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Hurricane!
Jane and Pippa have just returned from walking in the hills. Pippa's parpents have been waiting for them.
珍妮和皮帕刚从山上走回家。皮帕的父母一直在等着他们。
MOTHER: Good heavens! There you are!
母亲:哎呀！你们才回来！
PIPPA: Is there anything the matter?
皮帕:出了什么事吗？
MOTHER: We were getting very worried.
母亲:我们都非常担心呢。
PIPPA: There's no need to be worried. We're both fine.
皮帕:没有必要嘛。我们两个都挺好。
MOTHER: Look at your clothes! Where have you been?
母亲:瞧你们的衣服！你们去哪儿了？
FATHER: We've been anxious about you. We were expecting you back much earlier.
父亲:我们都为你们着急呢。都盼着你们早点儿回来。
JANE: We couldn't get across the river. The bridge has been washed away by the floods. So we had to find another way back. Then we had to walk across some very wet ground. That's how we got so wet and dirty.
珍妮:我们过不了河。桥已经被洪水冲走了。因此我们得另找路回来。然后，我们还得走过一些潮湿的地面。这就是我们怎么弄得这样又湿又脏的原因了。
FATHER: So then what happened?
父亲:后来怎么样？
PIPPA: We had to climb over some rocks and it started to rain. Fortunately, we could see where we were going; it just took us a long time to get over the rocks.
皮帕:我们不得不爬过一些岩石，这时开始下起雨。幸好我们能辨认我们要走的方向，我们花了很长时间才爬过岩石。
MOTHER: What's the matter with your foot, Jane?
母亲:珍妮，你的脚怎么了？
JANE: My shoe has been pressing against my foot, so it hurts a bit.
珍妮:我的鞋一直挤着脚，所以脚有点疼。
PIPPA: It was getting very windy in the hills.
皮帕:山上还刮起了大风。
FATHER: Yes. We've just heard a warning on the radio that a hurricane is likely to come. That's why we were getting anxious about you.
父亲:是的，我们刚从广播里听到一则气象警报，说是一场飓风可能要到来。所以我们才为你们担心。
On Friday 16th October, 1987, a hurricane struck the southeast of England. Between the hours of midnight and 6 a.m.the hurricane crossed the southeast corner of England with winds of up to 160 kph. Nineteen people lost their lives. If the hurricane had happened during the day-time, there would have been many more deaths.
1987年10月16日，星期五，飓风袭击了英格兰的东南部。从午夜时分至早晨6时，飓风横扫英格兰东南角，风速高达每小时160公里。19人丧生。要是飓风发生在白天，那么死亡人数将会更多。
England usually has plenty of rain every month of the year. And Scotland sometimes has very strong winds, especially in winter. However, that night was the worst one in history. It had been raining heavily for two days and the ground was very wet. Besides, it was autumn and therefore the trees still had their leaves on. For these reasons, the strong winds pushed over the trees very easily.
英格兰通常一年中每个月都下许多雨。有时候，特别是在冬天，苏格兰刮非常强烈的风。可是，那晚上却是历史上最糟的一个晚上。大雨连续下了两天，地面非常湿。再者又是秋天，树上还有树叶。由于这些原因，大风很容易把树刮倒。
In the morning people woke up and found the world outside their houses completely changed. Fifteen million trees had been blown down by the high winds, blocking roads, paths and railway lines. Electricity lines as well as telephone poles were brought down by falling trees or branches. Many towns and villages had their water supply cut off because there was no electricity. The people who had water offered baths to their neighbours. Many people had to use lamps, as there was no electricity.
早上，人们醒来时，发现房屋外边的世界完全变了样。1500万棵树被狂风刮倒，堵塞了大路小道和铁路线。树木和树枝刮倒时，把电线连同电线杆一起都撞倒了。因为没有电，许多城镇和乡村都断了水。那些有水的人家主动给他们的邻居提供生活用水。因为没有电，许多人不得不用油灯。
Many people had luckly escapes. One woman was lying in bed, awake, listening to the rushing winds. A tree fell onto her cottage and onto the other half of her bed. One family lived in a house with very tall trees all around. When the winds started to get strong, the family decided that it was not safe to remain in the house. They took plastic sheets and blankets into a field nearby and spent the rest of the night there. One tree fell onto the house and one of its branches broke the bed in which the daughter had been sleeping.
许多人幸运地逃离危险。有位妇女正醒着，躺在床上，听着那呼啸而过的大风。一棵树倒在她的房屋上，落在床铺的另半边上。有一家人住在四周都有大树的屋子里。风开始刮得厉害的时候，这家人认为留在家里不安全。他们抱起塑料床单和毯子，跑到屋子附近的一块空地度过了后半夜。一棵树倒在屋顶上，一根树枝把女儿原来睡的床砸断了。
It took weeks to clear all the roads and to mend all the broken electricity lines and telephone lines. The army was called in to cut through fallen trees and to help clear the roads and paths. Electricity and telephone workers from other parts of Britain travelled south to help repair the damage. They worked long hours for several weeks before everything returned to normal.