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# 33 · 难忘的一天

### 第1段

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!

中文理解：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！

* **out of control**：失去控制；与 under control 对照，区分进入状态与已处状态。

* **go wrong**：出问题；things go wrong 比机械说 problems happen 更自然。

* **a chain of reactions**：一连串连锁反应；关键是前一步触发后一步，不是简单并列。

* **keeping an eye on**：照看；留意；表示持续留意，不必一直盯着。

* **at the same time**：与此同时；可强调同时发生；议论中也可补另一面。

* **on the phone**：在通电话；be on the phone 描写通话状态，不是站在电话上。

* **reduce you to tears**：让你难过得落泪；reduce + 人 + to + 状态；不只指减少数量。

* **During the rush hour**：在交通高峰时段；rush hour 与拥堵后果相连，during 后接名词时段。

* **got into a panic**：陷入惊慌；get into a panic 说变化，be in a panic 说状态。

* **brake hard**：猛踩刹车；brake 是刹车；不要与 break（弄坏）混淆。

* **all of a sudden**：突然；常引入打破原来状态的事件。

* **was loaded with**：装载着……；load A with B 的被动，with 后才是装载物。

* **piled up**：堆积；积压；traffic / work piles up，适合说明连锁后果。

* **on the move**：重新行进；在移动中；get something on the move 使其开始流动，不只是准备搬家。

* **In the meantime**：在此期间；连接另一条同时推进的故事线，不表示之后。

* **had to sweep up**：不得不扫干净；sweep up + 散落物，up 强调收拢清理。

* **benefited from**：从……获益；benefit from + 来源；benefit someone 是使某人受益。

* **one of those days**：诸事不顺的一天；惯用语，those days 不是任何那些日子的字面指代。

#### 原文注释 · We have all experienced days when everything goes wrong.

注释：①happens = occurs。②precisely = exactly。③preparing = getting ready, cooking。④catastrophes = disasters, accidents。⑤smashing = breaking。⑥in the process = at the same time。⑦reduce you to tears = make you cry。

#### 原文注释 · Things can go wrong on a big scale, as a number of people recently discovered in Parramatta, a suburb of Sydney.

注释：①scale,n.规模，比例，鳞：v.衡量。②draw up 在这里由停下来之意引申到使靠拢，再引申到追赶上，这个词组的所有意思总结如下：1.拉起，提，吊起；2.使靠近，合拢，拉过来；3.停住车、马；4.起草，拟定；5.驱散，吸收；6.逼近；7.使（自己）站直。③piled up = accumulated, amassed。

#### Summary 摘要

When the driver behind braked, his wife was thrown forward and the large cake on her lap flew through the windscreen and landed on the road. A lorry had to pull up suddenly and hundreds of empty beer bottles slid off onto the road. The traffic piled up so that it took the police an hour to get it on the move again. The lorry driver swept up the glass and two stray dogs ate the remains of the cake. (80 words)

#### Composition 作文 Mistaken Identity 被当成贼了

\[1]We have all experienced days when everything seems to go wrong. Things certainly went wrong for Ray, a friend of mine, one day last month. It all started, as these things do, with a simple case of "mistaken identity". Ray had been shopping and was loaded with parcels when he got back to the multistory(a.多层的) car park to look for his car. He knew he was on the correct level, but he couldn't see his car anywhere.

\[2]Then, suddenly, while he was looking, he saw one exactly like it. It was a red Nissan. It was exactly the same as his own car, and naturally he mistook it for his own. Still holding the parcels, he felt in his jacket pockets and found his key. He tried to open the driver's door, but the key just wouldn't turn. He couldn't understand it. In the end, he forced the lock - and naturally broke the key.

\[3]At that point he dropped the parcels as well. This infuriated(v.激怒) him. The only way he could get into his car was to break a window, so he deliberately smashed the window of the car. As he was putting his hand in, the owner came back and saw him. The owner rushed towards Ray, held him against the car, and called a policeman on his mobile phone.

\[4]When Ray was arrested, he tried to explain, but the police did not believe him—until they found Ray's car on a level below! (246 words)

## 学完这一课

用 What happened was that… 概括一次连锁事件。

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