Meet Chester. He's now safely back home with his owner, but a few months ago he went missing for three nights.
这是切斯特。它现在已经安全回家和主人在一起了，但几个月前，它却失踪了三个晚上。
Lea Williams, dog owner
I went for a walk up to a local beauty spot and Chester [was] running about – out of nowhere, two lurchers appeared, attacked him. He got scared and ran off in an unfamiliar1 direction. I can only speak for myself, it's like losing a family member, I would say. My daughter – she didn't sleep for three days. She just thought her pet was gone.
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李·威廉姆斯 狗主人
Meet Chester. He's now safely back home with his owner, but a few months ago he went missing for three nights.
这是切斯特。它现在已经安全回家和主人在一起了，但几个月前，它却失踪了三个晚上。
Lea Williams, dog owner
I went for a walk up to a local beauty spot and Chester [was] running about – out of nowhere, two lurchers appeared, attacked him. He got scared and ran off in an unfamiliar1 direction. I can only speak for myself, it's like losing a family member, I would say. My daughter – she didn't sleep for three days. She just thought her pet was gone.
李·威廉姆斯 狗主人
“我去当地的一个风景区散步，切斯特在四处跑，不知从哪儿冒出来两条大猎狗，袭击了它。它吓了一跳，朝不熟悉的方向逃跑了。我只能谈自己的感受，那就像失去了亲人一样。我女儿当时三天没睡觉。她以为再也见不到自己的宠物狗了。”
The family had almost lost hope until Erica decided2 to offer her services. She uses a drone, worth almost 7,000 pounds, to help find lost dogs by using thermal3 imaging technology.
“我去当地的一个风景区散步，切斯特在四处跑，不知从哪儿冒出来两条大猎狗，袭击了它。它吓了一跳，朝不熟悉的方向逃跑了。我只能谈自己的感受，那就像失去了亲人一样。我女儿当时三天没睡觉。她以为再也见不到自己的宠物狗了。”
The family had almost lost hope until Erica decided2 to offer her services. She uses a drone, worth almost 7,000 pounds, to help find lost dogs by using thermal3 imaging technology.
就在这家人几乎失去希望的时候，艾丽卡决定助他们一臂之力。她用一架价值近7000英镑的无人机，通过热成像技术帮人寻找失犬。
Jacob Tomlinson, BBC correspondent4
The drone is equipped with a hi-tech thermal imaging camera which can detect heat signatures from up to 250 feet [76 metres] in the air. Therefore, when Erica is asked to help out in a search for a dog, she simply turns up to the dog's last known location, sets up the drone and up it goes. Having found more than 160 dogs, it's proved pretty successful.
“无人机配备了高科技热成像摄像头，可以在250英尺(76米)的高空探测到地面的热信号。因此，当艾丽卡被问到能否帮忙寻犬时，她只需要去这条狗的最后已知位置，准备好无人机，让它飞上天空即可。在找到了160多条失犬后，事实证明这个方法相当有成效。”
And it's easy to see why. Can you spot Chester running around these woods? To the naked eye or even a normal drone, it's virtually impossible, but pop the thermal image up and he jumps out, allowing his owner to bring him safely back home.
我们不难看出其中的原因。你能发现在林间奔跑的切斯特吗?对肉眼甚至普通的无人机来说，这几乎是不可能的，但一旦开启热成像功能，切斯特就清晰可见了，这得以让主人把它安全地带回家。
Having saved hundreds of dogs, the method is clearly working. Erica doesn't charge for her services and instead does it for the pleasure of seeing the owners reunited.
这个方法拯救了数百条狗，显然是可行的。艾丽卡不为她所提供的帮助收取费用，能看到狗主人与爱宠团聚就让她感到心满意足了。
Erica Hart, drone owner
I've seen it first-hand what it does to people when they lose dogs, and I know how much it must hurt to them, losing that loved one. It's like winning [the] lottery5 – it's… it is absolutely priceless.
艾丽卡·哈特 无人机的主人
“我亲眼目睹过人们丢失爱犬时有多么伤心，所以知道失去心爱的家中一员的感觉有多么痛苦。能找到走失的爱宠就像中了彩票一样，我觉得这绝 对是无价的。”
Erica's drone has helped create countless6 happy endings and is sure to make many more in the future.
艾丽卡的无人机已经帮助创造了无数的大团圆结局，今后也一定会给更多人带来美满的结局。
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