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Lesson 53 Hot snake 觸電的蛇

At last firemen have put out a big forest fire in California. Since then, they have been trying to find out how the fire began. Forest fire are often caused by broken glass or by cigarette ends which people carelessly throw away. Yesterday the firemen examined the ground carefully, but were not able to find any broken glass. They were also quite sure that a cigarette end did not start the fire. This morning, however, a fireman accidentally discovered the cause. He noticed the remains of a snake which was wound round the electric wires of a 16,000-volt power line. In this way, he was able to solve the mystery. The explanation was simple but very unusual. A bird had snatched up the snake from the ground and then dropped it on to the wires. The snake then wound itself round the wires. When it did so, it sent sparks down to the ground and these immediately started a fire.

消防隊員們終于撲滅了加利福尼亞的一場森林大火。從那時起，他們一直試圖找出起火的原因。森林火災(zāi)時常由破碎的玻璃或人們隨手扔掉的香煙頭引起。昨天，消防隊員仔細查看了地面，但未能發(fā)現(xiàn)碎玻璃。他們還十分肯定火災(zāi)也不是由煙頭引起的。然而今天上午，一個消防隊員偶然發(fā)現(xiàn)了起火的原因。他發(fā)現(xiàn)了纏繞在16,000伏高壓線上的一條死蛇。就這樣，他解開了起火之謎。解釋很簡單，卻異乎尋常。一只鳥把蛇從地上抓起來，然后把它扔到了電線上。于是蛇就纏住了幾根電線。當(dāng)它這樣做時，把火花送到了地面，這些火花立刻引起了一場大火。

• be caused by
• or/and 前后 prep-phr or prep-phr
• carelessly 不走心地; 隨意地
• throw away = throw out 扔掉, 丟掉
  • throw noun. away / throw away noun.
• examine 仔細檢查 look at it carefully
• remains 一定是復(fù)數(shù) 遺體; 殘骸
• wind(wound, wound) 卷繞;纏繞 wrap it around it several times
• electric wire 電線
• volt UK [v?lt] US [vo?lt]
• power line 電源線，輸電線
• solve
  • solve a mystery/puzzle 揭開秘密/謎底
  • solve a problem/question 解決問題
  • solve the crime 破案
• explanation 解釋,原因 reasons or details for it
• snatch 一把抓住 take it or pull it away quickly

From A Fireman's View:

We have finally put out a large forest fire in California. Since then, we have been trying to find out how the fire began. A forest fire is usally caused by broken glass or a cigarret end which people carelessly throw away. We examined the ground yesterday. We didn't found any broken glass. And we don't think a cigarret started the fire. This morning, I noticed the remains of a snake wound aroud the wire line. How could it climb so high? I noticed the power line is 16,000 volt. It might genereate spark and the spark would start the forest fire if the snake touched such a high voltage power line. So we guessed that a bird had snatched the snake up from the groud and dropped it on to the wires. Then the generated spark was sent down to the ground and caused the fire. The mystery have finally been solved.

Knowledges

• spark 可數(shù)名詞

From A Witness View:

I wasn't able to stop being frighten even though a week have passed. That day, I walked through the forest in California. Then I met a snake twenty feets away from me. It was crawling towards me when it saw me. I was so scared that my two feet was shivering and I was not able to ran away. Suddenly an eagle flew and snatched the snake up to the sky. The snake struggled so hard that it managed to shake off from the eangle's talons. But unfortunely, the snake dropped on to a high pressure power line. As soon as it touched the 16,000 volt wire line, sparks generated and were sent down to the ground and caused a fire. Soon, the fire became a large forest fire. It took me two hours in running to escape from the large fire.

Knowledges

• 鷹 hawk eagle
• talon 猛禽強有力的爪
  • fingernail 手指甲
  • claw〔動物、鳥、昆蟲的〕爪
  • paw （貓、狗、熊等的）爪子，腳掌

Remembers

• solve
  • solve a mystery/puzzle 揭開秘密/謎底
  • solve a problem/question 解決問題
  • solve the crime 破案

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