VOA常速英语:Woman who fled Las Vegas shooting returns a year later to get married

My name is Lacey West. I’m 28 years old. My name is Elizabeth West. Lacey is my daughter, she’s my youngest. We were both at the Las Vegas massacre last year on October 1st of 2017. It was really crazy. I didn’t think it was bullets at first. I didn’t think there was any kind of danger. I told her “get down, get down,” and after about the third round of the automatic firing went off, there was probably the longest break after the third round. And that’s when we started trying to crawl out from underneath the the bars to get out.After that, seeing just everyone just cleaning out of there, running like hats everywhere, boots everywhere, like the ground is completely sopping wet with drinks that everyone abandoned. The rails were all knocked over just to get through, get away.
我叫蕾西·韦斯特。我今年28岁。我叫伊丽莎白·韦斯特。蕾西是我女儿，她是我最小的孩子。去年10月1日，拉斯维加斯发生大屠杀的时候，我们都在场。真的太疯狂了，一开始我没想到那是子弹，我也完全没想到那里会有危险。我告诉我女儿“趴下，快趴下”，大约在第三轮连续射击结束后，间隔了比较长的一段时间。就在那时，我们试着从栏杆下面爬出来。然后我看见每个人都从那里跑了出来，大家到处跑，然后帽子和靴子等等全都挤掉在地上，人们丢掉的饮料完全浸湿了地面。人们为了离开，把铁轨都撞翻了。

And Lacey grabbed my arm and later had told me her thought process was, I got to get mom out, I can’t let her fall. And as I was behind her running and I could hear the bullets going. My whole thought process is if I’m behind her they’ll hit me and not her. And so, you know, it’s like the bullets go off and your whole body tenses up, so there’s things that you hear even to this day. And again that brings that back, but you know she thought she was protecting me, and I thought I was protecting her. So you know that’s why we decided to get the tattoos on our arm, because it was where we locked and we held on and protected each other.At first it was uneasy when I came back because seeing the Mandalay Bay again for the first time, it was just really putting into perspective what I couldn’t see in the darkness from that night. Seeing it in the daylight and just like I didn’t know that I wanted to come back here after that. We’re so excited for her to be getting married. We’ve always loved coming to Vegas, so it’s going to take a little bit of the sting away and let us come back here and still have happy memories.
蕾西抓住我的胳膊，后来她告诉我那时候她的想法是，我得把妈妈救出来，我不能把她丢下。我在她身后跑着，能听到子弹的声音。我当时的想法就是，如果我在她后面，那子弹就会打中我，打不到我的女儿。听着子弹划过的声音，我的整个身体都紧绷起来，所以直到今天，我都还能听到那一晚的声音。然后我就又会想起那一晚发生的事情，我的女儿以为她在保护我，而我以为我在保护她。所以后来我们决定在手臂上纹身，因为我们紧密相连，坚持着度过了难关，并且互相保护着彼此。刚回来的时候，我感到很不安，因为再次看到曼德勒海湾时，我总是会回想起那一晚发生的可怕的事情，我不敢在夜里去回想那件事。在日光之下看到这里的风景，我才意识到，发生了那件事之后，我还是想要回到这里。她要结婚了，我们都非常兴奋，我们一直都很喜欢来拉斯维加斯，我觉得这会减轻那件事给我们带来的痛苦，能够让我们回到这里，仍然有美好的回忆。

I think having my anniversary would be the memory every year leading into October 1st,will just be the reminder of how my life changed so much from that event, that it led me to my happiness.Makes me very proud to pronounce you husband and wife. You two may seal your promises with a kiss.
我觉得，我的结婚纪念日会填满我对十月一日的记忆，它将提醒我，在那件事之后，我的生活发生了多么大的变化，它带我走向了幸福。我很荣幸地宣布你们正式结为夫妻，现在新郎可以亲吻新娘了。