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2202124  Introduction to Translation

Fiction (English-Thai) Discussion

จงแปลเรื่องแต่งต่อไปนี้เป็นภาษาไทย

It was 7 minutes after midnight. The dog was lying on the grass in the middle of the lawn in front of Mrs. Shears’s house. Its eyes were closed. It looked as if it was running on its side, the way dogs run when they think they are chasing a cat in a dream. But the dog was not running or asleep. The dog was dead. There was a garden fork sticking out of the dog.

I decided that the dog was probably killed with the fork because I could not see any other wounds and I do not think you would stick a garden fork into a dog after it had died for some other reason, like cancer, for example, or a road accident. But I could not be certain about this. I went through Mrs. Shears’s gate, closing it behind me. I walked on to her lawn and knelt beside the dog.  I put my hand on the dog. It was still warm. I stroked Wellington and wondered who had killed him and why.

I pulled the fork out of the dog and lifted him into my arms and hugged him. He was leaking blood from the fork holes. I had been hugging the dog for 4 minutes when I heard screaming. I looked up and saw Mrs. Shears running toward me from the patio. She was shouting, “What the heck have you done to my dog?” “Let go of the dog,” she shouted.[1]

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