Reader's Digest ３・４月合併号の記事 "Operation: Find Avery " からの引用です。
Witherspoon's case of a missing pet turned into something sinister when, 24 hours after the dognapping, her cellphone buzzed. In menacing texts laced with profanity and misspellings, someone claimed to have Avery and sent a video of the pup in a cage. The conversation was punctuated with a threat to kill the dog and a demand for ransom: "Y'all not getting y'all dog back Y'all payng 1200 no funny's!!'
犬の誘拐事件の話ですね。 "dognapping" は "kidnap" からできた単語に違いありません。
・Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary: to steal (a dog) especially to obtain a reward for its return or to sell to a scientific laboratory
・Collins Dictionary: To dognap a dog is to steal it, usually to get money from its owner in exchange for its return.：The two terriers were dognapped from their owner's car.
さすがに猫の誘拐はないだろうと思いながらも念の為に "catnap" を辞書で見ると、ありました！ でも意味は猫の誘拐ではありません。
・Vocabulary.com: A catnap is a brief rest. If you need a break from studying for the big test tomorrow, you might take a quick catnap on the couch.
Cats are famous sleepers, so it's not surprising that catnap was coined at some point during the 1800s. It describes a snooze that's fairly short and definitely doesn't involve climbing under the covers. You can take a catnap almost anywhere: on the bus, in front of the woodstove, or curled up in a comfortable chair like a cat! Use the word as a verb too: "I think I'll catnap for five minutes, right here in the library."
Witherspoon's case of a missing pet turned into something sinister when, 24 hours after the dognapping, her cellphone buzzed. In menacing texts laced with profanity and misspellings, someone claimed to have Avery and sent a video of the pup in a cage. The conversation was punctuated with a threat to kill the dog and a demand for ransom: "Y'all not getting y'all dog back Y'all payng 1200 no funny's!!'
犬の誘拐事件の話ですね。 "dognapping" は "kidnap" からできた単語に違いありません。
・Merriam-Webster's Online Dictionary: to steal (a dog) especially to obtain a reward for its return or to sell to a scientific laboratory
・Collins Dictionary: To dognap a dog is to steal it, usually to get money from its owner in exchange for its return.：The two terriers were dognapped from their owner's car.
さすがに猫の誘拐はないだろうと思いながらも念の為に "catnap" を辞書で見ると、ありました！ でも意味は猫の誘拐ではありません。
・Vocabulary.com: A catnap is a brief rest. If you need a break from studying for the big test tomorrow, you might take a quick catnap on the couch.
Cats are famous sleepers, so it's not surprising that catnap was coined at some point during the 1800s. It describes a snooze that's fairly short and definitely doesn't involve climbing under the covers. You can take a catnap almost anywhere: on the bus, in front of the woodstove, or curled up in a comfortable chair like a cat! Use the word as a verb too: "I think I'll catnap for five minutes, right here in the library."
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