英语灵异故事-Road Rage 02 公路的怒气 02

[00:22.48]Road Rage
[00:30.79]公路的怒气
[00:41.10]The wind was blowing
[00:42.88]and the fog seemed to be getting thicker.
[00:46.04]Ahead of me, I noticed some taillights.
[00:50.35]I shut off my high beams and slowed down,
[00:53.80]so as not to startle the car in front of me.
[00:57.43]Suddenly there was a squeal¹ and tires peeling,
[01:02.02]from somewhere behind me.
[01:04.48]I looked in my mirror
[01:05.72]and saw a car flying like a bat out of hell.
[01:09.45]It was in the left lane (I was in the right)
[01:12.98]and it flew past me.
[01:14.95]I blew my horn to warn the car in front of me,
[01:17.83]but it was too late.
[01:19.57]Tires screeched² as the speeding car
[01:22.48]smashed into the car in front of me.
[01:25.36]It was a horrifying³ sound.
[01:28.22]The car in front of me rammed⁴ into a tree,
[01:31.38]and the speeding car spun⁵ around it
[01:33.85]and crashed into another tree somewhere ahead.
[01:37.97]The road was too narrow to stop on.
[01:40.82]I drove past a little ways, to a point where I could stop,
[01:45.57]and rushed back.
[01:47.43]As I ran towards the crash,
[01:49.03]I heard the sickening sound of a horn, blowing constantly.
[01:54.18]I grew worried and doubled my pace.
[01:57.19]By the time I arrived, the horn had stopped.
[02:00.70]I headed to where the cars went off the road
[02:03.42]...but nothing was there.
[02:05.44]Not a trace of them.
[02:07.11]At first I thought they'd driven off;
[02:09.59]that the crash wasn't bad.
[02:11.85]But I hadn't seen them drive by.
[02:15.00]I looked to the road where they first went off.
[02:18.03]There were skid⁶ marks,
[02:20.13]but they were faint; as if they were years old.
[02:23.61]What's more,
[02:25.20]the guardrail that they'd crashed through was intact;
[02:28.98]it looked almost brand new.
[02:41.41]讲解
[04:32.37]The wind was blowing
[04:33.86]and the fog seemed to be getting thicker.
[04:41.59]Ahead of me, I noticed some taillights.
[04:48.56]I shut off my high beams and slowed down,
[04:52.02]so as not to startle the car in front of me.
[05:01.45]Suddenly there was a squeal and tires peeling,
[05:05.90]from somewhere behind me.
[05:14.50]I looked in my mirror
[05:15.55]and saw a car flying like a bat out of hell.
[05:23.64]It was in the left lane (I was in the right)
[05:27.23]and it flew past me.
[05:35.03]I blew my horn to warn the car in front of me,
[05:37.55]but it was too late.
[05:43.83]Tires screeched as the speeding car
[05:46.36]smashed into the car in front of me.
[05:55.08]It was a horrifying sound.
[06:00.23]The car in front of me rammed into a tree,
[06:03.09]and the speeding car spun around it
[06:05.59]and crashed into another tree somewhere ahead.
[06:17.53]The road was too narrow to stop on.
[06:20.17]I drove past a little ways, to a point where I could stop,
[06:24.70]and rushed back.
[06:36.45]As I ran towards the crash,
[06:38.63]I heard the sickening sound of a horn, blowing constantly.
[06:47.68]I grew worried and doubled my pace.
[06:53.58]By the time I arrived, the horn had stopped.
[07:00.20]I headed to where the cars went off the road
[07:02.94]...but nothing was there.
[07:04.59]Not a trace of them.
[07:13.01]At first I thought they'd driven off;
[07:15.47]that the crash wasn't bad.
[07:17.71]But I hadn't seen them drive by.
[07:28.85]I looked to the road where they first went off.
[07:31.81]There were skid marks,
[07:33.94]but they were faint; as if they were years old.
[07:45.88]What's more,
[07:46.98]the guardrail that they'd crashed through was intact;
[07:50.53]it looked almost brand new.
[08:12.35]语言点
[08:14.69]like a bat out of hell
[08:28.74]go
[08:32.77]like a bat out of hell
[08:37.66]The kid went like a bat out of hell.
[08:44.07]lane  车道
[08:51.20]two-lane street
[08:54.35]express lane
[08:57.53]crawler lane
[09:02.21]bus lane
[09:04.58]smash  撞上，碰撞
[09:08.65]into
[09:10.93]The car smashed into a tree.
[09:19.99]He was drunk and began to smash things.
[09:26.70]crash
[09:29.01]smash
[09:32.64]into
[09:35.03]The cars crashed into each other.
[09:43.20]crash  碰撞，坠毁
[09:48.23]air crash  空难
[09:51.35]car crash  交通事故，车祸
[09:55.82]brand new
[09:56.81]brand  牌子，商标
[10:07.04]brand new  崭新的，全新的
[10:11.59]It's a brand new idea.
[10:21.88]谢谢收听

1 squeal   

v.发出长而尖的声音；n.长而尖的声音

参考例句：

• The children gave a squeal of fright.孩子们发出惊吓的尖叫声。
• There was a squeal of brakes as the car suddenly stopped.小汽车突然停下来时，车闸发出尖叫声。

2 screeched   

v.发出尖叫声( screech的过去式和过去分词 )；发出粗而刺耳的声音；高叫

参考例句：

• She screeched her disapproval. 她尖叫着不同意。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The car screeched to a stop. 汽车嚓的一声停住了。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》

3 horrifying   

a.令人震惊的，使人毛骨悚然的

参考例句：

• He went to great pains to show how horrifying the war was. 他极力指出战争是多么的恐怖。
• The possibility of war is too horrifying to contemplate. 战争的可能性太可怕了，真不堪细想。

4 rammed   

v.夯实（土等）( ram的过去式和过去分词 )；猛撞；猛压；反复灌输

参考例句：

• Two passengers were injured when their taxi was rammed from behind by a bus. 公共汽车从后面撞来，出租车上的两位乘客受了伤。
• I rammed down the earth around the newly-planted tree. 我将新栽的树周围的土捣硬。 来自《简明英汉词典》

5 spun   

v.纺，杜撰，急转身

参考例句：

• His grandmother spun him a yarn at the fire.他奶奶在火炉边给他讲故事。
• Her skilful fingers spun the wool out to a fine thread.她那灵巧的手指把羊毛纺成了细毛线。

6 skid   

v.打滑 n.滑向一侧；滑道 ，滑轨

参考例句：

• He braked suddenly,causing the front wheels to skid.他突然剎车，使得前轮打了滑。
• The police examined the skid marks to see how fast the car had been travelling.警察检查了车轮滑行痕迹，以判断汽车当时开得有多快。