself that after their experience, they could not leave Arthur, so he decided to adopt him and take him back to Sweden. He applied to the Jordbruksverket (the Swedish Board of Agriculture) and was made to