时间:2018-12-06 作者:英语课 分类:原版英文小故事


英语课

A 20-year-old man, driving under the influence and at excessive speed early yesterday evening along New York Drive, died after clipping another car. Buddy 1 Allen was dead at the scene of the accident. Apparently 2, he was not strapped 3 into his seat belt at the time he collided with a car in front of him.


Allen was doing about 60 mph on the 35 mph street when his SUV overtook and hit a car driven by Steve Frohman. Frohman, a scratch golfer, had just finished an unpleasant round of golf. He said he was doing the speed limit when he happened to look in his rear view mirror and saw a car coming up on him fast.


Certain that he was about to get rear-ended, Frohman managed to get halfway 4 into the adjoining lane. The speeding car hit Frohman’s new sedan, then hit a curb 5, and became airborne. Allen flew out of the car, landing on grass near the base of a light pole. Frohman, braking to a stop, saw Allen land on the grass. But the unthinkable happened. Upside down but also flying through the air, the SUV struck the light pole and dropped straight down, landing squarely on Allen.


Frohman ran over to the SUV. Seeing both of Allen’s feet under the SUV, Frohman tried to rock it back and forth 6 so that it would roll off Allen. Not succeeding, he dialed 911 on his cell phone. Police and paramedics arrived within a few minutes. Frohman was still trying to roll the SUV off the victim when they arrived. The police told him to move back. Four of them rolled the SUV off the dead body. The paramedics did not even check the airway 7; they knew a dead person when they saw one.


One of the police officers congratulated Frohman on his attempt to save Allen.


“I wasn’t trying to save him,” said Frohman. “I was planning to knock his teeth out for damaging my car.”

 



1 buddy
n.(美口)密友,伙伴
  • 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!
2 apparently
adv.显然地;表面上,似乎
  • An apparently blind alley leads suddenly into an open space.山穷水尽,豁然开朗。
  • He was apparently much surprised at the news.他对那个消息显然感到十分惊异。
3 strapped
adj.用皮带捆住的,用皮带装饰的;身无分文的;缺钱;手头紧v.用皮带捆扎(strap的过去式和过去分词);用皮带抽打;包扎;给…打绷带
  • Make sure that the child is strapped tightly into the buggy. 一定要把孩子牢牢地拴在婴儿车上。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • The soldiers' great coats were strapped on their packs. 战士们的厚大衣扎捆在背包上。 来自《简明英汉词典》
4 halfway
adj.中途的,不彻底的,部分的;adv.半路地,在中途,在半途
  • We had got only halfway when it began to get dark.走到半路,天就黑了。
  • In study the worst danger is give up halfway.在学习上,最忌讳的是有始无终。
5 curb
n.场外证券市场,场外交易;vt.制止,抑制
  • I could not curb my anger.我按捺不住我的愤怒。
  • You must curb your daughter when you are in church.你在教堂时必须管住你的女儿。
6 forth
adv.向前;向外,往外
  • The wind moved the trees gently back and forth.风吹得树轻轻地来回摇晃。
  • He gave forth a series of works in rapid succession.他很快连续发表了一系列的作品。
7 airway
n.空中航线,通风口
  • Lay them on their side and ensure the airway is unobstructed.让他们侧躺着,并确保呼吸道畅通。
  • There is a purple airway in London Airport.伦敦机场里有一条皇家专用飞机跑道。
学英语单词
-plated
acerebral
acid receiver
aftermost bearing
anteports
argolamide
back of arch
bandannaed
blank processing
body-sodium activation
bone breaker
braising
bristle up
cassida circumdata
cat-rigged
catalufas
channel rod coupling
concreters
consumer-focused
Coroisânmǎrtin
cryogenized
deceleration area
e.d.
early season rice
electrophotographic printing
empyema
etacrynate
fetch a high price
flower-paintings
french landing
Galatella altaica
galery
Gentele's tests
gintiss
Glutamine-Hydrolyzing
heavycrop
height of fall
hemostases
high -voltage power supply
hits bottom
holonomic constraint
hormone titer
hover pallet
hydroalkoxylation
impact scar
imperial physician
inetrchangeable manufacture
intelligence data handling system
interspecific cooperation
issue-attack ads
keel support
kvaerner
like a bull in a china shop
loran (long-range navigation)
low pressure axial fan
lower-frequencies
mediated digital signature
memorats
methylone
mode-of-participation
multilaboratory
My arse!
optolectronic device
organ of smell (or olfactory organ)
outgoes
pack heat
phaser
pride-of-India
prososmotaxis
pulsating auroral zone
sanduny
scandic
self impinging injector
single site principle
snoter
specific aim
spectroquality
steadful
strong ammonium citrate solution
structure of scientific theory
syncranium
syphilid acniformis
taxideas
teaseller
terraced houses
therapods
tool post grinder
tourtieres
trigonal holosymmetric class
trueth
undeletable
unit coordinate vector
upset welding
uropygis
utra-audion oscillator
voiturier
von Aldor's test
win win
wind bag
wrist action drive
yelves
zertz