【精英翻譯】的部落格

精英翻譯轉自https://features.ltn.com.tw/english/article/paper/1590815

◎管淑平

A hungry black bear barged into the garage of a Connecticut bakery, scared several employees and helped itself to 60 cupcakes before ambling away.

一隻饑腸轆轆的黑熊闖進康乃狄克州一家烘焙店車庫，嚇壞好幾名員工，還自行取用了60個杯子蛋糕後從容離開。

Workers at the bakery were loading cakes into a van for delivery when the bear showed up.

這隻熊出現時，這家烘焙店的員工正在把蛋糕裝上一輛廂型車準備運送。

Bakery owner Miriam Stephens said that she heard employee Maureen Williams “screaming bloody murder” and yelling that there was a bear in the garage.

烘焙店老闆米莉安‧史帝芬說，她聽到員工莫林‧威廉斯「拚命尖叫」，大喊車庫裡有熊。

Surveillance video shows the bear dragging a container of cupcakes from the garage into the parking lot and ate 60 cupcakes.

監視器影片顯示，這隻熊從車庫把一個裝有一批杯子蛋糕的容器拖到停車位，吃掉60個杯子蛋糕。

A baker finally got the bear to leave by honking a car horn, Williams said. (AP)

威廉斯說，一名烘焙師傅按車子喇吧，才終於把熊趕跑。（美聯社）

新聞辭典

help oneself to：片語，自行取用，隨意吃用。例句：Please help yourself to a slice of apple pie.（請吃塊蘋果派。）

scream bloody murder：片語，拚命喊叫。例句：She saw a spider and screamed bloody murder.（她看到一隻蜘蛛，就拚命大叫。）