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

realized that the story was a hoax, all of the spaghetti across the country had been sold out . In 意识到这个是一个骗局，所有的遍布整个国家的意大利式细面条遍布已经售光。 another famous trick a TV show in England reported the discovery of special water. They said 另一个著名的骗术节目英国报道发现特殊的水他们说

this water would help people lose weight and that one customer had already lost a lot of weight 这种水将帮助人们减肥一个顾客已经减去很多重量

in just four months. By the end of the day, more than 10,000 people had phoned the TV station 仅四月份到…末尾超过人打电话电视台

to find out how to get this water.

找到如何得到这种水

Many April Fool’s jokes may end up being not very funny. A famous TV star once 很多愚人节的笑话可能最终成为不是很有趣著名的明星一次invited his girlfriend onto his show on April Fool’s Day. He asked her to marry him. The lady 邀请女朋友参加节目愚人节请求她嫁给他女士

was so happy because she really wanted to get married. However, when she said yes, he

如此高兴因为真的想要结婚然而当说好的

replied, “ April Fool!” That little joke didn’t have a very happy ending. The TV star lost his

回答愚人节傻瓜小笑话没有非常幸福的结局明星失去了

girlfriend and his show was canceled.

女朋友他的节目被取消

One of the world’s most famous tricks, however, happened in October rather than in 之一世界最著名的骗术然而发生十月而不是

April. In that month in 1938, actor Orson Welles announced on his radio program that aliens

四月月演员奥森韦尔斯宣布在广播节目外星人

from Mars had landed on the earth. He described where they had landed and told how they

来自火星着陆地球描述哪里着陆告诉如何

were moving across the United States. Welles made it sound so real that hundreds of people 移动穿过美国韦尔斯制造声音如此真的成百上千人believed the story, and fear spread across the whole country. By the time police officers

相信故事恐惧传播穿过整个国家到…的时候警察

announced that the story was a hoax, thousands of people had left their homes.

宣布这个故事骗局成千上万人离开他们的家园