New York City power outage hits thousands in the heart of Manhattan 纽约市停电，曼哈顿中心区数千人受影响

A widespread power outage in the heart of Manhattan on Saturday shut down some of the city’s subways as（伴随状语） iconic parts of midtown, including Times Square and Rockefeller Center, went dark.
周六，曼哈顿中心区的一场大范围停电，使纽约的部分地铁停运，包括时代广场和洛克菲勒中心在内的曼哈顿中城地标也随之陷入黑暗。
Con Edison said it was working to restore power to 73,000 customers, mostly on the west side of Manhattan. The utility tweeted at 10:12 p.m. that power was being restored to affected customers, and that the utility expected to have service restored to most customers by midnight.
联合爱迪生公司称其正在为 7.3 万用户恢复供电，其中多数用户住在曼哈顿西区。该公用事业公司在当晚 10 点 12 分发推特表示，他们正为受波及的用户恢复供电，预计在午夜前多数用户可恢复用电。
Mayor Bill de Blasio, who was campaigning for president in Iowa on Saturday, tweeted that the police and fire departments and other city agencies were working to respond （少了一个to）a manhole fire ***that caused the outage ***.
纽约市长比尔·德·白思豪周六正在爱荷华州参加总统竞选活动。他发推特表示，本次停电由窨井口失火造成，警察局、消防队和纽约市其他机构，都在积极应对此次事故。
Pizza shops on the Upper West Side were still selling lukewarm slices in the dark with flashlights, cash only. In the Park Central Hotel, at least 100 guests were sitting on the ground in the lobby in candlelight. At the Wellington Hotel across the street, guests filed out in the dark holding glow sticks and gathered on the sidewalk.
上西区的披萨店在黑暗中仍借着手电光出售温热的披萨切片，且只收现金。中央公园酒店里，至少有 100 名住客在酒店大堂的烛光中席地而坐。而对面惠灵顿酒店中的住客拿着荧光棒鱼贯而出，聚集在人行道上。
Horse-driven buggies were still clucking around in the blackout, aggressively recruiting riders as Uber prices surged.（注意翻译顺序，as引导的伴随状语）
停电期间，由于优步价格飙升，观光马车仍吱吱呀呀地穿梭不停，竭力揽客。
Saturday’s outage took place on the anniversary of a 1977 New York City outage in which most of the city lost power. The city was also part of a massive power outage in 2003.
周六停电当日，恰逢 1977 年纽约大停电纪念日，当年纽约的大部分城区均遭遇断电。2003 年，纽约也被大范围的停电波及过。

重点词汇

power outage
停电
相关词汇：power（n. 电力）
相关词汇：outage（n. 停电（等）期间）
outage 英文释义：a period when a service, such as electricity, is not available
同义词：power cut（英式表达）
lose power，blackout，outage本身释义也有停电的意思

shut (sth.) down
关闭，使停止运转
搭配短语：shut factories down=shut down factories

iconic/aɪˈkɑːnɪk/
adj.（尤指能代表某种观点或某一时代）非常出名的，受欢迎的
相关词汇：icon（n. 偶像）
词义辨析
icon, idol
两者都可以表示“偶像”，idol 更多指受到很多人喜爱或崇拜的明星，icon 则更突出代表性。
icon 例句：She’s a fashion icon.

midtown/ˈmɪdtaʊn/
n. 曼哈顿中城；市中心
文化补充：在纽约，midtown 特指曼哈顿的中城。曼哈顿是一个狭长的小岛，从北到南分为上城（uptown）、中城（midtown）以及下城（downtown）这三个部分，其中中城是曼哈顿的中心地带。

utility/juːˈtɪləti/
n. 公用事业；（电、煤气、铁路等）公共设施
英文释义：a service that is used by the public
搭配短语：utility bills

fire department
消防队
同义词：fire brigade（英式表达）
相关词汇：brigade（n. 一队人；（军队的）旅）

manhole/ˈmænhoʊl/
n.（地下管线或下水道供人出入检修的）检查井，窨 (yìn) 井
文化补充：在城市的地下，都有管线中转和操作的地下空间，比如供水、污水管道、电话线、网线等等，窨井就是直接通向地面的出入口，上面会有一个窨井盖。

lukewarm/ˌluːkˈwɔːrm/
adj. 温热的

file out
鱼贯而出
相关词汇：file（v. 排成纵队行进）

sidewalk/ˈsaɪdwɔːk/
n. 人行道
例句：Keep on the sidewalk!
相关词汇：pavement（英式表达）

buggy/ˈbʌɡi/
n.（一匹马拉的）轻便马车

cluck/klʌk/
v. 发出吱吱呀呀声；（鸡）咯咯叫；（人）发出啧啧声

blackout/ˈblækaʊt/
n. 停电；昏厥
同义词：power outage（停电）
相关词汇：black out（昏厥）
black out 例句：He blacked out.

surge/sɜːrdʒ/
v. 急剧上升
英文释义：to increase suddenly and strongly