33 · 难忘的一天
A Day to Remember
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We have all experienced days when everything goes wrong. A day may begin well enough, but suddenly everything seems to get out of control. What invariably happens is that a great number of things choose to go wrong at precisely the same moment. It is as if a single unimportant event set up a chain of reactions. Let us suppose that you are preparing a meal and keeping an eye on the baby at the same time. The telephone rings and this marks the prelude to an unforeseen series of catastrophes. While you are on the phone, the baby pulls the tablecloth off the table, smashing half your best crockery and cutting himself in the process. You hang up hurriedly and attend to baby, crockery, etc. Meanwhile, the meal gets burnt. As if this were not enough to reduce you to tears, your husband arrives, unexpectedly bringing three guests to dinner.
Things can go wrong on a big scale, as a number of people recently discovered in Parramatta, a suburb of Sydney. During the rush hour one evening two cars collided and both drivers began to argue. The woman immediately behind the two cars happened to be a learner. She suddenly got into a panic and stopped her car. This made the driver following her brake hard. His wife was sitting beside him holding a large cake. As she was thrown forward, the cake went right through the windscreen and landed on the road. Seeing a cake flying through the air, a lorry driver who was drawing up alongside the car, pulled up all of a sudden. The lorry was loaded with empty beer bottles and hundreds of them slid off the back of the vehicle and on to the road. This led to yet another angry argument. Meanwhile, the traffic piled up behind. It took the police nearly an hour to get the traffic on the move again. In the meantime, the lorry driver had to sweep up hundreds of broken bottles. Only two stray dogs benefited from all this confusion, for they greedily devoured what was left of the cake. It was just one of those days!
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We have all experienced days when everything goes wrong. A day may begin well enough, but suddenly everything seems to get out of control. What invariably happens is that a great number of things choose to go wrong at precisely the same moment. It is as if a single unimportant event set up a chain of reactions. Let us suppose that you are preparing a meal and keeping an eye on the baby at the same time. The telephone rings and this marks the prelude to an unforeseen series of catastrophes. While you are on the phone, the baby pulls the tablecloth off the table, smashing half your best crockery and cutting himself in the process. You hang up hurriedly and attend to baby, crockery, etc. Meanwhile, the meal gets burnt. As if this were not enough to reduce you to tears, your husband arrives, unexpectedly bringing three guests to dinner.
Things can go wrong on a big scale, as a number of people recently discovered in Parramatta, a suburb of Sydney. During the rush hour one evening two cars collided and both drivers began to argue. The woman immediately behind the two cars happened to be a learner. She suddenly got into a panic and stopped her car. This made the driver following her brake hard. His wife was sitting beside him holding a large cake. As she was thrown forward, the cake went right through the windscreen and landed on the road. Seeing a cake flying through the air, a lorry driver who was drawing up alongside the car, pulled up all of a sudden. The lorry was loaded with empty beer bottles and hundreds of them slid off the back of the vehicle and on to the road. This led to yet another angry argument. Meanwhile, the traffic piled up behind. It took the police nearly an hour to get the traffic on the move again. In the meantime, the lorry driver had to sweep up hundreds of broken bottles. Only two stray dogs benefited from all this confusion, for they greedily devoured what was left of the cake. It was just one of those days!
我们都遇到过诸事不顺的日子：一天原本开头还不错，突然间，一切仿佛都失去了控制。偏偏许多事总爱在同一个时刻出岔子，好像一件不起眼的小事，竟引发了一连串连锁反应。假设你一边做饭，一边照看孩子，电话响了，这就拉开了一连串意外灾难的序幕。你接电话时，孩子把桌布扯了下来，摔坏了你一半最好的餐具，还划伤了自己。你匆忙挂断电话，顾孩子、收拾碎片，忙成一团，锅里的饭菜却又烧焦了。仿佛这些还不足以让你欲哭无泪，丈夫回来了，还出乎意料地带着三位客人来吃晚饭。
倒霉事也可能闹出很大的场面，最近，悉尼郊区帕拉马塔的一些人就领教了一回。一天傍晚交通高峰时，两辆车相撞，司机吵了起来。紧跟在后面的是一名学车的女士，她一下慌了神，把车停住，逼得后车司机猛踩刹车。他妻子坐在旁边，手里托着一个大蛋糕。她被惯性带得向前一冲，蛋糕竟穿过挡风玻璃，落到了路上。旁边一辆正靠过来的卡车上，司机看见蛋糕在空中飞，立刻急刹。卡车装的全是空啤酒瓶，数百只从车尾滑落，撒了一地，这又引起了一场愤怒的争吵。与此同时，后面的车辆越积越多。警察花了近一小时，才让交通恢复；卡车司机则不得不清扫地上数百只碎瓶子。整场混乱中，只有两只流浪狗得了好处，贪婪地吃光了蛋糕的残渣。这可真是诸事不顺的一天！
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