NCE-2 53 Hot snake

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Lesson 53 Hot snake 触电的蛇

At last firemen have put out a big forest fire in California. Since then, they have been trying to find out how the fire began. Forest fire are often caused by broken glass or by cigarette ends which people carelessly throw away. Yesterday the firemen examined the ground carefully, but were not able to find any broken glass. They were also quite sure that a cigarette end did not start the fire. This morning, however, a fireman accidentally discovered the cause. He noticed the remains of a snake which was wound round the electric wires of a 16,000-volt power line. In this way, he was able to solve the mystery. The explanation was simple but very unusual. A bird had snatched up the snake from the ground and then dropped it on to the wires. The snake then wound itself round the wires. When it did so, it sent sparks down to the ground and these immediately started a fire.

消防队员们终于扑灭了加利福尼亚的一场森林大火。从那时起，他们一直试图找出起火的原因。森林火灾时常由破碎的玻璃或人们随手扔掉的香烟头引起。昨天，消防队员仔细查看了地面，但未能发现碎玻璃。他们还十分肯定火灾也不是由烟头引起的。然而今天上午，一个消防队员偶然发现了起火的原因。他发现了缠绕在16,000伏高压线上的一条死蛇。就这样，他解开了起火之谜。解释很简单，却异乎寻常。一只鸟把蛇从地上抓起来，然后把它扔到了电线上。于是蛇就缠住了几根电线。当它这样做时，把火花送到了地面，这些火花立刻引起了一场大火。

• be caused by
• or/and 前后 prep-phr or prep-phr
• carelessly 不走心地; 随意地
• throw away = throw out 扔掉, 丢掉
  • throw noun. away / throw away noun.
• examine 仔细检查 look at it carefully
• remains 一定是复数 遗体; 残骸
• wind(wound, wound) 卷绕;缠绕 wrap it around it several times
• electric wire 电线
• volt UK [vɒlt] US [voʊlt]
• power line 电源线，输电线
• solve
  • solve a mystery/puzzle 揭开秘密/谜底
  • solve a problem/question 解决问题
  • solve the crime 破案
• explanation 解释,原因 reasons or details for it
• snatch 一把抓住 take it or pull it away quickly

From A Fireman's View:

We have finally put out a large forest fire in California. Since then, we have been trying to find out how the fire began. A forest fire is usally caused by broken glass or a cigarret end which people carelessly throw away. We examined the ground yesterday. We didn't found any broken glass. And we don't think a cigarret started the fire. This morning, I noticed the remains of a snake wound aroud the wire line. How could it climb so high? I noticed the power line is 16,000 volt. It might genereate spark and the spark would start the forest fire if the snake touched such a high voltage power line. So we guessed that a bird had snatched the snake up from the groud and dropped it on to the wires. Then the generated spark was sent down to the ground and caused the fire. The mystery have finally been solved.

Knowledges

• spark 可数名词

From A Witness View:

I wasn't able to stop being frighten even though a week have passed. That day, I walked through the forest in California. Then I met a snake twenty feets away from me. It was crawling towards me when it saw me. I was so scared that my two feet was shivering and I was not able to ran away. Suddenly an eagle flew and snatched the snake up to the sky. The snake struggled so hard that it managed to shake off from the eangle's talons. But unfortunely, the snake dropped on to a high pressure power line. As soon as it touched the 16,000 volt wire line, sparks generated and were sent down to the ground and caused a fire. Soon, the fire became a large forest fire. It took me two hours in running to escape from the large fire.

Knowledges

• 鹰 hawk eagle
• talon 猛禽强有力的爪
  • fingernail 手指甲
  • claw〔动物、鸟、昆虫的〕爪
  • paw （猫、狗、熊等的）爪子，脚掌

Remembers

• solve
  • solve a mystery/puzzle 揭开秘密/谜底
  • solve a problem/question 解决问题
  • solve the crime 破案

2017-02-07
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