A nursery school teacher was delivering a school bus full of kids home one day when a fire truck zoomed past. Sitting in the front seat of the fire truck was a Dalmatian dog. The children started discussing what the dog's duties might be.

"They use him to keep crowds back," said one youngster.

"No," said another, "he's just for good luck."

A third child concluded. "No silly, they use the dogs to find the fire hydrant!"

有一天，一位護理學(xué)校的老師老師正駕駛著坐滿孩子的校車，送他們回家，這時候，一輛消防車呼嘯而過。在消防車的前座上有一只達爾馬提亞犬。于是孩子們開始討論這只狗的職責可能是什么。
“他們用它來讓人們離得遠一點，”一個小孩說到。
“不，”另一個說，“它是用來求好運的。”
這時候第三個小孩說?！皠e傻了，其實他們是想用用這狗來找消防栓的?！?/div>
生詞：
zoom past：呼嘯而過
fire hydrant：消防栓

那為什么會有只小狗坐在消防車上呢？

這是因為遠在十八世紀時代，馬車用作消防車，投入滅火戰(zhàn)斗。狗是馬的天然朋友，當時的消防隊員相信，馬有時看到火災(zāi)會驚慌失措，而往往是狗能使它們安靜下來。因此，消防協(xié)會把狗作為自己吉祥物的標記就不無道理了。