11 危急時刻(doc)
11. At the Critieal Monent On a sunny afternoon Kristi and the kids drove from their home to visit Kathy, a close friend. Todd and Marki immediately scampered1 into Kathy's backyard to play, and Kristi reminded them to keep away from the railroad tracks that ran behind the house. Just to be sure, she carefully drew an imaginary line with her foot.“ Don't cross it,” she warned. 　　Todd and Marki chased each other around. Minutes later, they scooted2 past the boundary3 their mother had set.Not far away,a freight4 train rumbled5 into town.“ Suddenly I came around a curve and saw two children playing,” recalls Jim Hayes,the engineer. He blasted6 warning signals to the kids, just a few hundred feet directly ahead.Startled, Todd jumped away from the tracks and began to run.“ Run, Marki, run!” he shouted. Marki got confused. She ran, but instead of following her brother she sprinted7 forward, still in the path of the train.Hayes and the conductor seated next to him, Dale Getter, watched her, horrified. “ Oh, God,” Hayes said as he pulled the brakes and sounded the whistle nonstop.Meanwhile, Getter had managed to scramble8 out the locomotive9 door. The train had slowed to about 20 miles an hour, still enough to crush the child, or him if he fell. Getter had wanted to reach down and grab the little girl, but the train was rapidly bearing down on her. Without a second to spare, he stuck out his right leg and kicked her away from the tracks. 　　At that moment, Kristi saw Todd running toward her. “ I knew from the look on his face something bad had happened,” she says. Screaming Marki's name, she ran on.The train screeched10 to a halt and Getter jumped off. Getter reached Marki. Incredibly, she was unharmed, except for a scrape on her shoulder. He gently scooped her up11 and placed her in Kristi's arms. “ Thank you, thank you,” was all Kristi could say as she covered Marki with kisses. Marki looked up at her mother through her tears.“ That man kicked me!” she said. 危急時刻（四） 一個風和日麗的下午，克里斯蒂和孩子們開車去拜訪好友凱西。托德和馬吉一到凱西 家就跑到后院玩去了?？死锼沟偬嵝阉麄円h離房子后面的鐵道。為了保險起見，她仔 細地用腳畫了一條想象的界限。“不要越過這條線，”她警告說。 　　托德和馬吉相互追趕著玩。幾分鐘以后他們就沖過了媽媽劃定的界限。在不遠的地 方，一趟載貨列車正隆隆地駛向鎮(zhèn)里。“突然我拐了一個彎，就看見兩個孩子正在玩耍， ”司機吉姆·海斯回憶說。他向孩子們拉響了警笛。他們就在幾百英尺遠的正前方。托德 嚇了一跳，跳下鐵軌就跑。“跑，馬吉，快跑！”他喊道。馬吉弄不清楚是怎么回事。她 跑了，但還是在鐵道線上往前沖，而不是跟著她的哥哥。海斯和坐在身旁的車長戴爾·格 特看著她，嚇壞了?！鞍。系?，”海斯說著，一面拉制動閘，一面讓警笛不停地響著。 與此同時，格特爬出了機車的車門，火車已經減速到每小時20英里了，但這個速度仍然 足以軋死孩子，如果他摔下去的話也會軋死他自己。格特本想伸手把小女孩抓起來，但 火車很快就要軋上她了。一秒鐘都耽擱不得。他伸出右腿，將她踢出了軌道。 　　這時，克里斯蒂看見托德朝她跑過來?！皬乃樕系谋砬槲抑莱鍪铝?，”她說。她 一面奔跑，一面尖聲叫著馬吉的名字。火車嘎然剎住了，格特跳了下來，伸手抱住馬吉 。令人難以置信的是，她并沒有傷著，只是在肩上擦了塊皮。他輕輕地將她抱起來放到 克里斯蒂的懷里?！爸x謝你，謝謝你，”克里斯蒂不停地親著馬吉，再也說不出別的話來 。馬吉滿眼淚水，抬頭看著她媽媽，“那個人踢了我一腳！”她說。 1.scamper[5σκ“μπΕ]vi.奔跑，疾走 2.scoot[σκυ:τ]vi.飛奔，猛沖 3.boundary[5βαυνδΕρι]n.界限 4.freight[φρειτ]n.(鐵路)貨車 5.rumble[5ρΘμβλ]vi.發(fā)隆隆聲 6.blast[βλΒ:στ]vt.鳴響 7.sprint[σπριντ]vi.用全速奔跑 8.scramble[5σκρ“μβλ]vi.爬，攀登 9.locomotive[7λΕυκΕ5μΕυτιπ]adj.機車的 10.screech[σκρι:τΦ]vi.發(fā)出尖銳刺耳的聲音 11.scoop[σκυ:π]vt.(與up連用)抱起
11 危急時刻(doc)