美语情景对话 第357期:The Crash 摔倒

We have a lot of great ski areas in Colorado so I started skiing at a very early age. I think I was about 5 or 6 years old when I began and one time I went up the chair lift and on the first run down in the morning I was skiing on a pretty icy section and I got going pretty fast and suddenly I hit a much softer patch of snow and it threw me forward and I had a terrible crash and I couldn't move my leg so my dad asked someone to call the ski patrol and when the ski patrol came down they put me in a sled and the ski patrol skied in front of the sled and took me all the way down to the medical clinic. They have a small clinic with doctors right at the ski area. Although they don't have the equipment to, to fix my leg.

科罗拉多州有很多很棒的滑雪场，所以我很小就开始滑雪了。我想那大概是5、6岁的时候，有一次上午的时候，我坐升降椅上去，在第一次滑下来的时候，我是在一个结了很多冰的区域上滑的，我滑的速度很快，可是突然我撞到了一块柔软的雪，然后我就冲向前面摔倒了，当时我的腿不能动，所以我爸爸让别人给滑雪巡逻队打电话，滑雪巡逻队来了以后把我放在雪橇上，然后他们在雪橇前面滑，一直把我带去了医疗诊所，那里有滑雪场的医生。不过他们并没有设备来固定我的腿。

They didn't have the equipment to fix my leg, but they did immobilize my leg, make it so I couldn't move it, so it would be protected while my dad drove me down to the city to take me to a bigger hospital. At the hospital they put my leg in a cast and then they gave me crutches, which I used for about two or three months, so I remember I was in first grade and all of the other students signed my cast, wrote their name on my cast, so it was actually kind of fun in the end.

虽然他们没有设备来固定我的腿，但是他们确实为我固定了，那会保护我，而我不能动，之后我爸爸开车带我去了城市里的大医院。医院给我的腿打了石膏，给了我拐杖，那个拐杖我大概用了两三个月，我记得我考到第一名的时候，班里其他的同学都在我的石膏上签名，所以最后真的很有乐趣。

重点讲解：
1. in front of
在…前面；靠近…前部；
eg. She sat down in front of her dressing-table mirror to look at herself.
她在梳妆台的镜子前面坐下端详自己。
eg. A police car was parked in front of the house.
一辆警车停在这幢房子前面。
2. all the way
（强调距离）一路；
eg. He rushed all the way to the station only to miss the train.
他一路冲往车站，结果还是错过了火车。
eg. I had to cycle all the way to work against the wind.
我不得不一路顶着风去上班。
3. in the end
最后；终于；
eg. In the end, we all decided to organize a concert for Easter.
最终，我们一致决定组织一场复活节音乐会。
eg. After many years of hard work, he won the award in the end.
经过许多年的努力，他最后终于获得了大奖。