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UPS driver Ryan Arens was making his rounds near a pond in Bozeman, Montana, when he heard an unearthly sound.
聯合包裹的司機瑞恩·阿倫斯在蒙大拿州波茲曼的一個池塘附近送貨時，聽到了一個奇怪的聲音。
“Like a cry for help,” he told thedodo.com, a website for animal lovers.
他對動物愛好者網站thedodo.com說：“那聲音就像在呼救。”
It was December 2018, and about 15 feet from the frozen banks was the source of that cry—
那是2018年12月的一天，哭叫聲是從距冰封的河岸15英尺的地方傳來的。
a half-submerged brown-and-white wirehaired hound, struggling to cling to a thin layer of ice.
一只半浸在水里的棕白色獵犬，掙扎著抓住一層薄薄的冰面。
How she got there no one knows, but an elderly man was already on the scene, determined to save her.
沒人知道她是怎么到那里的，但是一位老者已經過去，決定要救她。
He’d entered the pond in a rowboat and was hacking away at the ice with a rock to create a path to the dog.
他是乘小船進入池塘的，正在用一塊石頭鑿開冰面，為狗開辟一條路。
It was slow going, and Arens, 44, thought he stood a better chance.
老者速度很慢，44歲的阿倫斯覺得自己有更大的機會。
“Animals are my weakness,” he told the Great Falls Tribune,
他告訴《大瀑布論壇報》，“動物們是我的弱點。”
explaining why he stripped down to his boxers and socks, even though the temperature was in the 30s, and commandeered the rowboat.
所以，即使當時氣溫只有零下30多攝氏度，他還是脫下衣服，只穿平角褲和襪子，征用了小船。
His heart thumping, Arens slid closer to the dog and used the other man’s rock to smash away at the ice.
阿倫斯的心怦怦直跳，他滑行到狗身邊，用另一個人的石頭砸開冰面。
He gave one strong heave too many and slipped off the boat, crashing into 16 feet of frigid water.
他用力一甩，就滑下了船，撞進了16英尺深的冰冷的水中。
He resurfaced in time to see the dog going under.
他重新浮出水面時，正好看見狗沉了下去。
Using nervous energy to keep warm, he swam about five feet toward her, grabbed hold of her collar, and pulled her to the ice.
阿倫斯用緊張的能量取暖，向她游了大約五英尺，抓住她的項圈，把她拉到冰上。
He then boosted the dog into the boat and slid it back to the shore,
然后他把狗抬到船上，把船滑回岸邊，
where anxious bystanders carried the dog to the home of the rowboat owner, a retired veterinarian.
焦急的旁觀者把狗帶到船主的家里，他是一名退休的獸醫。
Once in the house himself, Arens jumped into a warm shower with the dog until they both defrosted.
一進屋，阿倫斯就和狗一起洗了個熱水澡，直到解了凍。
A few more minutes in the pond, the vet told Arens, and she would have likely suffered cardiac arrest.
獸醫告訴阿倫斯，在池塘里再待幾分鐘，她可能就會心臟驟停。
The next day, Arens was back working the same neighborhood when the dog’s owner came over to thank him for saving Sadie.
第二天，阿倫斯又回到原來的社區工作，這時狗的主人過來感謝他救了賽迪。
“Would you like to meet her?” he asked. He opened the door to his pickup, and Sadie bolted out.
“你想見見她嗎？””他問道。他打開他的小貨車的門，賽迪沖了出來。
She made a beeline for Arens, leaping on him and bathing him in wet kisses.
她徑直向阿倫斯跑去，跳到他身上，用濕吻把他吻得渾身濕透。
That special delivery, says Arens, “was the highlight of my UPS career.”
阿倫斯說，那次特別的快遞“是我在UPS工作的高光時刻。”
