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Australian 'Bear Grylls' koala hit by car and survives

老翟点评：

看看这只顽强的小考拉是如何幸存下来的！

Bear Grylls：英国著名的主持人，他的荒野求生相信大家都看过吧。

A koala in Australia has been dubbed "Bear Grylls" after it was hit by a fast-moving car and survived when it got wedged in the car's front grill.

老翟点评：

dub: give a nickname on..

wedge:名词表示楔子。动词表示楔进。

这里表示这些顽强的考拉被高速行驶的汽车撞击，然后被嵌在了汽车的前挡风网上，居然还是幸存了下来。

Loren Davis was driving at 100km/h (62mph) on an expressway in Adelaide on Tuesday when she hit the koala as it was crossing the road.

Ms Davis only discovered what had happened to the animal when she reached home and inspected her car.

The koala only had minor abrasions and will be released into the wild soon.

老翟点评：

minor abrasion：小小的擦伤。这个小考拉真的挺幸运的，被行驶在100公里的汽车撞了，居然只有小小得擦伤。

minor：不严重的，少数的。名词形式是minority，表示少数派，少数人。

"We're calling him Bear Grylls," said Ms Davis, whose choice of nickname was inspired by the British survival expert and television presenter.

老翟点评：注意这里的whose引导的非限定性定语从句。这个从句修饰的先行词是Davis，whose 引导从句时，后面需要加名词作为从句的主语，后面要加完整的句子成分（谓语+宾语，或者系词+表语）。

此处有一个阅读技巧，就算文章开始的时候大家不知道谁是Bear Grylls，现在也应该知道了，因为该句介绍了Bear Grylls, he is the British survival and television presenter.

Koalas, which are often mistaken for bears, are in fact marsupials.

老翟点评：Marsupials: 有袋动物

'Lucky koala'

Ms Davis told reporters that she had been driving down a dark stretch on the expressway and only saw the koala when her headlights illuminated it.

老翟点评：Stretch：用作名词表示延展性，这里表示漫长的路上。用作动词表示延伸，延展。

I got up and stretched.

The beach stretches up to one milealong the coast.

She said she could not change lanes nor brake because of traffic next to her and behind her, and had "no choice but to hit the koala".

She later pulled to one side to check but could not see the koala anywhere.

Ms Davis drove to her home about 10km away, "feeling upset that I'd killed a koala," she told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC).

"Once I got home and pulled into the garage I turned on the light to see the damage. I turned around, saw a koala and just screamed."

The koala was still conscious and growled as Ms Davis approached. She and her fiance finally pushed a blanket underneath its dangling arm so that it could push itself up and out of the grill.

老翟点评：

conscious: 有意识的，神志清醒的

growl: 动物的低声吼叫

dangling: hanging or swing loosely. 想想一个摇摇欲坠的吊灯的感觉。

Animal rescue volunteers later came by and took the animal for treatment. It is expected to be released soon.

Fauna Rescue co-ordinator Merridy Montarello told The Advertiser newspaper in Adelaide that it was a "very, very lucky koala".

"It's because of the particular size of it [that it survived]... It's just sat itself inside the car."

"Bear Grylls" is not the only koala to have a lucky escape on Australia's roads.

Another koala got stuck head-first in a car grill three weeks ago when it was hit on a road in another part of Adelaide, reported ABC. In 2011, a koala named Kenny in Queensland also survived under similar circumstances.

However, not all koalas are so lucky - according to some estimates, about 85% of koalas involved in road accidents may die from their injuries.

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