紐約警察寒夜爲流浪漢送鞋 溫暖照片感動網友大綱
NEW YORK — A tourist’s snapshot of a New York City police officer giving new boots to a barefoot homeless man in Times Square has created an online sensation.
紐約——一名遊客所拍下的一張照片在網上引起了轟動，照片中一位紐約警官爲一位赤腳的流浪漢穿鞋。
Jennifer Foster, of Florence, Ariz., was visiting New York with her boyfriend on Nov. 14, when she came across the shoeless man asking for change in Times Square.
來自亞利桑那州佛羅倫薩的詹妮弗-福斯特11月14日正與男友在紐約遊玩，恰巧遇到了在時代廣場行乞的赤腳流浪漢。
As she was about to approach him, she said the officer — identified as Larry DePrimo — came up to the man with a pair of all-weather boots and thermal socks on the frigid night. She recorded his generosity on her cellphone.
她說當時她正準備靠近這個流浪漢，卻看到了一位警官（後來被證實名叫拉里-德普里默）帶着一雙全天候靴子與保暖襪子上前走近流浪漢。她用手機記錄下了這位警官的慷慨之舉。
It was posted Tuesday night to the NYPD’s official Facebook page and became an instant hit. More than 410,000 users “liked” it as of Thursday evening, and more than 100,000 shared it.
週二晚間，這張照片被放在了紐約警署的Facebook主頁，並迅速在網上引起轟動。當晚超過41萬名用戶“頂”了這張照片，並有超過10萬人分享。
Thousands of people commented, including one person who praised him as “An officer AND a Gentleman.” The photo shows the officer kneeling beside the man with the boots at his feet. A shoe store is seen in the background.
數千名網友發表了自己的評論，其中有一人讚揚他：“一名警官，更是一名紳士。” 照片上，這位警官單膝跪在流浪漢身邊，腳邊放着一雙靴子，背景則是一家鞋店。
The NYPD Facebook page on Thursday posted a comment from DePrimo saying, “I didn’t think anything of it,” and updated it with a photo of DePrimo taken in 2011.
紐約警署的Facebook主頁週四更新了來自德普里默的評論，“我完全沒有想太多，” 主頁上還更新了一張德普里默警官在2011年拍的照片。
“I have these size 12 boots for you, they are all-weather. Let’s put them on and take care of you,” Foster quoted DePrimo as saying to the homeless man.
“我有一雙12碼的靴子給你，一年四季都可以穿。穿上它們，照顧好自己，” 福斯特引用了德普里默對流浪漢說的話。
She wrote: “The officer squatted down on the ground and proceeded to put socks and the new boots on this man. The officer expected NOTHING in return and did not know I was watching.”
她寫到：“這位警官蹲在地上，爲流浪漢穿上襪子和一雙新的靴子。他不求絲毫回報，也不知道我正看着他。”
Foster, who is a dispatch manager at the Pinal County Sheriff’s Office, said she’s worked in law enforcement for 17 years and has never been more impressed.
福斯特是亞利桑那州皮納爾縣治安辦公室的一名發行主管，她說她在法律部門工作了17年，從未遇到這樣令人動容的事。
“His presentation of human kindness has not been lost on myself or any of the Arizona law enforcement officials with whom this story has been shared,” Foster wrote on Facebook. She said she never got the officer’s name.
“他所展現的人性一直都存在於我與我的同事們，也因此這個故事得以流傳，”福斯特在Facebook上這樣寫到。她說她還不知道這位警官的姓名。
“I was just doing my job,” DePrimo told reporters later Thursday. When asked about spending his own money on the boots, DePrimo said, “You just don’t think about things like that.”
“我只是在例行公事，” 德普里默上週四在採訪中回答道。當問及他用自己的錢去買靴子的問題時，他說道，“就是根本不會想到這些事情。”
He told The New York Times that he keeps the receipt for the boots in his vest to remind him “that sometimes people have it worse.”
他對《紐約時報》記者表示之後他一直保存着那雙靴子的發票，提醒自己“這世上還有更苦難的人。”
