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Unit 12
Life
Is Full of the Unexpected
生活中
充满
意外
In May 2001,
I found a job in New York at the World Trade
Center. On September 11,
在
2001
年
五月
，我在纽约世贸中心
找到一份
工作
。
在
九月
十一日
2001, I
arrived at my building at around 8:30 a.m. I was
about to go up when I decided to get a
我
到达
我的办公楼大约在上午的八点半。我正要
上楼
时我
决定先去
买
一杯
coffee first. I went to my favorite
coffee place even though it was two blocks east
from my
咖啡
。我去了我
最喜欢的咖啡店，即使从东面出发，那里离我的办公室有
两个
街区。
office. As I was waiting in line with
other office workers, I heard a loud sound. Before
I could
当我
和
其他的
办公室
工作人员一起排队等候时，我
听到一声巨响。
在我可以
join the
others outside to see what was going on, the first
plane had already hit my office
加入其他人
到外面
看
发生
什么事。
第一架
飞机
已经
撞上我的
办公
building. We
stared in disbelief at the black smoke rising
above the burning building. I felt
大楼
我们难以置信的凝视着
黑色的烟从燃烧着的大楼上升起。我感到幸运，
lucky to be alive.
运为自己
还活着。
Almost
10 years later, I woke up at 10:00 a.m. on
February 21,2011 and realized that my
将近
年
后
，
我在
2011
年二月
21
日早上十点钟醒
来。
才
意识到我的
alarm
never went off. I jumped out of bed and went
straight to the airport. But by the time I got
闹钟
从来没有响过。我
跳下
床，
直奔
飞机场
。
在我到达飞机场之前，
to the
airport, my plane to New Zealand had already taken
off
.“
This is the first
holiday
I’ve
我飞往新西兰的班机在已经起飞。
这是我一年来的第一个假期。
taken in a year, and now
I’ve
missed my plane. What
bad
luck!”
I thought to
myself. The
现在
错过了
飞机
。
多么倒霉啊
！
我独自沉闷。
other
planes were full so I had to wait till the next
day. The next morning, I heard about the
其它的
飞机
已
满员，
因此
不得不
等第二天的航班。第二天
早上，我
听
说
earthquake in
New Zealand the day before. My bad luck had
unexpectedly turned into a good
新西兰地震了，
（就在我误机的）
前一天。我的
霉运
意外地
变成
好
thing.
事
April
Fool’s
Day
is a celebration that takes place in different
countries around the world. It
愚人节
庆祝活动
发生在世界上
不同的
国家
。
happens on
April 1st every year and is a day when many people
play all kinds of tricks and
每年四月
，
很多的
人相互之间
玩
各种各样的
骗术
和
jokes on each other.
笑话
One
April
Fool’s
Day, a reporter
in England announced that there would be no more
在一个
愚人节
一名英国记者
宣布
将
不再有
spaghetti
because the spaghetti farmers in Italy had stopped
growing spaghetti. Many people
意大利式细面条，因为
意大利式细面条农民在意大利
停止种植
意大利式细面条
很多
人
ran to their local supermarkets to buy
as much spaghetti as they could. By the time
people
跑
向
他们的本地的
超市
尽可能多的买意大利式细面条。
到
人们
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