万花筒 2009-08-09&08-10 德克萨斯整治街头飙车
时间：2018-12-11 作者：英语课 分类：万花筒2009年
A different sort of car concern across the country - illegal street racing 1, putting the pedal to the metal is often glorified 2 on the big screen, but in reality street racing can be deadly, killing 3 dozens of people every year. It’s become such a problem in one particular Texas town that a professional track is welcoming would-be raced... Oh, I should say drag racers, in an effort to keep the danger off the public roadways.
It’s not NASCAR and it’s definitely not Indy. “One, two.” But these races at the Texas Motor Speedway may be much more important.
"We are trying to get people off the streets from doing this illegally.”
And with good reason, just last week, a teen died in a drag racing accident in Fort Worth. Across the country about 30 people die each year in racing accidents. So officials at the Texas Motor Speedway came up with the plan - open this racetrack to everyone.
"It’s an eighth of a mile, so we try to pair them up to where my PT Cruiser isn't racing as a star, you know, Mustang, Shelby Cobra.”
So far the event's been a huge success with about 125 drivers each week. Drivers paid a play just 20 bucks 4.
"It's just the burning-out, just not having to worry about the cops. And everything is safe.”
"Fastest I've been so far in the eighth mile was 6.1 at 114-mile-an-hour.”
Chad Marquez admits he’s done illegal drag racing before but says it’s not worth the possible jail-time or worse.
"There I read the car hurt somebody, it’s not worth it.”
Here fire crews are standing 5 by just in case.
"Your most drags strips are a quarter of mile, so you can get going a whole lot faster than you can here, a lot of these cars aren't going, 100+ miles an hour when they get to the end. But I think it just gets back to, you know everybody’s get a little bit hot rod in them, you know, that's, that’s the appeal.”
In Fort Worth, Kris Gutierrez, Fox News.
- I was watching the racing on television last night.昨晚我在电视上看赛马。
- The two racing drivers fenced for a chance to gain the lead.两个赛车手伺机竞相领先。
- The restaurant was no more than a glorified fast-food cafe. 这地方美其名曰餐馆，其实只不过是个快餐店而已。
- The author glorified the life of the peasants. 那个作者赞美了农民的生活。
- Investors are set to make a killing from the sell-off.投资者准备清仓以便大赚一笔。
- Last week my brother made a killing on Wall Street.上个周我兄弟在华尔街赚了一大笔。