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My Sweet Teddy泰迪熊
（图片源自摄图网）
U.S. president Theodore "Teddy" Roosevelt loved to hunt. Ironically, his passion for this sport led him to become a conservationist. In November of 1902, Roosevelt tried to settle a border dispute between two Southern states. During a break in negotiations, he was invited to go bear hunting. By the end of the second day, however, he still hadn't shot anything. Someone in the party cornered a cub and tied it to a tree for Roosevelt, but he refused to shoot. He would kill game in the wild, he said, but he "drew the line" where captive animals were concerned. He said, "If I shot that little fellow, I [w]ouldn't be able to look my boys in the face again."
Word of his soft heart quickly reached the press, and an artist named Clifford Berryman turned the incident into a cartoon. Morris Michtom, a Russian immigrant, saw it in The Washington Post and asked his wife Rose to make a toy version of the cartoon bear. Michtom wrote and asked Roosevelt for permission to name the toy "Teddy's Bear," using the President's nickname, and sell it in his novelty store in Brooklyn. The President didn't see how his name would help sales, but he readily consented to his request.
Though a German toy manufacturer was working on a stuffed bear at the same time, it is the American version of the teddy bear's tale that lives on in history. It is the most cherished stuffed animal in the world today.
美国总统罗斯福喜爱打猎。但讽刺的是，他对狩猎的热爱却使他成为一名环保主义者。1902年11月，罗斯福总统试图调解南方两个州之间的边境纷争。在协调的空档，他受邀参加猎熊活动。然而，到了第二天结束的时候，他仍然一只动物也没猎到。因此，同行的人中有人围堵了一只小熊，并把它绑在树干上让罗斯福总统射杀，但罗斯福拒绝了。他会射杀野地里的猎物，但绝不杀害遭俘虏的动物。他说：“如果我射杀那只小东西，我再也无法面对我儿子。”
有关他豆腐心肠的传言很快就传到新闻媒体耳中，一个名叫克利福德·贝里曼的画家将这件事画成漫画。后来一位名叫莫里斯.米奇坦的俄国移民在《华盛顿邮报》看到这则漫画，就请太太萝丝制作玩具版的卡通熊。米奇坦写信给罗斯福总统，征求总统的同意以其昵称将这只玩具熊命名为“泰迪熊”，并在自己位于布鲁克林的创意商店贩卖。总统虽不知道自己的名字对销售会有多大帮助，但仍欣然同意了这项请求。
虽然在同一时间有家德国玩具制造商生产这种填充熊玩偶，但美国版的泰迪熊传奇却在历史中源远流传。今天，泰迪熊是世界最受人喜爱的填充动物玩偶。
注：罗斯福总统原本的谈话中使用could，但使用would才符合文法规则。将修改的部分放入中括号 (brackets) 内表示此部分是正确的用法，但不是原本被引用者的说法。
Platypus鸭嘴兽
（图片源自摄图网）
While scientists call it Ornithorhynchus, most people know it as a platypus. It has a nose like a duck's bill, webbed feet like a frog or a duck, a tail like a beaver's, and a body covered in fur, even though it loves swimming. This is truly one of nature's weirdoes.
This Australian oddity of nature is unique, to say the least. It has so many unusual features that it makes us think twice about how we classify the creature. The platypus lays eggs. This is unusual in that this animal is a mammal. Mammals give birth to live offspring, whereas reptiles, fish, and birds hatch their young.
Another unique thing about this cute-looking creature is that it carries a deadly poison. It would be very unlikely that platypus poison could prove fatal to a human, but it can kill many other creatures that are only a bit smaller than us. If a platypus were to stick you with its poisonous spur, the pain would be severe and hospitalization might be necessary.
The weirdness doesn't end there. These creatures shut their eyes when they swim underwater, and instead of using sight to find their food, they use electricity. Their bills can sense the electricity in other living bodies and tell them when they have located a bit of prey.
"Platypus" is a perfectly acceptable name, but perhaps an even more fitting one might be the poisonous electric-billed beaverfrog. What do you think? Not bad, huh?
科学家称它为 Ornithorhynchus，而大家所知道的名称则是鸭嘴兽。它的鼻子有如鸭喙，脚上有蹼像青蛙或鸭子，尾巴似海狸，虽然热爱游泳却体覆软毛。这种生物真是自然界里的怪胎。
这种澳洲自然界的怪胎至少可以说是非常独特。它拥有许多不寻常的特性，让我们不禁再三思考应该将它归到哪个物种才对。鸭嘴兽会产卵，这很不寻常，因为它可是哺乳类动物。哺乳类动物都是直接产下后代，而像爬虫类、鱼和鸟类才会孵蛋。
另一个独特的地方是，这种外表可爱的生物身怀剧毒。虽然它的毒不至于置人于死地，却足以杀死只比我们小一点的许多其他生物。要是你被鸭嘴兽的毒爪刺到，那可是痛得不得了，可能还得上医院。
奇怪的还不只这些。它们在水里游泳时会闭上眼睛，而且它们不用眼睛去寻找食物，而是用电流。它们的嘴可以感觉到其他生物体内的电流，并得知是否已锁定猎物。
“鸭嘴兽”这个名字完全让人可以接受，但或许把它们叫做“毒电嘴海狸蛙”更名符其实。你觉得如何？还不赖吧。
