VOA常速英语:Golf Star Tiger Woods Injured in Car Crash

Professional American golfer Tiger Woods underwent surgery after sustaining injuries to both his legs during a single car accident in California Tuesday.
美国职业高尔夫球手老虎·伍兹于周二在加利福尼亚遭遇车祸，两腿接连受伤，之后接受手术。
The car reportedly rolled over near Rancho Palos Verdes California located about 32 kilometers south of Los Angeles.
车辆在洛杉矶的派洛斯福德庄(Rancho Palos Verdes)附近侧翻，该地位于洛杉矶南部约32千米处。
Officials said Woods had to be extracted from the wreckage.
官方称，他们不得不将伍茨拉出失事车辆。
Video footage of the crash scene showed a vehicle with a badly damaged front end on its side in a ditch at the bottom of a hill.
车祸现场录像显示，车辆侧翻在山体下方的沟壑中，前端受损严重。
Pieces of the car were spotted around the wreckage.
失事车辆周边有掉落的汽车残骸。
The time it made it cross the center divider to the point that it rested was several hundred feet away,
车辆驶过中心隔离带的地点和掉落地点有几百尺远，
so obviously that indicates they were going at a relatively greater speed than normal.
所以车速很明显比正常情况下更快，
However because it is downhill,it slopes and it also curves,that area has a high frequency of accidents is not uncommon.
但是因为是在下坡弯道处，失事频率高是正常的。
Woods, 45, was in the Los Angeles area for the PGA Tours Genesis Invitational,a tournament run by his charity.
45岁的伍茨来洛杉矶参加PGA巡回赛捷恩斯邀请赛，这也是他的慈善机构运营的比赛。
The 15-time major tournament winner did not play in the tournament because he was recovering from a December 23rd back surgery,
伍茨是15次大型锦标赛获胜者，因为在12月23日做过背部手术，还在恢复，所以没有参加锦标赛。
the fifth such procedure for one of golfs all-time greats.
对于这位有史以来最好的高尔夫球手之一来说，这已经是第五次腰部手术了。
He last played on December 20th in the PNC championship with his young son Charlie.
他上一次参赛是在12月20日，和他的儿子查理一起参加PNC锦标赛。
In 2019 then US president Donald Trump awarded Woods the Presidential Medal of Freedom,
2019年，当时的美国总统唐纳德·特朗普授予其总统自由勋章，
the highest civilian honor in the Country,after woods won his 15th major championship.
这也是美国最高平民荣誉，时间是在伍茨赢下15次大型锦标赛后。