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0Episode: Luna the Dog Survived a Month in Yellowstone
Subtitle: 狗狗 Luna 在黄石公园生存了一个月
Duration: approximately 5 minutes
Level: B1
PubDate: 2026-10-19
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[Sarah]: Welcome back to Learn English with Podcasts. Today I want to tell you a story. Imagine you are on the vacation of a lifetime, in one of the most famous parks in the world. You leave your dog in a cabin for two hours. When you come back, she is gone.
zh:欢迎回到 Learn English with Podcasts。今天我想给你讲一个故事。想象你正在一生一次的假期里，身处世界上最著名的公园之一。你把狗留在小木屋里两个小时。回来时，她不见了。
[Sarah]: That is what happened to a family from California this September. Their dog is named Luna. She is a 10-year-old Jack Russell terrier, a small white dog with pointy ears and a gray collar.
zh:这就是今年九月一个加州家庭经历的事。他们的狗叫 Luna。她是一只 10 岁的杰克罗素梗，一只白色小狗，尖尖的耳朵，戴着灰色项圈。
[Sarah]: The place was Yellowstone National Park. It was the first national park in the United States. It covers about 3,500 square miles, across Wyoming, Montana, and Idaho.
zh:那个地方是黄石国家公园。它是美国第一座国家公园，占地约 3500 平方英里，横跨怀俄明州、蒙大拿州和爱达荷州。
[Sarah]: Yellowstone is beautiful, but it is also wild. It is home to grizzly bears, wolves, and coyotes. For a small dog, being alone there is very dangerous.
zh:黄石很美，但也很野。那里有灰熊、狼和郊狼。对一只小狗来说，独自待在那里非常危险。
[Sarah]: Luna escaped on September 10. Her family left her in a cabin at Canyon Village with a Do Not Disturb sign on the door. Then they went to see a geyser.
zh:Luna 在 9 月 10 日跑丢了。家人把她留在峡谷村的一间小木屋里，门上挂着"请勿打扰"的牌子。然后他们去看间歇泉了。
[Sarah]: But a housekeeper opened the door anyway. Luna ran out. The staff tried to catch her, and they chased her around the area for more than two hours.
zh:但一名客房服务员还是打开了门。Luna 跑了出去。工作人员想抓住她，在附近追了两个多小时。
[Sarah]: When the family came back, Luna was gone. They searched, but rangers told them the truth. A small dog would probably not survive the cold or the coyotes.
zh:家人回来时，Luna 已经不见了。他们四处寻找，但护林员告诉了他们实情：一只小狗很可能熬不过寒冷，也躲不过郊狼。
[Sarah]: The family went home without her. A few days later, they heard something surprising. People had seen Luna. She was still alive.
zh:家人没找到她就回家了。几天后，他们听到了意外的消息：有人见过 Luna。她还活着。
[Sarah]: They contacted Katie Boucher. She is a volunteer and the president of Norris Ark Training and Recovery Center in Montana. She decided to help.
zh:他们联系了凯蒂·鲍彻。她是志愿者，也是蒙大拿州诺里斯方舟训练与救援中心的负责人。她决定帮忙。
[Sarah]: There is one more thing about Luna. Before she was adopted, she spent her first year living on the streets. She knew how to survive.
zh:关于 Luna 还有一件事。被收养之前，她生命的头一年是在街头度过的。她知道怎么活下来。
[Sarah]: For weeks, people saw her around the park. She crossed roads. She walked through employee housing. She even walked into lodges through the automatic doors.
zh:几个星期里，人们在公园各处看到她。她穿过马路，走过员工宿舍，甚至从自动门走进旅馆。
[Sarah]: And this is the strange part. Luna was retracing her family's steps. She went back to the eateries and lodges they had visited the day before she was lost.
zh:奇怪的地方在这里。Luna 在重走家人的路线。她回到家人迷路前一天去过的餐馆和旅馆。
[Sarah]: So why was she so hard to catch? Because people kept calling her name and chasing her. That made her afraid, and she ran deeper into the park.
zh:那为什么这么难抓到她？因为人们一直喊她的名字、追她。这让她害怕，于是她往公园更深处跑。
[Sarah]: There was another problem. Rescuers could not use food in the trap. Food would attract bears and wolves, the very animals Luna was trying to avoid.
zh:还有另一个问题。救援人员不能在陷阱里放食物。食物会引来熊和狼，而这正是 Luna 想躲开的动物。
[Sarah]: Winter was also coming. The campground and roads were going to close on Monday. Boucher knew this was her last week to search.
zh:冬天也快来了。营地和道路周一就要关闭。鲍彻知道，这是她搜寻的最后一周。
[Sarah]: So they built a live trap. It was a doghouse with a bed of straw and grass. It would hold Luna without hurting her. And instead of food, they used scraps from a T-shirt and a pillowcase from her family.
zh:于是他们做了一个活捕笼。那是一个铺着干草和青草床的小狗屋，能把 Luna 留住又不会伤到她。他们没用食物，而是用了她家人的 T 恤和枕套的碎布。
[Sarah]: On Tuesday, a park employee saw Luna circling the trap. She lay down near it. She was thinking about it.
zh:周二，一名公园员工看到 Luna 在笼子周围转圈。她在旁边趴了下来。她在犹豫。
[Sarah]: On Wednesday morning, at 9 a.m., they found her inside. Luna had survived 35 days in the wild.
zh:周三上午 9 点，他们发现她已经在笼子里了。Luna 在野外生存了 35 天。
[Sarah]: They took her to a veterinarian. She was underweight, but she was alert and in good spirits. Her owner held her during the exam. Boucher said she cried all the way from the park.
zh:他们把她带去看了兽医。她体重偏轻，但很警觉，精神状态不错。检查时，主人一直抱着她。鲍彻说，她从公园一路哭了过来。
[Sarah]: They never used food. They used the smell of home. After 35 days in the wild, Luna walked toward the smell of her family.
zh:他们始终没用食物。他们用的是家的气味。在野外度过 35 天后，Luna 走向了家人的气味。
[Sarah]: That is the story for today. If you have a dog, give her an extra hug. And thank you for listening. See you in the next episode.
zh:这就是今天的故事。如果你有狗，就多抱她一下。谢谢收听，我们下期见。
