张祖平

A brave 10-year-old girl is lucky to be alive after successfully fending2 off an alligator that attacked her in Orlando over the weekend.

Little Juliana Ossa knew exactly what to do to save her life.

“I was in the water and there was a mean nine-foot gator biting my leg. It grabbed my leg， I tried hitting it to release me but it didnt work.” The girl said.

The situation happened Saturday at Mary Jane Lake， about 26 miles from Disney World. She was swimming in just a foot of water when the gator attacked.

She not only punched the beast in the nose， Ossa actually shoved her two little fingers into the gators nostrils3 and pried4 his mouth open.

Thanks to what she learned at a nearby alligator park， Gatorland， the young lady knew how to handle herself.

“I used what they taught me at Gatorland， so I put my two fingers up its nostrils and it couldnt breathe and had to breathe from its mouth and then let my leg out，” she said.

“At 10 years old， to have that much courage to do what she did is incredible5. We are so proud of her that she got out of there with as little damage as she got，” said Tim Williams of Gatorland.

If you come in contact with an alligator， expert Jordon Munns told reporters that you should poke him in the eye or the ear and you should make as much noise as possible.

“Gators are afraid of humans，” he said. “If you are screaming and making as much scene as possible while doing these things， there is a good chance the alligator is going to（think）： ‘I am used to eating things that dont fight back， and let go of you.”

The young girl had gotten stitches6 on her leg and is on the mend.

Park officials say theyre keeping the waterfront areas closed this week out of an abundance7 of caution8.

上個周末，奥兰多一个勇敢的10岁女孩成功地避开了一条袭击她的鳄鱼，幸运地活了下来。

小朱利安娜·奥萨很清楚是怎么成功逃生的。

“我当时在水里，一条可恶的9英尺长的鳄鱼咬住了我的腿。它抓住了我的腿，我试着打它想让它放开我，但是没用。”这个女孩说。

周六，在迪斯尼乐园26英里处的玛丽·简湖发生了以上情况。女孩被鳄鱼袭击时正在水深仅为1英尺的水域游泳。

奥萨不仅打了鳄鱼的鼻子，实际上，她还把自己的两个小手指插进了鳄鱼的鼻孔，并撬开了它的嘴巴。

幸亏她在附近的一个名为“鳄鱼乐园”的公园学习过，这位小女士知道如何应对。

“我用了他们在‘鳄鱼乐园教我的方法，所以我把我的两个手指插进了它的鼻孔，它呼吸不了了，只能从嘴巴呼吸，后来，它放开了我的腿。”她说。

“10岁能有这样的勇气真是难以置信。我们为她感到非常自豪，她死里逃生，仅受了轻伤。”鳄鱼乐园的提姆·威廉姆斯说。

专家乔登·芒斯告诉记者，如果你遇到了一条鳄鱼，你应该戳它的眼睛或耳朵，并尽可能地大喊大叫。

“鳄鱼害怕人类，如果你尖叫着勃然大怒，同时你做这些事情，鳄鱼很有可能会（想）：‘我习惯了吃不会反抗的东西，然后就放了你。”

这个小女孩的腿上缝了几针，伤口正在恢复中。

公园管理人员称，为了警示，他们本周关闭了该水域。

Notes：

1. alligator n. 短吻鳄

2. fend v. 挡开，避开

3. nostril n. 鼻孔

4. pry v. 撬动，撬开

5. incredible adj. 难以置信的，惊人的

6. stitch n. 缝合伤口

7. abundance n. 充裕，丰富

8. caution n. 小心，谨慎；警告