美捕獲巨型鱷魚 河中怪獸重一千磅

A family in Alabama are celebrating after catching the largest alligator ever recorded in the state over the mammoth beast, which measured 15-feet long and weighed 1,011.5 pounds, was captured by five members of the Stokes family near took the family ten hours to capture the monster.
阿拉巴馬州的一個家庭正在慶祝週末捕到了州級歷史上最大的一條短吻鱷。它有15英尺長，重1011.5磅，由居住在托馬斯頓附近的斯托克一家五口耗時10小時捕獲。

The hunt started on Friday night and lasted well into Saturday morning. Mandy Stokes said her crew went through the full range of emotions as they first staked the animal, before battling it, then killing it and finally struggling to take it back to shore.
這場捕獵從週五晚上開始，持續到將近週六清晨。曼迪·斯托克說，大家看到這隻巨大的短吻鱷時都十分興奮，在與它搏鬥之前先是把它系在了樁上，然後才殺了它並拖回上岸。

‘He came up just as calm as he could,’ Mandy Stokes said, ‘When I pulled the trigger this time, water just exploded on all of us.’
“它儘可能地表現得非常冷靜，”曼迪說，“當我鬆開扳手時，水花濺了我們一身。”

When they finally got the beast back to dry land, he was so big that he crushed the winch system normally used by Alabama Wildlife and Freshwater Fisheries the end, a backhoe had to be brought in to lift the animal and officially weigh it.
當他們最終把鱷魚拖上岸時，由於它體型過於龐大，直接壓壞了阿拉巴馬野生動物和淡水漁業生物學家專用的絞盤。最後，他們不得不買來一個倒鏟來擡起併爲它正式稱重。

Alligators are the only dangerous-game species that can legally be hunted in the state. The mammoth gator has now been officially named as the largest ever legally harvested in Alabama and it could even be a new world record.
短吻鱷是阿拉巴馬州唯一可以合法捕獵的危險動物。現在，它已被官方承認是阿拉巴馬州合法捕獲的最大的短吻鱷，這也有可能是一項新的世界紀錄。

In June, Safari Club International declared a 14-foot, 8-inch, 880-pound alligator killed in Texas by Justin Wells of Bossier City, La., in 2007 as the new world record.
It isn't clear which metric-length, weight or a combination of both - SCI used to come to its decision.
六月，國際狩獵俱樂部宣佈來自波西爾城的賈斯汀·威爾士2007年在德克薩斯州捕獲的14英尺長，8英寸高，880磅重的爲新的世界紀錄。不過，目前並不清楚是身長、體重各自或者二者的綜合纔是俱樂部判定記錄的標準。

The Stokes' gator measured 70.5 inches around the stomach, 46 inches around the base of the tail and had a 16-inch snout owing his capture and being weighed, his next stop was scheduled to be Ken Owens' Autaugaville taxidermy shop.
斯托克一家捕獲的鱷魚胃部約70.5英寸高，尾部約高46英寸，鼻子則高16英寸。這條短吻鱷的下一站將是肯·歐文的奧塔賈維爾標本商店。