导盲犬的一天短文★★★★★
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Every morning a guide dog puts on its work coat and takes its owner out of the house.
每天早上，一只导盲犬穿上它的工作背心，带主人出门。
It knows about forty words, and it learns the road to the shop, the bank and the park.
它认得四十来个词，还认得去商店、银行和公园的路。
People often want to touch a working dog. The owners say no, and they are right to say it.
人总想摸一摸正在干活的狗。主人会说不行，而且他们说得对。
A dog that stops to play cannot see the step in front of you, and one step is enough to fall.
一只停下来玩的狗看不见你前面那级台阶，而一级台阶就够摔一跤。
When the owner is ill or tired, the dog must stay calm and walk at the same slow speed.
主人不舒服或者累了的时候，狗还得稳住，按原来那个慢速度走。
This is hard for a young animal. For that reason many dogs leave the work after six or seven years.
这对一只年轻的动物很难。所以很多狗干到六七年就退下来了。
Then they live on a sofa with the same family, and nobody asks them to think about the road again.
之后它们和同一家人一起躺在沙发上，再没有人要它去想路的事。
I think about that last part more than the clever one: a working life that ends at home.
最后这一段我比它聪明那段想得更多：一份工作，结束在家里。