美国有线新闻 CNN 2013-12-04

 Surviving in train repellent. A woman's amazing story and a kids one of crash victims remember the dead they lost. Let's get started.   

 

M. works in Midtown Manhattan. She's on her way to work yesterday morning before you meet her. I just wanna show you this. This was just the car she was in its side. There's a rows of seats on the left and the right. The carry on reck and the roof of the car. That's what Amanda walked out of. She joins us now. First of all, I'm surprised you are OK. First, how you open up be there?

 

"Physically¹, I am relatively² unscate and unbelievably so. Emotionally, I probably need a little time to sort that out."

 

"Does it feel real?"  

 

"It's getting more real. The more I hear, the more I see on the news. Because clearly being inside the train, I have no idea the gravity of the situation. When I took those photos, I had no idea that I would show them to anybody. I have no idea they would get me to a point like this. I only took these pictures just to text to a coworker saying: Hey, I'm not coming to work today. I did not realize this is gonna to become a news, a national news. Anything that was gonna leave New York, it didn't seem I was too uninjured for it to seem that big of a deal in the moment."

 

"So, you were...you were sleeping on the train?" 

 

"I was nodding off and the thing that woke me up was my own equilibrium³. I realized that my body was tilted⁴ very severely⁵ and that woke me up. And when I woke up and saw that the entire cab of the train was tilted. I immediately woke up and realized that I was in the middle of the train crash. I got on that train."

 

"I mean when you woke up was the train off the tracks or where?"

 

"The train was tilted to the left against the water, the opposite side toward the land. And then...after...I don't...I don't...I'm not an engineer and I don't fully⁶ understand but whatever tort it through back to the right hand side towards the water. So, those of us in the car that I was in kind of did a loop around, like from the wall to the ceiling to the landing on the side."

 

"So, were you thrown off your seat or what you did?"

 

"Well, I...I stood up from a seat where I had kept my belongings⁷ in my hand but my work uniform was where I was sitting was seats behind me. I wound up in a completely different part of the train than I was originally sitting. Yeah, it was...it happened very fast but it also very much happened in the low motion."

 

"Really?"

 

"I was complete..."

 

"It's like a slow motion?"

"I was completely aware the entire time. As soon as I realized what was going on, I had my phone in my hand. I had my headphone in which prevented me from hearing anything earlier on and I realized that I was gonna need this phone because I was not going to allow myself get hurt and I was gonna to have to call 911 when this is over and I was gonna to have called my mom and dad. And that was going through my head, so I grabbed my phone. I loose my purse around my arm and I just made the conscious decision to keep my eyes open, keep my head straight, roll with the punches. Just let it happen as it was going naturally happened and when it was all settling done I would not only be alive but conscious."

 

"But I mean your car it was...ended up on its side?"     

 

"I was in the 3rd car back which was one of the 2 that was completely on its side. The 2nd car being the one that unfortunately people were ejected from."

 

"So you were standing⁸ up and you were in a different spot than you started in because it..."

 

"It started off tilting⁹ to the left and then I think when the first 2 cars made whatever impact they made. The connection between the cars is what jolted¹⁰ it back to the other side  and that's what threw everyone."

 

1 physically   

adj.物质上，体格上，身体上，按自然规律

参考例句：

• He was out of sorts physically,as well as disordered mentally.他浑身不舒服，心绪也很乱。
• Every time I think about it I feel physically sick.一想起那件事我就感到极恶心。

2 relatively   

adv.比较...地，相对地

参考例句：

• The rabbit is a relatively recent introduction in Australia.兔子是相对较新引入澳大利亚的物种。
• The operation was relatively painless.手术相对来说不痛。

3 equilibrium   

n.平衡，均衡，相称，均势，平静

参考例句：

• Change in the world around us disturbs our inner equilibrium.我们周围世界的变化扰乱了我们内心的平静。
• This is best expressed in the form of an equilibrium constant.这最好用平衡常数的形式来表示。

4 tilted   

v. 倾斜的

参考例句：

• Suddenly the boat tilted to one side. 小船突然倾向一侧。
• She tilted her chin at him defiantly. 她向他翘起下巴表示挑衅。

5 severely   

adv.严格地；严厉地；非常恶劣地

参考例句：

• He was severely criticized and removed from his post.他受到了严厉的批评并且被撤了职。
• He is severely put down for his careless work.他因工作上的粗心大意而受到了严厉的批评。

6 fully   

adv.完全地，全部地，彻底地；充分地

参考例句：

• The doctor asked me to breathe in,then to breathe out fully.医生让我先吸气，然后全部呼出。
• They soon became fully integrated into the local community.他们很快就完全融入了当地人的圈子。

7 belongings   

n.私人物品，私人财物

参考例句：

• I put a few personal belongings in a bag.我把几件私人物品装进包中。
• Your personal belongings are not dutiable.个人物品不用纳税。

8 standing   

n.持续，地位；adj.永久的，不动的，直立的，不流动的

参考例句：

• 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。

9 tilting   

倾斜，倾卸

参考例句：

• For some reason he thinks everyone is out to get him, but he's really just tilting at windmills. 不知为什么他觉得每个人都想害他，但其实他不过是在庸人自扰。
• So let us stop bickering within our ranks.Stop tilting at windmills. 所以，让我们结束内部间的争吵吧！再也不要去做同风车作战的蠢事了。

10 jolted   

（使）摇动， （使）震惊( jolt的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• The truck jolted and rattled over the rough ground. 卡车嘎吱嘎吱地在凹凸不平的地面上颠簸而行。
• She was jolted out of her reverie as the door opened. 门一开就把她从幻想中惊醒。