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The tiger is a giant cat. His body is nearly covered with black stripes.
老虎像只巨大的貓。它的身上長有黑色條紋。
Unlike the lion, he runs so fast that the swiftest horse can not overtake him.
和獅子不同的是，它跑得很快， 連跑得最快的馬也趕不上它。
He goes over the ground by making bounds or springs, one after another.
它一次接一次地跳躍飛奔，越過大地。
By night, as well as by day, the tiger watches for his prey.
在夜裡，和白天一樣，老虎守候著它的獵物。
With a frightful roar, he will seize a man, and carry him off.
隨著一聲可怕的大吼，它可以抓住一個人，並致他於死。
Have you ever thought what use whiskers are to cats?
你想過貓是如何使用其鬍鬚的嗎？
Lions have great whiskers, and so have tigers and all other animals of the cat kind.
和老虎及其他貓科動物一樣，獅子也有很長的鬍鬚。
Whenever you find an animal with whiskers like the cat's, you may be sure that animal steals softly among branches and thick bushes.
一旦你找到了一隻長著和貓一樣的鬍鬚的動物， 你可能會發現，他們常常安靜地藏在樹枝和茂密的灌木叢裡。
By the slightest touch on the tiger's whiskers, he knows when there is anything in his road.
藉助鬍鬚上輕微的觸覺，老虎能知曉何時會有東西出現在他的周圍。
A few years ago, some English officers went out to hunt.
幾年前，一些英國官員外出打獵。
When coming home from their day's sport, they found a little tiger kitten.
當他們結束白天的狩獵回家時，他們發現了一隻小老虎。
They took it with them and tied it, with a collar and chain, to the pole of their tent.
他們把它捉住，用衣帶和鎖鏈綁在帳篷的杆子上，
It played about, to the delight of all who saw it.
被所有看到它的人戲弄。
One evening, just as it was growing dark, they heard a sound that frightened them greatly.
一天夜裡，他們聽到了一陣令他們十分恐懼的聲音。
It was the roar of a tiger.
那是老虎的吼聲。
The kitten pulled at the chain, and tried to break away.
小老虎正在掙脫鎖鏈，試圖逃跑。
With a sharp cry, it answered the voice outside.
一陣急促的叫聲過後，外面傳來了應和聲。
All at once, a large tigress bounded into the middle of the tent.
突然，一隻大母老虎跳進帳篷中。
She caught her kitten by the neck, and broke the chain which bound it.
它用脖頸吻了吻她的孩子，撕開了綁著的鎖鏈。
Then turning to the door of the tent, she dashed away as suddenly as she had come.
然後，它轉身回到帳篷門口，和來時一樣迅速地跑掉了。
虎（學名：Panthera tigris ；英文名：Tiger）： 大型貓科動物；毛色淺黃或棕黃色，滿身黑色橫紋；頭圓、耳短，耳背面黑色，中央有一白斑甚顯著；四肢健壯有力；尾粗長，具黑色環紋，尾端黑色。
老虎是典型的山地林棲動物，由南方的熱帶雨林、常綠闊葉林，以至北方的落葉闊葉林和針闊葉混交林，都能很好的生活。在中國東北地區，也常出沒於山脊、矮林灌叢和巖石較多或礫石塘等山地，以利於捕食。
虎常單獨活動，只有在繁殖季節雌雄才在一起生活。無固定巢穴，多在山林間遊蕩尋食。能遊泳，不會爬樹。由於林區開發、人口激增，過去偏遠地區都已發展為村鎮，虎亦常到林區居民點附近覓食。虎多黃昏活動，白天多潛伏休息，沒有驚動則很少出來。虎的活動範圍較大，在北方日尋食活動範圍可達數十公裡；在南方西雙版納因食物較多則活動距離較短。