下划线标出的这句话什么意思？

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Two Dogs

ONE SULTRY MOONLESS night, a leopard escaped from a circus and slunk away into the shadows of a city. The chief of police dogs assigned to the case a German shepherd named Plunger and a plainclothes bloodhound named Plod. Plod was a slow, methodical sleuth, but his uniformed partner was restless and impatient. Plod set the pace until Plunger snapped, “We couldn’t catch a turtle this way,” and bounded along the trail like a whippet. He got lost. When Plod found him, half an hour later, the bloodhound said, “It is better to get somewhere slowly than nowhere fast.”

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% s' f2 K2 t7 A1 h  Q; h应该是拟人。police dogs就是相当于狗做police，狗督察把德国牧羊犬Plunger和便衣猎犬Plod派去调查案子。这里的plunger和plod的姓名都对应它们的处事方式。。。

渔夫和妖怪

The chief of police dogs assigned to the case a German shepherd named Plunger and a plainclothes bloodhound named Plod.
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& R2 [: u7 H( }" c+ H9 tThe chief of police dogs assigned [a German shepherd named Plunger and a plainclothes bloodhound named Plod] to the case .
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assign somebody to something 结构，宾语太长，这里调至末尾了。
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0 O' v& }  x  o: S"狗老大把这个案子派给了Plunger和Plod。"
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