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Woman Fights To Keep Her Alligator¹ Rambo

女子为保心爱鳄鱼 不惜杠上政府

Mary Thorn’s, a woman from Lakeland, Florida, is doing everything she can to keep her 6-foot-long, 125 pound alligator named Rambo as a pet.

来自佛罗里达州莱克兰地区的玛丽·索恩现正想方设法地争取收养一条6英尺长，125磅重的名为“蓝博”鳄鱼的权利。

Rambo can be seen in pictures wearing clothes and riding on the back of Thorn's motorcycle.

照片中的蓝博穿一身宠物衣，惬意的呆在索恩摩托车的后座上。

Rambo even has his own bedroom.

蓝博甚至还有自己专用的卧室。

Eleven years ago, Thorn purchased a license² so she could legally own Rambo, but he has now grown to be 6 feet long.

十一年前，索恩办理了合法收养蓝博的相关手续，但蓝博现在已经6英尺长了。

If an alligator is 6 feet, the owner must provide said alligator at least 2.5 acres of land to live on.

按照法律规定，如果鳄鱼的长度达到6英尺，其主人须为其提供2.5英亩的地区生活。

Thorn, however, does not own that much land.

可是，索恩并没有那么多的土地。

Hence, the battle she is undertaking³ to try and keep Rambo.

因此，她不得不开始为继续收养蓝博来回奔波。

1 alligator   

n.短吻鳄(一种鳄鱼)

参考例句：

• She wandered off to play with her toy alligator.她开始玩鳄鱼玩具。
• Alligator skin is five times more costlier than leather.鳄鱼皮比通常的皮革要贵5倍。

2 license   

n.执照，许可证，特许；v.许可，特许

参考例句：

• The foreign guest has a license on the person.这个外国客人随身携带执照。
• The driver was arrested for having false license plates on his car.司机由于使用假车牌而被捕。

3 undertaking   

n.保证，许诺，事业

参考例句：

• He gave her an undertaking that he would pay the money back with in a year.他向她做了一年内还钱的保证。
• He is too timid to venture upon an undertaking.他太胆小，不敢从事任何事业。