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進入《中英對照讀新聞》Mythical beast in Texas is just a coyote／德州的神秘野獸只是一頭土狼
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The results are in：The ugly, big-eared animal found this summer in southern Texas is not the mythical, bloodsucking chupacabra. It’s just a plain old coyote.
結果出爐了︰今夏在南德州發現的醜陋、大耳動物不是神秘的吸血怪物「卓柏卡布拉」。牠只是一頭相當老的土狼。
Biologists at Texas State University announced they had identified the hairless doglike creature. KENS-TV of San Antonio provided a tissue sample from the animal for testing.
德州州立大學的生物學家宣布，他們已鑑定出這頭像狗的無毛生物。聖安東尼奧的KENS-TV提供該動物的組織樣本以供化驗。
"The DNA sequence is a virtually identical match to DNA from the coyote," biologist Mike Forstner said. "This is probably the answer a lot of folks thought might be the outcome. I, myself, really thought it was a domestic dog, but the Cuero Chupacabra is a Texas Coyote."
「DNA序列幾乎與土狼的完全吻合， 」生物學家弗斯特納說。「這可能是許多人之前認為的可能答案。我自己以為牠會是一頭家犬，但奎洛這隻卓柏卡布拉是德州土狼。」
Phylis Canion and some of her neighbors discovered the 40-pound bodies of three of the animals in July outside her ranch in Cuero, 90 miles southeast of San Antonio.
菲莉絲．卡尼恩與鄰居7月間在她位於奎洛的農場外發現3隻重40磅的動物屍體，奎洛位於聖安東尼奧東南部90英里。
Canion said she saved the head of the one she found so she could get to the bottom of its ancestry through DNA testing and then mount it for posterity.
卡尼恩指出，她保留其中一個頭，以便做DNA測試，弄清楚其血統，然後將之製成標本，留給子孫後代。
Chupacabra means "goat sucker" in Spanish, and it is said to have originated in Puerto Rico and Mexico.
卓柏卡布拉西班牙文意為「吸羊血者」，據說其最早出現在波多黎各與墨西哥。
新聞辭典
the results are in︰in在此當副詞，有到達、來臨、時髦等意。如 The winter is in at last.（冬天終於來了。）
get to the bottom of ︰釐清真相。No one has ever really got to the bottom of this problem.（未曾有人真正將這個問題弄個水落石出。）
mount︰此處指製作標本，也有進行…活動之意，如 mount a massive demonstration（舉行大規模示威）。
