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Airline passengers have to deal with a lot these days, getting bumped from flights and losing luggage on top of the general line anxiety that nervous passengers always feel.
現在飛機乘客要處理很多事情，飛機上的碰撞和丟失行李處于緊張乘客總是會感到的焦慮前列。
At the Cincinnati northern Kentucky international airport, miniature horses deliver a calming force two times a month.
在辛辛那提北肯塔基國際機場，小型馬每月提供兩次平靜治療。
Denver and Ruby are two of the thirty-fourth therapy horses brought in from a local farm.
丹佛和魯比是三十四只治療馬中的兩只，來自當地的農場。
They can usually be found in the ticket counter area interacting with travelers.
它們常常在售票區和旅客們互動。
More than thirty airports across the country now have therapy dogs.
全美有超過三十個機場都有治療用的狗。
San Francisco has a therapy pig.
舊金山有一只治療用的豬。
San Jose, California, began a dog program after the terrorist attacks of September the eleventh.
圣何塞和加利福尼亞在911恐怖襲擊之后就開始狗狗治療項目。
Since its beginning, the program has now grown and has twenty-one therapy dogs and a therapy cat.
自從開始，這個項目已經不斷壯大，現在有21只治療狗和一只治療貓。
The animals don't get startled.
這些動物不會受到驚嚇。
They have had hundreds of hours of airport training, so they are used to having luggage and people crowding around them.
它們已進行數百小時的機場訓練，所以它們已經適應了周圍的行李和人群。
These professional animals are probably better at finding their way in the airports than the most frequent of travelers.
這些職業動物可能比其他旅客更容易在機場里面找路。
The passengers often say that seeing animals makes them feel much better and helps them to calm down before a flight.
旅客們經常說，看到動物會讓他們的感覺更好，幫助他們在坐飛機前平靜下來。
This little bit of support can sometimes make a big difference.
這些小的支持有時能產生很大的影響。
Some passengers enjoy the animals so much that they call the airport to schedule flights around their visits.
有些乘客非常喜歡這些動物，所以他們會讓機場把航班安排在有動物出現的前后。
Visits to nursing homes and schools are also a regular part of the horse's schedule.
去療養院和學校也是馬的日程里面常規的部分。
Their owner is already working on a new idea for a therapy animal donkeys.
他們的主人已經在研究新的想法，讓驢子做治療動物。
9. What is special about the Cincinnati northern Kentucky international airport?
9. 辛辛那提北肯塔基國際機場有什么特別之處？
10. What are the trained animals probably capable of doing in an airport?
10. 經過訓練的動物可以在機場里面做什么？
11. What do some passengers try to do?
11. 有些乘客試著做什么？
