扬言跳埃菲尔铁塔男子被拘留

 　　PARIS, June 18 (Xinhua) -- The man who menaced to jump off from Paris' iconic La Tour Eiffel (the Eiffel Tower) was detained on Tuesday afternoon by the French police.

　　Police sources confirmed that the man, aged¹ around 30 years old and a self-claimed Polish, is "psychologically unstable²." He threatened to commit suicide by jumping off La Tour Eiffel Tower, a famous tourist destination in the capital city of Paris while he was trying to climb from the second floor up to the third floor through the outside of the tower.

　　Visitors to the monument were immediately evacuated³ at around 13:00 (1100GMT) and the man was finally talked down and detained by police.

　　Police lifted the safety alarm after placing the area under security control for two hours.

　　The reasons for the man's suicide bid are not yet clear, but media reports said the man wanted to be filmed by helicopter.

　　La Tour Eiffel hosted 7 million visitors in 2011 and is one of the most visited monuments in the world.

1 aged   

adj.年老的，陈年的

参考例句：

• He had put on weight and aged a little.他胖了，也老点了。
• He is aged,but his memory is still good.他已年老，然而记忆力还好。

2 unstable   

adj.不稳定的，易变的

参考例句：

• This bookcase is too unstable to hold so many books.这书橱很不结实，装不了这么多书。
• The patient's condition was unstable.那患者的病情不稳定。

3 evacuated   

撤退者的

参考例句：

• Police evacuated nearby buildings. 警方已将附近大楼的居民疏散。
• The fireman evacuated the guests from the burning hotel. 消防队员把客人们从燃烧着的旅馆中撤出来。