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Moving now from bats to bugs -- bed bugs to be precise.
現在將焦點從蝙蝠轉向蟲子，正確來說是床蝨。

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They're tiny little critters that can suck blood from their human victims,
它們是微小的生物，它們會吸受害人類的血，

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and this at some ritzy addresses in New York City.
而且它們曾出現在紐約市一些精品大道上。

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Mary Snow has more on a bug that makes some people stress out big time.
瑪麗‧斯諾帶我們了解這個會讓大多數人抓狂的昆蟲。

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Consider them the vampire of insects, creeping out a lot of people,
想像他們是昆蟲版的吸血鬼，嚇跑了許多人，

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and they're keeping dogs like Champ here very busy in New York.
在紐約，它們讓像小冠這樣的狗狗非常地忙碌。

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We're gonna go find the bees. OK? Find the bees? All right. Let's go.
我們要去找小蟲蟲了。好嗎？找小蟲蟲囉？好囉，走吧。

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Bees are the buzzword for bed bug at the pest control company Champ works for.
「小蟲蟲」在小冠工作的蟲害控制公司是床蝨的行話。

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On a recent job at a senior citizen facility, he picks up a scent.
小冠在養老院最新的工作便是嗅出床蝨的氣味。

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Good boy. Yeah. Show me the bees. Good boy. OK, buddy, come on.
乖孩子。對，告訴我床蝨在哪裡。乖孩子，對，快點。

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When he finds the bee, basically, he finds a scent of a bed bug,
當他發現床蝨，基本上是嗅到床蝨的氣味，

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and there must be a bed bug in here, or either a live bed bug or a viable bed bug egg.
那裡面就一定會有床蝨，不論是活的床蝨或是尚未孵化成床蝨的蟲卵。

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And the scent is emitting out from one of these crevices, and so he picks up on that.
那氣味是從這些裂縫中散出的，而他便是那樣發現的。

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Timothy Wong owns M&M Environment Pest Control
提摩西‧王擁有M&M環境清潔公司，

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and says dogs like Champ cut the time of finding bed bugs from a day to 30 minutes,
他表示像小冠這樣的狗狗將搜尋床蝨的行動從一天縮減至三十分鐘，

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and Wong has had to build a division just for fighting bedbugs.
而他已設立了另一個專門對付床蝨的分部。

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I'd say about five years ago we would probably get about one call for bed bugs,
大約五年前，我想我們可能只會接到一通撲殺床蝨的電話，

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and today we get about probably close to on an average day, about 75 calls just on bed bugs alone.
但現在我們平均一天大約會接到七十五通專門對付床蝨的電話。

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So it's changed a lot.
情況已經大不如前。

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The bloodsuckers have spread far beyond beds, crawling into some ritzy addresses in New York City.
這些吸血蟲已從床舖擴散，爬進紐約市一些奢華地段。

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Although they haven't found any,
雖然他們尚未發現任何一隻床蝨，

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Fifth Avenue's famous Bergdorf Goodman department store acknowledges it's hired a dog to patrol for bed bugs.
但是第五大道著名的波道夫‧古德曼百貨公司已經雇了一條狗巡查床蝨。

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An Abercrombie & Fitch store had to get rid of them,
一間Abercrombie & Fitch必須消滅床蝨的蹤跡，

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and Victoria's Secret says after proactive testing at one of its stores, it had to deal with them.
Victoria's Secret表示在對一間分店進行突擊檢查之後，他們也必須處理這個問題。

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And now so does the Time Warner Center, which houses CNN's New York offices.
而現在CNN紐約辦公室所在的時代華納中心也得處理這個問題。

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And while everyone is trying to get rid of bed bugs, bug expert Louis Sorkin actually welcomes them.
當所有人都想擺脫床蝨時，昆蟲專家路易士‧索爾金反而很歡迎他們。

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You're probably the only person I've known to say you actually like bed bugs.
你可能是我所認識的唯一一位表示你喜歡床蝨的。

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I like them when they're in containers. I wouldn't like them home.
我喜歡在容器裡的他們。我不喜歡在家裡發現他們。

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Sorkin shows us what a bed bug looks like after it's drawn blood.
索爾金向我們展示床蝨吸血後的模樣。

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And to keep his specimens, he allows them to bite him,
為了讓他的樣本存活，他讓它們咬他，

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picking up a container with thousands of them to his arm.
將一個裝滿數以千隻床蝨的容器碰觸他的手臂。

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Do people think you're crazy?
人們會不會覺得你瘋了？

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Some probably do, yeah. But doing this, I am working on their behavior.
是的，有些人可能會這樣認為。但是這樣做我才能研究他們的行為。

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By learning how they do certain things, it actually helps to get rid of them in places.
藉由知道他們如何從事某些行為，這樣才能幫助我們消滅他們。

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After a few minutes, besides his red arm, he shows us how small the bugs are.
幾分鐘之後，除了發紅的手臂，他還讓我們看看這些蟲子是多麼地小。

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As he looks for ways to get rid of them,
當他在尋找擺脫他們的方法時，

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he says for many people, these bugs also leave a psychological mark.
他表示這些床蝨在許多人心理留下許多陰影。

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Every little bite they get or think they get,
他們身上的每個小傷口，或是他們覺得他們身上有些小傷口，

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or every little thing that crawls is a potential bed bug, which then really stresses people out.
或者是會爬的小東西都會他們覺得是床蝨，而這樣的小蟲著實會令人發狂。

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This is a problem across the country,
這是全國都面臨到的問題，

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and one of the things that Louis Sorkin gets asked about is what to do when you're staying in a hotel.
路易士‧索爾金常被問到的一個問題便是當你住進旅館時，有無任何防護措施？

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He advises bringing a flashlight to check the bed, and he says don't only check behind the headboard,
他建議攜帶手電筒檢查床舖，他表示不要只檢查床頭板後，

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but also check the straps on the luggage racks before you put any bags down.
在你要放下任何袋子之前，還要檢查行李架上的帶子。