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I was eight years old and wasn't aware of all the arrangements being made for our journey as a family to London in 1950. My mother was in great pain and wished to visit specialists in London. My father reluctantly had to sell our property in Queensland. The day before we boarded the ship, Father unwillingly said goodbye to his five-year-old cattle dog, Spider, who was loved by us all. Father's friend Sandy was to be his guardian while we were overseas, as he had been getting to know Spider for many weeks.
我当时八岁,不知道1950年我们全家去伦敦的旅程所做的一切安排。我母亲非常痛苦,希望去伦敦看专家。我父亲不情愿地卖掉了我们在昆士兰的房产。在我们登船的前一天,父亲不情愿地向他五岁的牛头犬Spider道别,它受到了我们所有人的喜爱。我们在海外时,父亲的朋友桑迪将成为他的监护人,因为他已经认识蜘蛛好几个星期了。
Six weeks later, an airletter arrived from Sandy, giving my father the news that Spider had run away just two weeks after we had sailed. Sandy had advertised constantly on ABC radio and other regional newspapers. Despite many“sightings ”, the dog was never found. It seems Spider just kept running and searching for us. As he was cattle dog, my father thought he would be shot or dingo-trapped, because of his appearance. But our family thought that Father held a secret hope that Spider was still alive.
六周后,桑迪发来了一封航空信,告诉我父亲蜘蛛在我们航行两周后就逃跑了。桑迪经常在美国广播公司电台和其他地区报纸上做广告。尽管多次“目击”,这只狗始终没有被发现。蜘蛛好像一直在跑,一直在找我们。由于它是一只牛头犬,我父亲认为它会被射杀或被困,因为它的外表。但我们的家人认为父亲对蜘蛛还活着抱有秘密的希望。
We sailed back to Australia two years later and re-established our home. My father immediately began his own search for Spider. One cold winter's Saturday morning eight months after our return, my father had a call from an elderly lady living on her own on the outskirts of the town. As she told my father on the telephone, it was “just glimpses of a dingo-type dog in the shadows”of her disused tennis court. That was enough for my father to interrupt my homework.
两年后,我们乘船返回澳大利亚,重新建立了我们的家园。我父亲立即开始自己寻找蜘蛛。在我们回来八个月后的一个寒冷的冬天的周六早上,我父亲接到了一位住在城郊的老太太的电话。正如她在电话中告诉我父亲的那样,这“只是在她废弃的网球场的阴影中瞥见一只野狗”。这足以让我父亲打断我的家庭作业了。
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