1. For the descriptions given by people who claimed to have seen the puma were extraordinarily similar.
    因为凡是声称见到过美洲狮的人们所描述的情况竟是出奇地相似。

2. For the puma was often observed at one place in the morning and at another place twenty miles away in the evening.
    因为常常是早晨在甲地发现那只美洲狮，晚上却在20英里外的乙地发现它的踪迹。

3. When reports came into London Zoo that a wild puma had been spotted forty-five miles south of London, they were not taken seriously.
    当伦敦动物园接到报告说，在伦敦以南45英里处发现一只美洲狮时，这些报告并没有受到重视。

4. This puma must have been in the possession of a private collector and somehow managed to escape.
    这只美洲狮谅必是私人豢养的,并且不知怎么跑出来了.

5. The hunt for the puma began in a small village where a woman picking blackberries saw ´a large cat´ only five yards away from her.
    搜寻美洲狮的工作是从一座小村庄开始的。那里的一位妇女在采摘黑莓时的看见"一只大猫"，离她仅5码远，

6. The experts were now fully convinced that the animal was a puma, but where had it come from?
    专家们如今已经完全肯定那只动物就是美洲狮，但它是从哪儿来的呢?

7. The hunt went on for several weeks, but the puma was not caught.
    搜寻工作进行了好几个星期，但始终未能逮住那只美洲狮。

8. Several people complained of ´cat-like noises´ at night and a businessman on a fishing trip saw the puma up a tree.
    有人抱怨说夜里听见"像猫一样的叫声"；一位商人去钓鱼，看见那只美洲狮在树上。

9. Paw prints were seen in a number of places and puma fur was found clinging to bushes.
    人们在许多地方可看到爪印,并可发现美洲狮的皮毛粘附在灌木丛上.

10. Paw prints were seen in a number of places and puma fur was found clinging to bushes.
    人们在许多地方可看到爪印,并可发现美洲狮的皮毛粘附在灌木丛上.