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A young girl whose lemonade stand was robbed of $17.50 chased the suspect to a nearby home and called police, who spent nearly an hour trying to coax the man into surrendering.

一名年輕女孩在她的檸檬汁攤位被搶了17.50美元後，追趕嫌犯到附近一處住宅，接著打電話報警。警方花了約莫一小時才把這名男子哄出來自首。

"The guy came up and was, like, ’Give me your money,’" said 12-year-old Dominique Morefield, who was running the lemonade stand with a group of friends. "I was shocked. It was just my immediate reaction to chase after him."

「那人走過來就說『把錢給我，』之類的話，」與一群朋友一起經營這個檸檬汁攤位的12歲的多米妮克．莫菲爾說。「我很震驚，當下的反應就是追著他。」

Dominique dashed after the man who ran into a house, and then she called police. Officers eventually persuaded Steve Tryon, 18, to come outside after 45 minutes and arrested him on a preliminary felony charge of robbery.

多米妮克猛追這名跑進屋子裡的男子，然後打電話報警。員警最後花了45分鐘說服18歲的史蒂夫．泰森走出屋外，並以初級重罪的罪名將之逮捕。

"I didn’t think anyone would come up to a lemonade stand and steal. That’s really low," 12-year-old Fred Erstine said.

「我真沒想到會有人出現在檸檬汁攤位來偷錢。這很沒品，」12歲的佛瑞德．厄斯汀說。

The kids said they would continue to sell lemonade, but with an adult’s supervision.

這些孩子們說，他們會繼續賣檸檬汁，但會有一名大人在旁監督。

新聞辭典

stand：名詞，展示欲販售的食物的攤位、亭子、棚子或櫃檯。

rob：動詞，搶劫；使剝奪；名詞，robbery，搶劫；robber，搶奪者。相關片語，rob the cradle，老牛吃嫩草；指跟比自己年輕非常多的對象談戀愛或者發生性關係。例句：I think she’s robbing the cradle; she’s 15 years older than her boyfriend.（我覺得她老牛吃嫩草；她比她男友大15歲。）

chase after：片語動詞，尾隨追趕；追求。