Well, humans can try to play possum, but they probably don’t do as well as the real thing.

人類也可以嘗試扮演負鼠，但他們的表現可能不如真的負鼠。

When a real possum gets scared, it will flop down and play dead in hopes that the animal

當真正的負鼠受到驚嚇時，它會撲倒在地裝死，希望動物

attacking them will just leave them alone. But, the possum doesn’t do this concisely.

攻擊它們就會放過它們。但是，負鼠的做法並不簡潔。

It is more like they faint. They can’t control it, they just pass out. They stay this way

更像是暈倒。他們無法控制，就這樣暈倒了。他們一直這樣

even when picked up, poked or prodded. Most people will think the animal is really dead

即使被拾起、戳或探查，也是如此。大多數人會認為動物真的死了

and you probably wouldn’t know unless you listened for its heartbeat with a stethoscope.

除非你用聽診器聽它的心跳，否則你可能不會知道。

Now if you want to play possum like the real thing, you need to just pass out, have your

現在，如果你想像真的負鼠一樣玩負鼠遊戲，你需要昏過去，讓你的

lips curled back to show your teeth, foam at the mouth, have your eyes ½ shut and….well,

嘴脣後翹，露出牙齒，口吐白沫，眼睛半閉，....well、

real possums then have a liquid leak out of their anus that smells really foul (like something

真正的負鼠會從肛門裡流出一種液體，聞起來非常臭（就像什麼東西

dead and rotting). Oh yeah, you could probably do most of this

死亡和腐爛）。哦，是的，你也許可以做到大部分這一點

pretty easily, but the foaming of the mouth and the foul smelling liquid, may be taking

很容易，但口吐白沫和惡臭的液體可能是

it a bit too far. So there ya have it; playing possum should

有點過頭了。就這樣，玩負鼠應該

be left to real possums that are experts at it.

而真正的負鼠才是這方面的專家。

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