中英對照讀新聞》Escaped king cobra crawls back to Swedish Terrarium 逃脫的眼鏡王蛇爬回瑞典飼養箱

發生眼鏡王蛇逃脫事件的瑞典斯坎森水族館。（美聯社）

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A venomous 2.2-meter (7 foot) king cobra that escaped from its home in a Swedish zoo has returned back home by itself, bringing a happy ending to over a week-long disappearance saga.

一條2.2公尺（7英尺）長、從瑞典動物園逃離的有毒眼鏡王蛇，已自行返家，為長達一週的失踪傳奇劃下圓滿句號。

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“Houdini, as we named him, has crawled back into his terrarium,” CEO Jonas Wahlstrom of the Skansen Aquarium told the Swedish public broadcaster SVT on Sunday.

週日，斯坎森水族館的執行長喬納斯‧瓦爾斯壯告訴瑞典公共電視台（SVT）：「我們口中的『胡迪尼』（知名逃脫大師）已經爬回牠的飼養箱。」

The deadly snake, whose official name is Sir Vass, escaped on Oct. 22 via a light fixture in the ceiling of its glass enclosure at the aquarium.

這條致命的蛇正式名稱為「瓦斯爵士」，於10月22日經由水族館玻璃外殼天花板上的燈具逃脫。

As a result of an intensive search with X-ray machines, “Houdini” was located earlier this week in a confined space near the terrarium in the insulation between two walls.

園方利用X光機進行密集搜索，本週稍早找出「胡迪尼」的位置，牠身處靠近飼養箱、位於兩堵牆之間絕緣層中的一處密閉空間。

Holes were drilled into the walls where the snake was hiding but the cobra disappeared from the view of the X-ray cameras in the early Sunday. It turned out the snake had given up its freedom ride and crawled back to its terrarium.

蛇藏身的牆壁上被鑽了幾個洞，但這條眼鏡蛇週日稍早從X光攝影機的視野中消失了。原來這條蛇放棄自由行，爬回牠的飼養箱。

新聞辭典

locate：動詞，找出位置。例句：Can you locate your country on a world map?（你能在世界地圖上找出你的國家位置嗎？）

turn out：片語，結果是（尤指出乎意料的結果）。例句：As events turned out, we were right to have decided to leave early.（結果證明，我們當初決定早點離開是正確的。）

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