365个英语简短小故事- 46. Law and Order in LA?
时间：2018-12-31 作者：英语课 分类：365个英语简短小故事
They say that Los Angeles is changing. In the past two weeks, a young woman was shot, and then her body was dropped off on a sidewalk and set on fire. This happened in broad daylight in a nice neighborhood. Another young woman's body was found lying in a dumpster. The decomposed 1 body of another young woman was found in a park.
An 8-year-old girl was standing 2 with her mom in the kitchen when a bullet from a gang member's gun killed her. The little girl and her mom had just arrived in America. The gang member was shooting at other gang members in the street outside. A hospital van driver pushed a paraplegic out of the van onto a Skid 3 Row sidewalk and drove off. A mentally ill patient in a nursing home was slapped repeatedly by a staff member. The staff member's buddy 4 took a cell phone video of the assault. It showed the staffer laughing as the patient cried.
A local TV station reporter went to a huge produce warehouse 5 and filmed a worker urinating on a platform right next to boxes of fresh lettuce 6. Rats were shown walking throughout the warehouse and nibbling 7 on the produce. Every day, this produce is distributed to hundreds of unsuspecting restaurants and supermarkets in Los Angeles. LA is changing, all right - for the worse.
- A liquid is decomposed when an electric current passes through it. 当电流通过时，液体就分解。
- Water can be resolved [decomposed] into hydrogen and oxygen. 水可分解为氢和氧。
- After the earthquake only a few houses were left standing.地震过后只有几幢房屋还立着。
- They're standing out against any change in the law.他们坚决反对对法律做任何修改。
- He braked suddenly,causing the front wheels to skid.他突然剎车，使得前轮打了滑。
- The police examined the skid marks to see how fast the car had been travelling.警察检查了车轮滑行痕迹，以判断汽车当时开得有多快。
- Calm down,buddy.What's the trouble?压压气，老兄。有什么麻烦吗？
- Get out of my way,buddy!别挡道了，你这家伙！
- We freighted the goods to the warehouse by truck.我们用卡车把货物运到仓库。
- The manager wants to clear off the old stocks in the warehouse.经理想把仓库里积压的存货处理掉。
- Get some lettuce and tomatoes so I can make a salad.买些莴苣和西红柿，我好做色拉。
- The lettuce is crisp and cold.莴苣松脆爽口。