与闪电亲密接触的人

But first, our stop is here in Britain. They say lightning never strikes twice, but Eric Brocklebank knows otherwise. He's had three close encounters with lightning and is lucky to be alive at all. It was five years ago this week that it happened.
这一站我们来到英国。人们常说闪电不会击中两次，但是埃里克·布洛克雷班克明白事实并非如此。他曾三次与闪电亲密接触并幸运的活到现在。事情发生在五年前的这一周。

It struck on a playground. I was with a group of air cadets, a regional competition. It was a notching competition, all drill competition, no commands. I was watching them and it started to rain. I put my collar up. And just as I put my collar up, a bolt of lightning "woo" whizzed past me in the mid of strange noise and hit the perimeter fence which was probably about 18 foot away from me. And I just turned around to the cadets and the young lady who was aside me screamed: "You all right, Eric?" "Yeah, I'm Okay." I signalled cadets to stop and as I turned around, the lady shouted: "Eric, your face is brilliant red." I said: "No, I'll, I'll be okay." "Sure you're all right?" "Yeah, I'm okay." So I took the air cadets away from the danger area and left them in the minibus with four volunteers with me to a very large NAFI tent, a big tent which the army used for feeding.
当时它打在操场上。我和一组航校学员一起进行区域竞赛，那是个升级赛，练习赛，没有指挥。我正看着他们的时候就下起雨来。于是我把领子竖起来。就在我竖领子时，一道闪电“呜”地发着怪声从我旁边嗖嗖而过，打在离我大约18英尺开外的栅栏周围。我转向学员们的时候，一位在我身旁的年轻女士惊叫道：“你还好吗，埃里克？”我说：“啊，我没事。”我示意学员们停止竞赛，当我转身时，那位女士喊着：“埃里克，你的脸好红啊！”我说：“没有，我没事的。”“你确定你没事吗？”“是的，我很好。”于是我带这些航校学员离开这片危险区域，然后我和他们还有四位志愿者乘坐迷你巴士去到为军队提供给养的NAFI（全国飞行教练员协会）的大帐篷那里了。