Guangzhou university students keep pets on campus

时间：2007-03-16 07:48:05

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Chinanews, Guangzhou, March 15 – With the beginning of the new semester, many university students in Guangzhou have returned to campus with their pets, including hamsters, lizards1 and even snakes.

 

Nowadays, more and more college students in Guangzhou have taken to keeping pets on campus, although the school authorities do not encourage them to do so..

 

Ming, a student of Guangzhou College of Arts, is called “the snake boy”, as he keeps 10 pet snakes at a time. Ming used to keep lizards and scorpions2, too. However, he felt that he couldn't afford the time to take care of all of them, so he dispensed3 with his lizards and scorpions, leaving only 10 small snakes.

 

“Nine of them are from abroad, and it cost me some 6,000 yuan to buy all of them,” said Ming. “But I thought it was worth it. I love them, especially when they move over my fingers. It’s really refreshingly4 cool.”

 

Pet shops in the university town in Guangzhou are doing pretty good business. “The most popular pets are turtles and hamsters, as they are small in size and are easy to be taken care of in dorms,”said the owner of a pet shop.

 

"The students must keep a balance between taking care of pets and their studies, and they should be aware of possible health risks of keeping pets, too," said Zhang, a teacher of South China Normal University.

 
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1 lizards 9e3fa64f20794483b9c33d06297dcbfb     
n.蜥蜴( lizard的名词复数 )
参考例句：
  • Nothing lives in Pompeii except crickets and beetles and lizards. 在庞培城里除了蟋蟀、甲壳虫和蜥蜴外，没有别的生物。 来自辞典例句
  • Can lizards reproduce their tails? 蜥蜴的尾巴断了以后能再生吗？ 来自辞典例句
2 scorpions 0f63b2c0873e8cba29ba4550835d32a9     
n.蝎子( scorpion的名词复数 )
参考例句：
  • You promise me that Black Scorpions will never come back to Lanzhou. 你保证黑蝎子永远不再踏上兰州的土地。 来自电影对白
  • You Scorpions are rather secretive about your likes and dislikes. 天蝎：蝎子是如此的神秘，你的喜好很难被别人洞悉。 来自互联网
3 dispensed 859813db740b2251d6defd6f68ac937a     
v.分配( dispense的过去式和过去分词 )；施与；配（药）
参考例句：
  • Not a single one of these conditions can be dispensed with. 这些条件缺一不可。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
  • They dispensed new clothes to the children in the orphanage. 他们把新衣服发给孤儿院的小孩们。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
4 refreshingly df69f8cd2bc8144ddfdcf9e10562fee3     
adv.清爽地，有精神地
参考例句：
  • Hers is less workmanlike than the other books and refreshingly unideological. 她的书不像其它书那般精巧，并且不涉及意识形态也让人耳目一新。 来自互联网
  • Skin is left refreshingly clean with no pore-clogging residue. 皮肤留下清爽干净，没有孔隙堵塞残留。 来自互联网

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