美語情景對話 第357期:The Crash 摔倒

We have a lot of great ski areas in Colorado so I started skiing at a very early age. I think I was about 5 or 6 years old when I began and one time I went up the chair lift and on the first run down in the morning I was skiing on a pretty icy section and I got going pretty fast and suddenly I hit a much softer patch of snow and it threw me forward and I had a terrible crash and I couldn't move my leg so my dad asked someone to call the ski patrol and when the ski patrol came down they put me in a sled and the ski patrol skied in front of the sled and took me all the way down to the medical clinic. They have a small clinic with doctors right at the ski area. Although they don't have the equipment to, to fix my leg.

科羅拉多州有很多很棒的滑雪場，所以我很小就開始滑雪了。我想那大概是5、6歲的時候，有一次上午的時候，我坐升降椅上去，在第一次滑下來的時候，我是在一個結了很多冰的區域上滑的，我滑的速度很快，可是突然我撞到了一塊柔軟的雪，然後我就衝向前面摔倒了，當時我的腿不能動，所以我爸爸讓別人給滑雪巡邏隊打電話，滑雪巡邏隊來了以後把我放在雪橇上，然後他們在雪橇前面滑，一直把我帶去了醫療診所，那裏有滑雪場的醫生。不過他們並沒有設備來固定我的腿。

They didn't have the equipment to fix my leg, but they did immobilize my leg, make it so I couldn't move it, so it would be protected while my dad drove me down to the city to take me to a bigger hospital. At the hospital they put my leg in a cast and then they gave me crutches, which I used for about two or three months, so I remember I was in first grade and all of the other students signed my cast, wrote their name on my cast, so it was actually kind of fun in the end.

雖然他們沒有設備來固定我的腿，但是他們確實爲我固定了，那會保護我，而我不能動，之後我爸爸開車帶我去了城市裏的大醫院。醫院給我的腿打了石膏，給了我柺杖，那個柺杖我大概用了兩三個月，我記得我考到第一名的時候，班裏其他的同學都在我的石膏上簽名，所以最後真的很有樂趣。

重點講解：
1. in front of
在…前面；靠近…前部；
eg. She sat down in front of her dressing-table mirror to look at herself.
她在梳妝檯的鏡子前面坐下端詳自己。
eg. A police car was parked in front of the house.
一輛警車停在這幢房子前面。
2. all the way
（強調距離）一路；
eg. He rushed all the way to the station only to miss the train.
他一路衝往車站，結果還是錯過了火車。
eg. I had to cycle all the way to work against the wind.
我不得不一路頂着風去上班。
3. in the end
最後；終於；
eg. In the end, we all decided to organize a concert for Easter.
最終，我們一致決定組織一場復活節音樂會。
eg. After many years of hard work, he won the award in the end.
經過許多年的努力，他最後終於獲得了大獎。