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cause a heart attack/诱发心脏病/ (y7uf` x~nz3ngb#ng)

A: I recently saw some news with an interestin­g headline. It said “An elderly person died after a dog’s bark caused him to have a heart attack. The family is seeking 400,000 yuan in damages from the owner.”我最近看到一篇标题很­有趣的新闻,写的是“老人被狗叫声诱发心脏­病死亡,亲属向狗主人索赔40 万元。”

(w6 zu#j#n k3nd3o y#pi`n bi`ot! h0ny6uq&de x~nw9n, xi0de sh# l2or9n b-i g6uji3osh8­ng y7uf` x~nz3ngb#ng s@ w1ng, q~nsh^ xi3ng g6uzh^r9n su6p9i s#sh!w3n yu1n.)

B: I feel bad for the dog’s owner. How will they pay that much money?心疼狗主人,要赔那么多钱吗? (y6udi2n x~nt9ng n3g- g6uzh^r9n, y3op9i n3medu4qi1­nma?)

A: I later read the news more carefully and discovered that in the end the court ordered the dog’s owner to only pay 40,000 yuan, because the elderly person had previously had a serious heart disease. After leaving the hospital for only half a month, they then went to work at someone’s house blindly confident they would be ok, so it was a serious mistake on their part.我后来仔细看了新闻,发现最后法院

判狗主人赔4万元,因为这位老人生前患有­严重心脏疾病,出院仅半个月就盲目自­信去别人家里参与劳动,其本身具有严重过失。

(w6 h7ul1i z@x# k3nle x~nw9n, f`xi3n zu#h7u f2yu3n p3n g6uzh^r9n p9is#w3nyu1n, y~nw-i zh-w-i l2or9n sh8ngqi1n hu3ny6u y1nzh7ng x~nz3ng j!b#ng, ch$yu3n j@nb3ng-yu- ji& m1ngm& z#x#n q& bi9r9nji`l@ c`ny^ l1od7ng, q! b0nsh8n j&y6u y1nzh7ng gu7sh~.)

B: So the dog’s bark was just the secondary cause. I feel the dog also wasn’t at fault.所以狗叫声只是死亡的­诱因。我觉得狗也没啥错。

(su6y@ g6uji3osh8­ng zh@sh# s@w1ngde y7uy~n. w6ju9de g6u y0m9i sh1cu7.)

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Illustrati­on: Liu Xidan/GT
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