美国国家公共电台 NPR A Year After Parkland, A Mother And Daughter Remember

 

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DAVID GREENE, HOST:

Time for StoryCorps. Last Valentine's Day, Maya Altman stepped out of her freshman¹ biology class at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School when she heard booming² sounds. They were gunshots from the mass shooting nearly a year ago that took the lives of 17 people, including her friend Alyssa Alhadeff. At StoryCorps, Maya sat down with her mom to remember.

MAYA ALTMAN: I saw everybody running in every direction. And in the blink³ of an eye, everyone was gone. I remember being thrown into the ROTC room. And I was told to go in the back, lay down, be quiet.

ROBYN ALTMAN: So you didn't know yet?

ALTMAN: I don't think anybody really knew. I was on 10 percent, and Dad was texting me. He said, what's going on? I said, I don't know. Do you see police? I said no idea. And he said, are you out of school? And then my phone died. And we were fighting that morning. I don't remember why (laughter). I remember being like, my mom's mad at me, and, like, I'm never going to say I'm sorry. After the SWAT came into my class, they had us run with our heads down and our hands on our heads. And they're like, don't look to your right, don't look to your right. And obviously⁴ if somebody tells you not to do something and you're a bunch of teenagers, you're going to do it. And the doors were open, and there were backpacks all inside. And it was red. And, like, everything was a mess.

ALTMAN: When you say red, meaning blood?

ALTMAN: Yeah, yeah.

ALTMAN: When I saw you and I was able to touch, feel, hug you, I remember just, like, not wanting to let go. What was your experience when you finally saw us?

ALTMAN: I didn't really think, like, I'm so glad to see you. I just wanted to leave. And I remember we went home, and I was texting Alyssa. And I was like, where are you; are you OK? And Alyssa never texted back. So I was just praying, please let her be OK. And she wasn't. How did you feel about sending me back to Douglas?

ALTMAN: I remember just feeling so uneasy⁵. And you decided⁶ to go in by yourself, and I remember thinking how brave you were.

ALTMAN: I could talk to my creative writing teacher about things that I couldn't talk to you about because she understood everything. I mean, she got shot.

ALTMAN: How do you think the shooting affected⁷ your ideas for the future?

ALTMAN: I don't - I didn't really think about that there was a possibility that I wouldn't grow up, you know? There was no possibility that maybe I might die at 15. But, like, once I saw some of my friends did, it was just like, I have a life; I want to do something to feel worthy⁸.

ALTMAN: Seeing what you went through in this past year and seeing how you're sort of working through it even on the toughest, toughest nights, it's - I'm just so grateful. I'm just so grateful and proud of you.

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GREENE: Robyn Altman with her daughter Maya at StoryCorps in Parkland, Fla. That conversation will be archived along with hundreds of thousands of others at the Library of Congress⁹.

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1 freshman   

n.大学一年级学生(可兼指男女)

参考例句：

• Jack decided to live in during his freshman year at college.杰克决定大一时住校。
• He is a freshman in the show business.他在演艺界是一名新手。

2 booming   

adj.急速发展的v.激增( boom的现在分词 )；猛涨；发出隆隆声；以低沉有力的声音说话

参考例句：

• The opera singer has a deep, booming, masculine voice. 这位歌剧演唱家有一副深沉而又浑厚有力的嗓音。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
• He is booming as a teacher. 作为一位教师，他日趋成功。 来自《简明英汉词典》

3 blink   

vi.眨眼睛，闪烁；vt.眨（眼睛），使闪烁

参考例句：

• In a blink of an eye he had disappeared.一眨眼的工夫他就没影了。
• The boy disappeared around the corner in a blink of an eye.一眨眼，这男孩就在拐角处不见了。

4 obviously   

adv.显然；明白地

参考例句：

• Obviously they were putting him to a severe test.显然他们是在给他以严峻的考验。
• Obviously he was lying.显然他是在撒谎。

5 uneasy   

adj.心神不安的，担心的，令人不安的

参考例句：

• He feels uneasy today.他今天心里感到不安。
• She had an uneasy feeling that they were still following her.她有一种他们仍在跟踪她的不安感觉。

6 decided   

adj.决定了的，坚决的；明显的，明确的

参考例句：

• This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
• There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。

7 affected   

adj.不自然的，假装的

参考例句：

• She showed an affected interest in our subject.她假装对我们的课题感到兴趣。
• His manners are affected.他的态度不自然。

8 worthy   

adj.(of)值得的，配得上的；有价值的

参考例句：

• I did not esteem him to be worthy of trust.我认为他不值得信赖。
• There occurred nothing that was worthy to be mentioned.没有值得一提的事发生。

9 Congress   

n.(代表)大会；(C-:美国等国的)国会，议会

参考例句：

• There were some days to wait before the Congress.大会的召开还有几天时间。
• After 18 years in Congress,he intented to return to private life.在国会供职18年后，他打算告老还乡。