2025流利阅读学习笔记
The medal awarded Friday lauded the "lifesaving bravery and devotion to duty" for workdetecting land mines in Cambodia. lts recipient: a rat named Magawa.周五颁发的一枚奖牌表彰了得奖者在柬埔寨的地雷探测工作中展现出的“挽救生命的英勇和忠于职守的品质”。奖牌的获得者:-只名叫 Magawa 的老鼠。Not since the fictional Remy of the 2007 Disney-Pixar film "Ratatouille" has a rat done somuch to challenge the public's view of the animals as creatures more commonly seen
scuttling through sewers and the subway: Magawa has discovered 39 land mines and 28pieces of unexploded ordnance, and helped clear more than 1.5 million square feet ofland over the past four years.***
自 2007年由迪士尼皮克斯制作的电影《美食总动员》中虚构的角色 Remy 以来，还是头一回有一只老鼠能够像这样挑战公众对于这种动物的看法--老鼠通常被视作在下水道和地铁中窜
来窜去的动物，而 Magawa 在过去的四年里找出了 39 枚地雷、28 件未爆炸的军火，帮助清理了超过 150 万平方英尺(约 14万平方米)的土地。
More than 5 million land mines have been laid in Cambodia during the internal conflictsin the 1980s and 1990s. Parts of the country are also littered with unexploded ordnancedropped in U.S. airstrikes during the Vietnam War.
在 20 世纪 80 至 90年代的柬埔寨内战期间，有超过500万枚地雷被埋设在那儿。柬埔寨的部分地区还散落着许多未爆炸的军火，均是美国在越南战争的空袭中投掷的。
Magawa is part of the "Hero Rat" initiative, which works across South East Asia andAfrica, training rats to save lives by detecting land mines.
Magawa 是一项名为“英雄小鼠”行动中的一员，该项行动通过训练老鼠来探测地雷、拯救生命。这项行动涉及的地区横跨东南亚和非洲。
Magawa was trained to detect TNT, the chemical compound within explosives. The abilityto sniff out TNT makes him much faster than any person in searching for land mines