英國網絡名狗:洗衣服接孩子都精通
His latest TV commercial has been watched a million times on YouTube and voted Advert of the Year, and he has 10,000 friends on Facebook. He is not an ordinary celebrity for another important reason: he has four legs. And he is Harvey - the dog who captured the whole UK's attention.
他的最新廣告視頻在Youtube網站上獲得了百萬點擊量，且被評爲英國“年度最佳廣告”，他在Facebook社交網站上擁有過萬“粉絲”。他不是一位普通的明星，因爲還有一個重要原因：他長有四條腿。他就是引起全英國關注的狗狗“哈維”。
In the advertisement, Harvey is an unwanted mutt longing for a new owner as he waits in a rescue center's kennels. On seeing a young couple, he presses the play button on a short film he has made to demonstrate his extraordinary domestic skills - doing the washing and the ironing, mowing the lawn, cleaning the shoes and windows, cooking, playing chess, fetching the children on the school run and tucking them into bed at night. When the film ends, the couple look down to see that Harvey is sitting waiting for them, suitcase already packed. "Every home needs a Harvey," says the caption. And a superstar is born.
在廣告視頻中，“哈維”是一條在收容所等待新主人的流浪狗。見到一對年輕夫婦到訪，它按下播放鍵，播放自己製作的短片來展示自己超凡的持家本領——不僅會刷鞋、擦玻璃、剪草坪、洗熨衣物，還能陪人下棋、開車接小孩放學、晚上看着他們睡覺。短片播放完畢，這對夫婦低頭再看哈維，只見它已把行李箱收拾好，蹲坐着等待他們把自己領回家。廣告最後打出字幕：“家家需要哈維”。一個超級明星就此誕生。
In real life, Harvey's name is Skyes, who is one of the most successful dogs trained in the Action Stunt Dogs And Animals, a company run by Gill in Oxfordshire. Acturally the seven-year-old's domestic talent is just for show. That Skyes is able to give such a compelling performance may partly be down to the fact that he was once an abandoned pooch himself.
英國《每日郵報》報道稱，在現實生活中，明星“哈維”真名爲“賽克斯”，是其女主人吉爾開設在牛津郡的狗狗及其他動物動作特技公司中的明星狗中的一個。事實上這條七歲狗狗的家政技能只是徒有其表，用作表演而已。而它能表演得如此引人入勝可能部分源於他的本色出演，因爲它曾經也是一條流浪狗。So far, Skyes has starred with Johnny Depp in Sweeney Todd and Pirates Of The Caribbean; been a king's pooch in The Other Boleyn Girl; had a role in Young Victoria, the Duchess, Burke And Hare, not to mention Clash Of The Titans and Wolfman.
截止目前爲止，賽克斯曾在《理髮師陶德》和《加勒比海盜》中與約翰尼 德普合作；在《另一個波琳家的女孩》中扮演國王的愛犬；出演《年輕的維多利亞》、《公爵夫人》、《布克和海爾》乃至《諸神之戰》等多部電影。
"He has make-up. They just use ordinary human make-up. And hair gel, too. Skyes loves the attention," says Gill. "He does get recognized these days and people will come up and say: 'Do you know, that dog looks just like Harvey in the TV commercial.' They give him a pat."
“他也化妝的。他們給他用那些人們常用的化妝品，還有髮膠。賽克斯喜歡自己受人關注，”吉爾說道。“他這些天總是被人認出來，人們會走上前來說：‘看哪，這狗長得真像廣告裏的那個哈維，’然後拍拍它。”
