和老外聊天的地道口語第132期:見證汶川大地震

M: so far, the quake in Sichuan has killed about 69,172 people and has left 374,159 people injured, 17,420 missing.

L: I feel so sorry for those victims. It's the scariest thing that I have ever seen.

M: did you feel the quake?

L: yes. Actually, I was traveling in Sichuan then.

M: oh,really? I didn't know that. Tell me what it was like.

L: well, it was on a Monday afternoon, a little after two o'clock, and I was reading some magazines when there was horrible grinding sound and the floor started bouncing and shaking.

M: oh, my dear! What did you do?

L: well, it took me a second or two to figure out what was going on. Then I called my colleague. It's unbelievable that she was still asleep and didn't feel a thing.

M: incredible.

L: as she realized what was happening, she panicked.

M: that must have been horrifying.

L: oh, it was. Then I managed to open the door and we finally made our way to safety.

M: oh, thank God. Was anyone hurt?

L: three people were killed and about fifty people were injured.

M: what a tragedy!

L: it was terrible. I hope it will never happen again!

到目前爲止,四川汶川地震已造成69172人遇難,374159人受傷,17420人失蹤.
真爲那些遇難者感到惋惜.這是我所見過的最恐怖的事情.
你當時感受到地震了嗎?
感受到了,事實上,我當時就在四川省內.
是嗎?我之前沒聽你說過啊.跟我說說當時怎麼回事?
那天是週一,下午兩點多一點,我正在看雜誌,那時忽然聽見劇烈的擠壓聲,地板開始晃動.
哦,天哪,你當時怎麼辦的?

我過了一會兒才明白是怎麼回事,之後我趕快打電話給我的同事.不可思議的是,她當時還在睡覺,什麼都沒感覺到.
太不可思議了!
後來明白了怎麼回事後,她慌得不知所措.
一定很恐怖吧!
是啊.隨後我用力打開門,我們拼命跑到了一個安全的地方.
哦,謝天謝地!有人受傷嗎?
死了三個人,受傷的大約有50個人.
太慘了! 是很可怕,真希望不要再發生這種事了!

Then I managed to open the door and we finally made our way to safety. 隨後我用力打開門,我們拼命跑到了一個安全的地方.

在英語中,'make your way to/towards sth'就是去,前往,前進的意思.

Would passengers please make their way to gate 15 for the flight to Paris. 乘坐去巴黎航班的乘客請前往15號登機口.

Don't worry, we can make our own way to the airport. 別擔心,我們可以自己去機場.

對話中"made our way to safety"就是跑到安全地方的意思.

y: frightening 恐怖的;嚇人的 adjective informal

It was a really scary moment. 那一刻真是嚇人.
a scary movie 恐怖電影

c: to suddenly feel frightened so that you cannot think clearly and you say or do something stupid, dangerous, etc.; to make somebody do this (使)驚慌,驚慌失措

I panicked when I saw smoke coming out of the engine. 我看見發動機冒煙時,嚇得手足無措.
The gunfire panicked the horses. 槍聲驚嚇到馬匹.

ifying: making you feel extremely shocked, disgusted or frightened 令人極其震驚的(或厭惡的、恐懼的)

a horrifying sight/experience/story 恐怖的景象╱經歷╱故事
It's horrifying to see such poverty. 看到這種貧困狀況令人震驚.