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Bob Lemons has seen a few shark attack victims in the oceanside Florida town of Boca Raton, but he says last Sunday's incident was a first for him.
鲍勃·雷蒙斯已经在佛罗里达州的博卡拉顿的海滨小镇见到过许多位被鲨鱼袭击的受害者，但他表示，上周日的事件却是他第一次经历的。
Paramedics rushed a beachgoer to the hospital with a two-foot-long nurse shark clinging to her arm after efforts to disengage it failed.
试图让一只两英尺长、紧紧地咬住一位海滩常客手臂的护士鲨松口失败之后，医护人员赶快把受害者连同鲨鱼一起送进了医院。
Lemons, spokesman for the Boca Raton Fire Rescue, said the 23-year-old woman was already out of the water when rescuers reached the beach.
博卡拉顿消防局的发言人雷蒙斯表示，这名23岁的女子在救援队赶到沙滩时已经上岸了。
"She was sitting calmly, seemed to handle it pretty well," Lemons told USA TODAY.
雷蒙斯接受《今日美国》采访时表示：“她冷静地坐在那里，看上去对这件事处理得不错。”
But rescuers could not get the shark to release — even though it had died. So they loaded woman and shark into the ambulance and headed for Boca Raton Regional Hospital.
但救援人员没法让鲨鱼松口--虽然鲨鱼已经死了。所以他们把这名女子和鲨鱼一起送上了救护车，前往博卡拉顿的地区医院。
"This was a unique situation for us," Lemons said. "I haven't heard of something like that before, and I've been here almost 30 years."
“这对于我们来说是非常特殊的情况，”雷蒙斯说。“我从未听说过这样的事，我在这里将近30年了。”
The woman was treated for her injuries and released.
据悉，经过治疗，这名女子已经离开医院了。
Nurse sharks, common off of Florida's coast, are about 1 foot in length at birth and generally grow to about 7 feet long. The maximum length recorded is about 13 feet, according to a National Park Service report on the sharks.
护士鲨是佛罗里达海岸的常见品种，出生时大约1尺长，通常能长到大约7尺。据国家公园服务处的报告显示，最长的记录是13尺。
The Park Service says people swim near nurse sharks every day without realizing it and without incident. "Attacks" are rare and typically are the result of the shark being bothered with a hook, spear or hand.
公园服务处表示，人们每天都是在护士鲨身旁游泳，但通常对此不知情，也没有事故发生。“袭击”很罕见，通常是因为鲨鱼被鱼钩，长矛或手打扰到。
Nurse sharks have razor sharp but small teeth that seldom penetrate deeply: "Holding still reduces damage to both shark and man. Leaving sharks alone is the best tactic," the Park Service says.
护士鲨有剃刀般锋利但很小的牙齿，很少能深入地穿透：“保持静止能够降低对鲨鱼和人类的伤害，而远离鲨鱼是最好的策略，”公园服务处说。
