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175.Bring Up Petey
175.訓(xùn)練珀泰
After the first practice game for softball of the year, Harry and his friends went to the circus!
第一場年度壘球練習(xí)賽結(jié)束之后，哈里和他的朋友看馬戲去了。
When Harry yelled at a tiger trainer to do a better job training a wild animal,
可是，當(dāng)哈里大聲嚷嚷要馴虎員在訓(xùn)練野生動物方面多下點兒功夫時，
however, his friends dared him to practice what he preached!
他的朋友問他有沒有種身體力行對他人的教誨！
The next week Harry brought home a baby polar bear!
第二個星期哈里就把一只小北極熊帶回了家！
"It's popular opinion," he said, "that polar bears are untamable!
"大家公認(rèn)，"他說，"北極熊是無法馴養(yǎng)的！
But I've pored over all the books and I'm going to prove them wrong!"
可我鉆研過所有這方面的書，準(zhǔn)備驗證書上的說法是錯誤的！"
Then Harry began to train Petey the Polar Bear! But he didn't use traditional methods.
接著哈里就開始訓(xùn)練這只名叫珀泰的北極熊了！不過他沒有使用傳統(tǒng)方法。
Instead he played pop music for Petey when he did things well, and poured cold water on him if he didn't!
而是在珀泰做對事情時放流行音樂，做錯時往它身上潑冷水！
Practice makes perfect, he said, and soon Petey was listening to a lot of music!
熟能生巧，他說，很快珀泰就能聽懂許多音樂了！
Harry even rewarded Petey with items of pop art!
哈里甚至用一些流行藝術(shù)作品獎勵珀泰！
One time, when Harry brought home an art deco table，Petey went to the bathroom on it because he didn't like it!
有一次，哈里把一張裝飾派藝術(shù)桌拿回家，由于不喜歡，珀泰就踩著它去廁所！
Harry polished that furniture for hours to get the stain off!
哈里花了幾個小時擦這件家具才把上面的痕跡擦掉！
As Petey grew bigger, photographers started to pop up wherever Harry and Petey went!
隨著珀泰越長越大，哈里和珀泰所到之處都會突然出現(xiàn)大批攝影師！
Petey was powerfully built and some people began to fear for Harry's safety!
珀泰身材魁梧，有些人開始擔(dān)心哈里的安全！
But he was prepared for this and Petey got his own room!
但他對這件事有所準(zhǔn)備，珀泰有自己的房間！
Then one night there was a power failure and Petey got out of his room!
后來有天晚上斷電，珀泰從房間跑出來了！
Old Mrs.Wilkenson will never forget seeing Petey in the hallway standing on his hind legs growling because he was lost!
老威爾肯森夫人永遠(yuǎn)不會忘記那一幕，她看見珀泰在走廊里用后腿站立著，由于迷路，它不停地嚎叫著！
But all was forgiven. And Harry proved the books wrong, Petey became a highly trained, although eccentric, performer.
可是一切都得到了原諒。哈里證明了書上所說是錯誤的。珀泰盡管有些古怪但還是成了一個訓(xùn)練有素的表演者。
And he still prefers to listen to pop music!
它仍然喜歡聽流行音樂！
