高级英语FacetofacewithHurricaneCamille中英笔记.pdfVIP

Face To Face With Hurricane Camille 迎战卡米尔号飓风 约瑟夫 .布兰克 1 John Koshak, Jr., knew Hurricane Camille would be bad. Radio and television warnings had sounded throughout that Sunday. Last August 17, as Camille lashed northwestward across the Gulf of Mexico. It was certain to pummel Gulfport, Miss., where the Koshaks lived. Along the coasts of Louisiana, Mississippi and Alabama, nearly 150,000 peoplefled inland to safer ground. But like thousands of others in the coastal communities, John was reluctant to abandon his home unless the family — his wife, Janis and their seven children, aged 3 to 11— was clearly endangered. 小约翰。柯夏克已料到，卡米尔号飓风来势定然凶猛。就在去年 8 月 17 日那个 星期天，当卡米尔号飓风越过墨西哥湾向西北进袭之时， 收音机和电视里整天不 断地播放着飓风警报。 柯夏克一家居住的地方一—密西西比州的高尔夫港——肯 定会遭到这场飓风的猛烈袭击。 路易斯安那、 密西西比和亚拉巴马三州沿海一带 的居民已有将近 15 万人 逃往 内陆安全地带。但约翰就像沿海村落中其他成千上 万的人一样， 不愿舍弃家园， 要他下决心弃家外逃， 除非等到他的一家人一—妻 子詹妮丝以及他们那七个年龄从三岁到十一岁的孩子一一眼看着就要灾祸临头。 lash (v.): move quickly or violently 猛烈冲击；拍打 pummel (n.): beat or hit with repeated blows ，esp ．with the fist( 尤指用拳头 ) 连 续地打 2 Trying to reason out the best course of action, he talked with his father and mother, who had moved into the ten-room house with the Koshaks a month earlier from California. He also consulted Charles Hill, a longtime friend, who had driven from Las Vegas for a visit. 为了找出 应付 这场风灾的 最佳对策 ，他与父母商量过。 两位老人是早在一个月前 就从加利福尼亚迁到这里来， 住进柯夏克一家所住的那幢十个房间的屋子里。 他 还就此 征求 过从拉斯韦加斯开车来访的老朋友查理 希尔的意见。 course (n.): a way of behaving ；mode 0f conduct 行为；品行；做法 reason out : to find out an explanation or solution to a problem ，by thinking of all the possibilities 寻找解决途径 例： Lets reason this out instead of quarrelling ．让我们不要争吵