我问托尼为什么上班迟到。他告诉我他碰到了倒霉事，他母亲那条宝贝的长卷毛狗因为咽下了一根鸡骨头，他只得送它去看兽医。

I asked Tony why he was late to work and he told me some hard-luck story about having to take his mother’s ageing pet poodle to the vet because it had swallowed a chicken bone.

收到一只长卷毛狗作为她的生日礼物

Got a poodle for her birthday.

一个长着长卷金发的漂亮小孩

a pretty child with golden ringlets