BBC环球慢速英语 第21期:相信你的记忆(1)

voice 1: Thank you for joining us for Spotlight. I'm David Bast.
声音1：谢谢大家收听重点报道节目。我是大卫·贝斯特。

voice 2: And I'm Liz Waid. Spotlight uses a special English method of broadcasting. It is easier for people to understand, no matter where in the world they live.
声音2：我是利兹·韦德。重点报道节目用慢速英语的方式播报新闻。便于全世界各地民众的理解。

voice 1: How good is your memory? Can you depend on your memories to be correct? Today's Spotlight is about memory.
声音1：你的记忆有多好？你相信你的记忆是正确的吗？今天重点报道节目的主题就是记忆。

voice 2: Paul Doherty is a writer from the United States. He describes a memory for us.
声音2：保罗·多赫提是一名美国作家。他给我们描述了他记得的一件事。

voice 3: "I, my friend Martin, and a small group were climbing in the mountains. We climbed with two ropes. Martin and I climbed using the first rope. We had already reached the highest point of the mountain. And we could see that a storm was coming. We knew that we needed to protect ourselves. We climbed a little way back to a shelter area. We would be safe there.
声音3：“我和我朋友马丁还有其他人去爬山。我们用两条绳子辅助爬山。马丁和我用第一条绳子。我们已经到达了最高峰。这时我们看到风暴就要来了。我们知道我们要保护自己。所以我们往回走到了掩蔽区。在那里我们会是安全的。

Not all of the people in our group had reached the top of the mountain yet. They were using the second rope to climb. So we stayed at the shelter to wait for them.
我们一行人中还有人没有到达最高峰。他们爬山时用的是第二条绳子。所以我们留在庇护地等他们。

I can still see it like it was yesterday! People on the second rope were still climbing the side of the mountain. The lightening came from the sky. It hit the rope. Some of the people in the group were still using that rope to climb! The people on the rope were not seriously harmed. But they were very frightened.
现在我还能清楚地看到当时的情景，就好像那是昨天发生的一样！用第二条绳子的人们还在山的一侧攀爬。这时闪电划破了天空。闪电击中了绳子。当时还有一些人在借助那条绳子爬山！幸运的是那些人受伤并不严重。但是他们被吓坏了。

I remember clearly that, after the storm stopped, I helped the climbers off the second rope to the shelter. I was waiting for them as they came over the edge of the cliff."
我清楚地记得，暴雨停止以后，我帮助一些登山者从第二条绳子处下来，进入庇护地。他们从悬崖边过来时我正在等他们。”