雅思閱讀材料：鸚鵡失蹤4年 回家后改說西班牙語

A pet parrot that spoke with a British accent when it disappeared from its home four years ago has been reunited with its owner - and the bird now speaks Spanish.
　　一只說著英國口音的英語的鸚鵡4年前失蹤，最近重返主人身邊后，這只鸚鵡已經(jīng)不講英語，改講西班牙語了。

The reunion was brought about by a Southern California veterinarian who mistook Nigel, an African gray parrot, for her own missing bird, the Daily Breeze reported Sunday.
　　據(jù)媒體報(bào)道，這只名叫奈吉爾的鸚鵡能重回主人身邊要?dú)w功于住在南加州的一名獸醫(yī)，她是在找自己丟失的鸚鵡時(shí)遇上奈吉爾的。

Teresa Micco tracked Nigel's microchip to Darren Chick, a Brit who lives in Torrance.
　　這位名叫泰瑞莎·蜜可的獸醫(yī)根據(jù)奈吉爾身上的晶片找到了住在加州托倫斯的英國男子戴仁·契柯。

"I introduced myself and said, `Have you lost a bird?'" Micco told the newspaper. "He initially said, `No.' But he thought I meant recently."
　　“我自我介紹后問‘你是否丟失過一只鸚鵡呢’”。蜜可說，“他起初回答說‘沒有’，不過那是因?yàn)樗�以為我問的是最近�?rdquo;

When she verified Chick's name and said she had his African grey parrot, "He looked at me like I was crazy."
　　當(dāng)蜜可確認(rèn)了契柯的名字之后，便告訴契柯他的非洲灰鸚鵡現(xiàn)在在她那兒，“他看著我像是我瘋掉了一樣。”

He said his bird went missing four years earlier.
　　他說他的鸚鵡都失蹤了4年多了。

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Little is known about Nigel's whereabouts the past four years, but Chick says the bird's British accent is gone, and it now chatters in Spanish.
　　雖然不清楚奈杰爾在這四年里發(fā)生了什么，但契柯說奈杰爾的英國口音沒有了，取而代之的是西班牙語。

Chick says last week's reunion brought tears of joy to his eyes - despite the fact that Nigel bit him when he first tried to pick him up.
　　契柯說上周他與奈吉爾重聚時(shí)喜極而泣，雖然一開始在他想要接近奈吉爾時(shí)被它啄了一下。

Micco said the behavior was not unusual and that Nigel would settle back in soon enough.
　　蜜可說奈吉爾的這種行為屬于正常，過段時(shí)間就好了。

"He's doing perfect," Chick told the newspaper by the week's end. "It's really weird. I knew it was him from the minute I saw him."
　　“它真的很棒。”契柯說，“奇怪的是，從我一見到它我就知道它是奈吉爾了。”

It's the fifth parrot reunion facilitated by Micco, who has been running ads for her own missing bird for nine months. That parrot, Benjamin, flew the coop in February when it darted out a door that was left open.
　　蜜可丟失的鸚鵡名叫本杰明，今年2月份它趁門開著的時(shí)候逃走了。蜜可為了找到它，不斷刊登廣告，至今仍沒有結(jié)果，但包括奈杰爾在內(nèi)，她已協(xié)助5只鸚鵡與它們的主人團(tuán)聚。

Julissa Sperling found Nigel outside her home and brought him to Micco after seeing one of her ads.
　　是朱麗莎·斯珀林在家門口發(fā)現(xiàn)奈吉爾的，她曾看到過蜜可的廣告于是便把奈吉爾交給了她。

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But first, she took Nigel to her dog-grooming business.
　　斯珀林先是把奈吉爾帶到了她的狗狗美容商店里。

"He was the happiest bird. He was singing and talking without control," Sperling said. "He was barking like the dogs. I'm from Panama and he was saying, `What happened?' in Spanish."
　　“它真是只快樂的鸚鵡，不停地唱歌和講話。”斯珀林說，“它還會學(xué)狗叫。我來自巴拿馬，他還用西班牙語對我說‘發(fā)生什么事了’。”

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