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The Rabbit

A man was driving down the highway, and he saw a rabbit hopping across the road. He swerved to avoid hitting the rabbit, but unfortunately the rabbit jumped in front of the car and was hit.

swerve　vi. 1. 突然轉向;轉彎;偏離方向 2. 背離[(+from)]
1. The car swerved to the right. 車子突然轉向右方。
2. I will never swerve from my declared policy on this matter. 在這個問題上我決不會背離我公開宣佈的政策。

The driver, being a sensitive man as well as an animal lover, pulled over to the side of the road, and got out to see what had become of the rabbit. Much to his dismay, it was dead. The driver felt so awful, he began to cry.

dismay 驚慌,沮喪,氣餒[U]
To his dismay, James saw a tear steal down her cheek.
令詹姆士驚愕的是,他看到一顆淚珠從她面頰上悄悄滾落。

A woman driving down the same road came along, saw the man crying on the side of the road, and pulled over. She stepped out of her car and asked the man what was wrong.

pull over　（v.）停車

　　"I feel terrible," he explained. "I accidentally hit this rabbit and killed it."

hit　（v.）撞

The woman told the man not to worry; she knew what to do. She went to her car trunk, and pulled out a spray can. She walked over to the limp, dead rabbit, and sprayed the contents of the can onto the animal.

car trunk　（n.）後行李廂
spray can　（n.）噴霧罐

Miraculously the rabbit came to life, jumped up, waved its paw at the two humans, and hopped down the road. Fifty yards away, the rabbit stopped, turned around, waved again, hopped down the road another fifty yards, waved and hopped another fifty yards.

Miraculously 神奇地;非凡地;出乎意料地
paw（n.）狗、貓的腳
came to life　起死回生
wave　（v.）揮手

The man was astonished. He couldn't figure out what substance could be in the woman's spray can!! He ran over to the woman and demanded, "What was in your can? What did you spray on that rabbit?"
The woman turned the can around so that the man could read the label. It said: "Hair spray. Restores life to dead hair. Adds permanent wave."