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Police suspected someone was stealing shoes from a children’s school in southwestern Japan.
警方怀疑有人在日本西南部的一所儿童学校偷鞋。
But a security camera caught the thief in action. It was a weasel!
但监控摄像头拍下了小偷的一举一动。原来是一只黄鼠狼！
The small animal with a long body and short legs usually hunts for rats and rabbits.
这种身体长腿短的小动物通常捕食老鼠和兔子。
But this one was hunting for children’s shoes.
但这只却在找童鞋。
After the children’s shoes began disappearing, police put in place three security cameras in the school in Fukuoka in southern Japan.
孩子们的鞋子开始无辜消失后，警方在日本南部福冈的这所学校安装了三个安全摄像头。
Soon after, recorded video showed a weasel with a small shoe in its mouth.
不久之后，录制的视频显示，一只黄鼠狼嘴里叼着一只小鞋子。
“It’s great it turned out not to be a human being,” Deputy Police Chief Hiroaki Inada told The Associated Press recently.
警察局副局长Hiroaki Inada最近对美联社说：“很高兴我们发现偷鞋的不是人。”
Teachers and parents had feared the thief could be a person with mental health problems.
老师和家长担心小偷可能是个有心理健康问题的人。
Japanese often take their shoes off before entering homes.
日本人往往会在进屋前脱鞋。
The shoes that disappeared were all slip-ons the children wore indoors, stored in special spaces near the door.
丢失的鞋子都是孩子们在室内穿的便鞋，放在门边的特殊空间里。
Weasels are known to hide items. People who keep weasels as pets give them toys so they can hide them.
黄鼠狼是出了名的会藏东西。养黄鼠狼当宠物的人会给它们玩具，方便它们把玩具藏起来。
The weasel moved shoes around and took 15 of them before police were called. Six more were taken the following day.
这只黄鼠狼四处移动鞋子，在报警前叼走了15只鞋子。第二天又叼走了六只。
The weasel returned to steal one more shoe. The video of that theft was seen the next day.
之后黄鼠狼又回来偷了一只鞋。第二天就看到了它盗窃的录像。
The shoe-loving weasel only took the white indoor shoes made of canvas, likely because they are light to carry.
这只喜爱鞋子的黄鼠狼只拿了帆布做的白色室内鞋，可能是因为它们携带轻便。
“We were so relieved,” the school’s kindergarten director Yoshihide Saito told Japanese broadcaster RKB Mainichi Broadcasting.
“我们松了一口气，”幼儿园园长齐藤义伟告诉日本广播公司每日新闻广播。
The children got a good laugh when they saw the weasel in the video.
孩子们看到视频中的黄鼠狼时，都哈哈大笑。
Although the stolen shoes were never found, the remaining shoes are now safely behind netting that covers the storage spaces.
虽然被偷走的鞋子下落不明，但剩下的鞋子现在安全地存放在存储空间的网下面。
The weasel, which is believed to be wild, is still on the loose.
这只被认为是野生的黄鼠狼仍然逍遥法外。
I’m John Russell.
我是约翰·罗素。
