湖南省長(zhǎng)沙市麓山國(guó)際實(shí)驗(yàn)學(xué)校 馬巍 編譯

Under the cover of darkness,Claude slips through the back door of an unknown house and enters the kitchen.As itsunsuspecting(未料到的；不知情的)owners sleep inside,theintruder(闖入者)pads(躡手躡腳地走)over the floor with barely a sound.He’s done this before.He knows what he is looking for and he knows how to get it.But it isn’t jewellery or money that he is after— it’s food.

This is a new television show,Horizon：The Secret Life of the Cat(BBC2)whichuncovers(揭露)the“secret lives”ofdomestic cats(家貓).50 cats were fitted with GPS trackers thatpinpointed(為……準(zhǔn)確定位)their position to within a few centimeters as theyprowled(潛行)on their nightly rounds.The most exciting thing was the tiny collar-cameras they wear,offering viewers a cats-eye view of the world.

The cats were thefocus(焦點(diǎn))of the programme：Ginger,always ran into his neighbor’s garden at 4 a.m.to fight theresident(定居的)cat;Molly,travelled two hours from home to hunt from a birds’nest in a wood;and there was Claude,whocrept into(爬進(jìn))a stranger’s house each night to steal food.

Cats,as their owners already guessed,like to sneak through next-door’scat-flap(開在門上供貓進(jìn)出的貓洞)andraid(劫掠)the food bowl;they warn and then run away when they meet one another.As for cats,hunting mice means,mostly,too much trouble for them.

在夜幕的掩護(hù)下，克勞德悄悄溜進(jìn)一個(gè)陌生的屋子的后門進(jìn)入了廚房。當(dāng)毫無(wú)覺察的屋子主人在里面酣然入睡的時(shí)候，這名入侵者躡手躡腳地走過(guò)，幾乎沒有發(fā)出任何聲音。他以前就這么干過(guò)。他知道他正在尋找什么，他也知道如何得到它。他尋找的并不是珠寶或錢，而是食物。

這是BBC二臺(tái)的一個(gè)新電視節(jié)目——《地平線：貓咪的秘密生活》，為我們揭示了家貓的“秘密生活”。50只貓咪被戴上了GPS追蹤器，當(dāng)這些貓咪在夜間潛行時(shí)，這些追蹤器可以定位它們的位置，誤差僅為幾厘米。最刺激的是給它們戴上了非常小的項(xiàng)圈攝像頭，讓觀看者可以通過(guò)貓眼的視角看世界。

貓咪們是整個(gè)節(jié)目的焦點(diǎn)：有只叫“金杰”的貓，多次在凌晨四點(diǎn)鐘溜進(jìn)鄰居家的花園，和他們家的貓打架；有只叫“莫利”的貓，到離家兩小時(shí)路程的一個(gè)小樹林里去搗鳥窩；還有這只叫“克勞德”的貓，每晚都爬進(jìn)一個(gè)陌生人的家里偷食物。

就像它們的主人已經(jīng)猜到的那樣，貓咪們會(huì)通過(guò)貓洞溜到隔壁鄰居家，打劫食盆里的貓糧；它們遇到同類，會(huì)發(fā)出警告，然后默默溜走；對(duì)于大部分貓咪而言，抓老鼠則是件麻煩事兒。