万花筒 2013-01-12&0114 热气球婚礼惊险着陆
时间：2018-12-24 作者：英语课 分类：万花筒2013年
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A high flying wedding that ended an alarming crash landing for a couple getting married up in the air. Everyone is OK but what a scary it was. ABC's Rob Nelson here with the story.
-Hey, Rob.
-Good morning, scary is the right word. As many of us know, marriages are supposed to be for better or worse. But for the couple you're about to meet that worst part it came way too soon and way too high.
It was supposed to be a romantic sunset wedding in a hot air balloon, but romance quickly turned to fear. The couple and 11 others, including their wedding party and the balloon's operator bracing 1 for a crash landing.
Karen and Jonathan Narccis had just exchanged vows 2 thousands of feet in the air.
Now, they were on their sides, stranded 3 in a stranger's back yard.
“This is our crash landing here.”
A member of the wedding party recorded the crash on her cellphone. The newlyweds had no idea what was happening.
-The first couple of times he tried to land in the.
-we floated over,yeah.
-Yeah, We kept missing landing spots. And next thing you know, we’re descending 4 and I’m thinking how is he going to land here because there is no place to land.
The balloon hit a fence, skidded 5 through some trees and then finally stopped.
-I got a little worried when we hit the fence and I thought, “Well, if the fence doesn't stop us then we're going down this hill.”
Making the ordeal 6 all the more terrifying, the bride's dream of a mid-air wedding was actually the groom's worst nightmare. As it turns out, he's scared of heights.
“I'm terrified, yeah...”
And one of the balloon's occupants did suffer a minor 7 back injury and was transported to a local hospital just as a precaution. No other injuries were reported. The couple actually continued onto the reception. If ever there was a need for an open bar, that would be a good one.
1 bracing
adj.令人振奋的
- The country is bracing itself for the threatened enemy invasion. 这个国家正准备奋起抵抗敌人的入侵威胁。
- The atmosphere in the new government was bracing. 新政府的气氛是令人振奋的。
2 vows
誓言( vow的名词复数 )； 郑重宣布，许愿
- Matrimonial vows are to show the faithfulness of the new couple. 婚誓体现了新婚夫妇对婚姻的忠诚。
- The nun took strait vows. 那位修女立下严格的誓愿。
3 stranded
a.搁浅的，进退两难的
- He was stranded in a strange city without money. 他流落在一个陌生的城市里， 身无分文，一筹莫展。
- I was stranded in the strange town without money or friends. 我困在那陌生的城市，既没有钱，又没有朋友。
4 descending
v.（通常指车辆） 侧滑( skid的过去式和过去分词 )；打滑；滑行；（住在）贫民区
- The car skidded and hit a lamp post. 那辆汽车打滑撞上了路灯杆。
- The car skidded and overturned. 汽车打滑翻倒了。