读者文摘英语文章

读者文摘英语文章

"KIDS ON THE TRACK!"

Jack Murphy

Monday, May 1, 1989 was a pleasant morning in Ramsey, N.J. Kate Pritchard bent over her car trunk and struggled with the bags of groceries she'd just brought home. She heard the distant cry of a locomotive horn. The trains of Conrail passed less than 300 feet from the Pritchards' house. No fence separated their backyard from the track — only a thick row of trees. But, her sons, 3(1/2)-year-old Todd and 18-month-old Scott, were nearby, playing on the driveway.
"Stay right there," Kate said, "while Mommy puts the groceries away. Then we'll go inside and have lunch, okay?"
"Okay!" said Todd, giving a thumbs-up gesture he'd seen his father make.
"Okay!" echoed Scott, trying to copy his older brother.
7S\-I8|? i3dq3RV0They watched their mother enter the house with several bags.
Kate shut the refrigerator and hurried outside. Good. The boys were playing right where she'd left them.
As she lifted more bags from the trunk, Kate heard a train race past — a passenger express, she judged from its speed. She carried more bags into the house.
The sounds of the train apparently drew the boys' attention to the track. After making their way through the trees, they climbed to the top of the steep roadbed, knelt down along the railroad and began to play.
*w[)BY l0WvDW3k0A few thousand feet west, a freight train rolled slowly toward the children. Overhead lights signaled to engineer Rich Campana that the passenger train ahead was out of the way, and they could resume their normal speed of 40 miles per hour. The engineer adjusted the accelerator, then turned to conductor Anthony Falzo, a man, medium in height and strongly built, who had worked for Conrail for almost half of his 35 years.
"So what'd you do over the weekend, Anthony?"
"Oh, not much. Mostly messing around — a little TV, then bed. What else?"
Campana smiled. "Hey, you'd better cool down, Anthony — you're getting to be a real party animal!"
The two men laughed. They were still laughing as the train began gathering speed, moving at 21 miles per hour.
Rich and Anthony spotted something ahead at the same instant.
"What's that up there?" asked the engineer. Anthony didn't answer. Staring intently, he was trying to identify the curious shape on the track ahead. A box? Old rags?
Suddenly both men realized what it was. Rich threw on the emergency brake and pulled on the air-horn handle with all his strength.
The horn's blast and Anthony's words exploded at the same time: "Kids on the Track!"
Anthony sprang through the cab door onto a narrow running board six feet above the wheels and raced to the front of the swaying train. Climbing quickly down a steel ladder, he paused at the bottom, two feet above the roadbed flashing by.
Now he could clearly see the two little children. They were sitting alongside the rail. Anthony waved wildly and shouted, "Get away! Get away!"
He mentally calculated the train's deceleration rate and groaned. We'll never stop in time.
Absorbed in play, Todd and Scott did not hear the train. Finally, as the sound became thunderous, Scott looked up and froze.
Though the train was slowing, Anthony knew it was still going faster than he could run. So he forced himself to wait until he would be close enough to leap off and grab the boys. With perhaps ten feet left between them and the sharp-edged snowplow blade at the front of the train, Anthony sprang forward from the ladder. Landing on the loose, fist-size stones alongside the track, he had to struggle to keep his balance. In two giant steps he almost reached the children. They stared up at him in wide-eyed shock. Anthony, throwing his body into space, flew toward them.
The unending blast of the train horn struck Kate Pritchard like a hammer blow. "The boys! " she cried, and raced out the door. They were gone!
The track, she thought. I must get to the track!
As his body crashed downward, Anthony covered Todd while reaching out with one arm to grab Scott and pull him clear of the track. But the train had caught up to them. Anthony saw the black steel edge of the snowplow blade hit the young child under the chin, driving his head back and scraping over his face. Instantly, blood flashed across the boy's forehead.
Part of the train then punched into the back of Anthony's work jacket, tearing the nylon fabric. Still, Anthony managed to pull Scott completely under him.
He's dead, Anthony thought. He felt sick with horror. Burying his face in the stones, he pushed downward on the two boys with all his strength as the train passed inches above them.
The first person Kate saw when she reached the halted train was Todd. Her older boy was jumping up and down and crying uncontrollably. But Kate could see he wasn't injured. She grabbed and hugged him. Then she saw the still figure of a man lying under the third car. Scott's head, a mask of darkening blood, was visible under him. Kate ran to them. "Scott!" she screamed.
Anthony twisted to face her. "Lady," he said, his voice calm, "go to your house. Call the police and ambulance." Kate, only half hearing him, extended her arms to take her baby. Anthony spoke again, more sharply, "Ma'am, listen! Go to your house and call the police — call an ambulance. Go!"
Kate tore back to the house, made the calls, then reached her husband, Gary, via his beeper.
When the first police car arrived, Anthony was still holding little Scott. The conductor knew from the child's cries that he was alive, but Scott might have internal injuries that any movement could worsen. So Anthony insisted the emergency personnel check the boy before he would release his grip. Miraculously, Scott's injuries were not serious, requiring just 13 stitches.
fgkm:ovS0There had only been 14 inches between the plow blade and the ground. Reporters later asked Anthony if he had hesitated before risking his life.
"No," he replied. "All I could think was that those two little kids have their whole lives still ahead of them, and if I do nothing, they're dead. There was no way I could let that happen."
Soon after the incident, Anthony visited the Pritchards' home. He recalls putting his arms around Todd and Scott and lifting them. "It made me remember the moment when I first sheltered them under the train. It was a strange feeling, holding them again — and wonderful too."
Since that first visit, the Pritchards say that Anthony has almost become a member of the family. They also report that a fence now separates their neighborhood from the railroad track.
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读书是好习惯 英语作文带翻译

Reading is a good habit
I am reading a good article in Reader's Digest.
我在读《读者文摘》中的一篇好文章。
It is Benefits of Reading.
文章叫《读书的好处》
We can get smart, healthy and happy.
我们可以变得聪明、健康和快乐。
A lot of reading can protect the brain from Alzheimer's disease.
大量的阅读可以保护大脑免受阿尔茨海默病（的困扰）。
Reading a page-turner or simply scanning a manufacture instruction of
coffee maker can reduce our stress.
阅读一本引人入胜的书或简单地浏览一份咖啡机的生产说明书就能减轻我们的压力。
And reading some books how someone overcame obstacles and achieved success encourage us to meet our goal.
而且阅读一些如何克服障碍取得成功的书能激励我们达到我们的人生目标。
We can experience different kinds of life in stories with authors.
我们可以和作者一起去经历故事中的各种各样的人生。
Rich experience strengthens our ability to understand other's feelings.
丰富的经历会加强我们对别人的情感的理解能力。
Reading is a good habit because we can benefit a lot from it.
阅读是个好习惯，因为我们可以从中受益良多。

英语语法：Dewitt Wallance founded the Reader's Digest as a pocket-sized,

Dewitt Wallance 是主语
founded 是谓语
the Reader's Digest as a pocket-sized是宾语,
后面是同位语, non-fiction magazine
后面是 过去分词短语作定语 相当于一个定语从句 =which was intended to inform and entertain.
这是一个简单句
答案是D
不是独立主格结构
句子意思 Dewitt Wallance 把《读者文摘》作为口袋读物 创办了、作为散文杂志,主要为读者提供信息与娱乐。

英语作文：我最喜欢的杂志

My favorite magazine is "Youth Computer World", it gave me a lot of fun, from the beginning of first grade Subscribe it.
Whenever the latest "juvenile computer world" to the family, I can not wait to want to open it, I "Junior computer world" feeling of love is like rolling out of the river can not be closed as the morning, the night view, even when the toilet while also holding to see, really can be "crazy" to describe it.
"Youth Computer World" magazine section of this diversity, which is very attractive, the "impact of broadcast", "Q Family Report", "Open bypass roads" and so on. Such as "Tips secretly reported" This section is devoted to the small number of computer operation skills; "QA Q & A Room" is encountered by young readers to answer the question; "PPT experts" is to become a computer expert must-see section will focus on the animation production and the content of the page layout; also "I Legend" is a well-known computer company to introduce some of the growth process and "IT" to the success of the industry's well-known process; and the "D channel melon" is to introduce some new digital products.
The contents of this magazine not only look good, it is also very practical value. On one occasion, my home computer is broken, the box boot time to keep a "giggle" sound, my mother just called the computer repair people, but I suppose a lot of money you may have to, then the mother stopped , with the "juvenile computer world" to the skills of secondary school, opened the box, carefully searching for the problem, look for a while, the fans were found to be jammed, it seems that this is the reason for my failure to find a! I care what the fans jammed away, stamped chassis, re-run the computer, hey, "giggle" was not the voice of the computer and good work.
Mother is very surprised that I really have to look, and I am very proud of. However, this will have to thank my "juvenile computer world", it is that it taught me so much useful knowledge.

急！求翻译。由于句子多。一次我发问四句。

this article is adapted from "My Way Up",Reader's Digest,April 1995.
本文摘自“我的方式”，读者文摘，四月1995。
you would make an outstanding teacher:you would become a very good teacher.
你会成为一个杰出的老师：你会成为一个很好的老师。
but bills always seemed to get in the way .
但账单似乎总是在路上。
:but i had to work in order to pay the bills,which prevented me from studying to become a teacher.
：但我必须工作以支付账单，这使我成为一个老师。