You Stink!

You stink. Written by Kira Fried.

你臭烘烘的。 作者：基拉·弗里德

Nobody likes you. Imagine that you are a four -legged animal about the size of a cat. You have short legs and a long bushy tail. Your soft black fur has long white stripes. You are a beautiful animal, but nobody wants to be your friend. Why not? You're a skunk and you stink. Anyone who smells you or gets sprayed by you never forgets it.

没人喜欢你。 想象一下你是一种四条腿的动物，体型和猫差不多大。 你长着短短的腿和一条毛茸茸的长尾巴。 你柔软的黑色皮毛上有长长的白色条纹。 你是一种很漂亮的动物，可没人愿意和你做朋友。 为什么呢？ 因为你是臭鼬，你臭烘烘的。 只要闻到过你的气味、或者被你喷过的家伙永远都忘不了那味儿。

You and your smelly cousins live in many parts of North and South America. Striped skunks, your kind, are the skunks most people know about. Hooded skunks look like you, but more of their fur is white. Hog -nosed skunks look like hooded skunks with long noses. Spotted skunks have white spots or short stripes.

你和你臭烘烘的同类们生活在南北美洲的很多地方。 你所属的条纹臭鼬，是大多数人最熟悉的臭鼬品种。 冠臭鼬长得和你很像，但它们的白色皮毛占比更多。 猪鼻臭鼬长得像长了长鼻子的冠臭鼬。 斑臭鼬身上长着白色斑点或者短条纹。

What kind of animal? You are a mammal. This large group also includes whales, bears, deer, mice, and many other animals. Like other mammals, you have a backbone and hair, and your babies are born live. The mammals on this page are some of your closest relatives.

你属于哪类动物呢？ 你是哺乳动物。 这个大家族还包括鲸鱼、熊、鹿、老鼠， 还有很多其他动物。 和其他哺乳动物一样，你有脊椎、长着毛发， 而且你的宝宝是胎生的。 这一页上的哺乳动物都是你的近亲哦。

Like many of your relatives, you like to eat both animals and plants. More than half of your food is insects. You also like to eat worms, frogs, rodents, lizards, snakes, birds, and eggs. Some of your favorite plants are grass, leaves, nuts, and berries.

和很多近亲一样，你既吃动物也吃植物。 你吃的食物里有一多半都是昆虫。 你还喜欢吃蠕虫、青蛙、啮齿动物、蜥蜴、蛇、鸟类和鸟蛋。 你最喜欢的植物有草、叶子、坚果和浆果。

Why you stink. You have a secret weapon to keep enemies away. You only use it after you try everything else. First, you stamp your feet if an enemy comes close. Then you hiss and growl. If the enemy doesn't leave, you raise your tail and arch your back. You try to look bigger to scare the enemy.

你为什么臭烘烘的呀？ 你有一件能赶跑敌人的秘密武器。 你试过所有其他办法没用之后，才会用上它。 首先，如果敌人靠得近，你会使劲跺脚。 然后你会发出嘶嘶声，低声吼叫。 要是敌人还不走， 你就会翘起尾巴，拱起后背。 你要让自己看起来更大只，把敌人吓跑。