现代大学英语第二版精读2 unit 4课文翻译.docVIP

As disasters go, this one was terrible, but not unique, certainly not among the worst U.S. air crasheson record . There was the unusual element of the bridge, of course, and the fact that the plane clipped it at a moment of high traffic, one routine thus intersecting another and disrupting both. Then, too, there was the location of the event. Washington, the city of form and regulations, turned chaotic, deregulated, by a blast of real winter and a single slap of metal on metal. The jets from Washington National Airport that normally swoop around the presidential monuments like famished gulls are, for the moment, emblemized by the one that fell; so there is that detail. And there was the aesthetic clash as well—blue-and-green Air Florida, the name a flying garden, sunk down among gray chunks in a black river. All that was worth noticing, to be sure. Still, there was nothing very special in any of it, except death, which, while always special, does not necessarily bring millions to tears or to attention. Why, then, the shock here?就这次灾难而言，这次灾难和其他灾难一样很严重，但并不特殊，当然也绝对不在美国有记载的伤亡人数最多的空难之列。这次灾难的不同之处在于：一是飞机是在交通高峰时段撞上了桥梁。另外就是事件发生的地点，在华盛顿。这个井然有序的漂亮城市，由于这突如其来的冬天的寒风以及这金属与金属的撞击声，突然变得混乱起来。从华盛顿国家机场起飞的飞机一般都像饥饿的海鸥一样绕着华盛顿纪念馆飞行。而现在，尤以这架坠落的飞机为代表，却发生了美感的撞击棗号称“空中花园”的蓝绿色的佛罗里达航空公司的飞机，坠入黑色河水的厚厚灰冰中。固然，这些都值得关注。因为只有死亡才会让成千上万的人落泪。那么，为什么这次空难如此令人震惊呢？Perhaps because the nation saw in this disaster something more than a mechanical failure. Perhaps because people saw in it no failure at all, but rather something successful about their makeup. Here, after all, were two forms of nature in collision: the elements and human character. Last Wednesday, the elements, indifferent as ever, brought down Flight 90. And on that same afternoon, human nature—groping and flailing in mysteries of its own—rose to the occasion应对得当.也许是因为人们不仅仅把这次灾难看成是一次机械故障。也许因为在这次空难中人们看到的不是失败，而是人类的成功。毕竟，这次相撞存在着两种因素：天气和人性。上周三，因素之一是这冷漠糟糕的天气将90号航班硬生生地从天空中拽到了水中。而还是在同一个下午，另外一个因素人性棗摸索着，挣扎着棗终于冒着风险战胜了天气。Of the four acknowledged heroes of t