Unit12单元课文翻译

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