Name: 美國人到底是怎麼說話的？| 與阿什維爾洪災倖存者一起上英語課 (How do Americans REALLY Speak? | English Lesson with Asheville Flood Survivors)
Uploaded: 2025-09-16T17:57:19.000Z
Duration: 17 min 40 s

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I recently visited Asheville, North Carolina about one year after the devastating Hurricane Helene.

我最近訪問了北卡羅來納州的阿什維爾，大約是在毀滅性的海倫颶風一年之後。

North Carolina is cleaning up from the worst flooding ever on record for the state.

北卡羅來納州正在清理該州有史以來最嚴重的洪災。

Today, we're going to talk with some residents of Asheville and study English vocabulary in this English lesson.

今天，我們將與阿什維爾的一些居民交談，並在這節英語課上學習英語詞彙。

I have a background in opera singing, and I've been teaching the American accent to non-native speakers for over 20 years.

我有歌劇演唱的背景，20 多年來一直在教非母語人士學習美式口音。

Scan this QR code or go to rachelsenglish.com slash free to get my free course, The Top Three Ways to Master the American Accent.

掃描此二維碼或訪問 rachelsenglish.com slash free 獲取我的免費課程《掌握美式口音的三大方法》。

It will change the way you think about speaking American English.

它將改變你說美式英語的思維方式。

On September 27, 2024, Hurricane Helene went over Asheville, North Carolina, a region already drenched with rain, causing devastating flooding and killing over 100 people in North Carolina.

2024 年 9 月 27 日，颶風 "海倫 "掠過北卡羅來納州的阿什維爾，這個地區已經被大雨淋透，造成了毀滅性的洪災，北卡羅來納州有 100 多人喪生。

I sat down with an Asheville resident, Rodney, the father of one of my dear friends from growing up in Florida, to hear about that day.

我和一位名叫羅德尼的阿什維爾居民坐在一起，他是我在佛羅里達長大的一位好友的父親，我想聽聽他講述那天的事情。

Okay, we live on Swannanoa River Road, and we're about two and a half blocks from the river itself.

好吧，我們住在斯旺納諾亞河路，離河有兩個半街區。

And when the storm hit, the next morning I went down to the river as close as I could get to it, and it took a couple of days for the river to get to where I could get across the bridge, and there were literally at least 100 cars and at least 25 to 50 semi-trailers.

暴風雨來臨時，第二天一早，我就跑到河邊，儘量靠近河邊，過了好幾天，河水才漲到我能過橋的地方，河面上至少有 100 輛汽車和 25 到 50 輛半拖車。

The whole thing together is called a semi-trailer truck, but it's usually shortened to just semi.

整輛卡車被稱為半掛卡車，但通常簡稱為 semi。

There are a lot of semis on the road today.

Literally is a word that gets misused in English a lot.

在英語中，"字面意義 "是一個經常被誤用的詞。

It gets misused when people use it even though they're exaggerating.

當人們誇大其詞時，它就會被誤用。

There were literally millions of cars in the river.

In this case, you shouldn't use literally.

在這種情況下，你不應該使用字面意思。

But here, the numbers that Rodney is giving me are real, so he uses the word literally so that I know he's not exaggerating.

但在這裡，羅德尼給我的數字是真實的，所以他用了 "字面意思 "這個詞，讓我知道他沒有誇大其詞。

There were literally at least 100 cars and at least 25 to 50 semi-trailers that were scattered along the riverbank.

河岸上散落著至少 100 輛汽車和至少 25 至 50 輛半拖車。

Scatter as a verb means to cause to go in different directions.

作為動詞，"散 "的意思是分散到不同的方向。

Here, as an adjective with the ED ending, it's scattered.

在這裡，作為帶 ED 結尾的形容詞，它是分散的。

Another great vocabulary word that means the same thing is strewn.

另一個意思相同的詞彙是 "散落"。

The cars and trucks were strewn along the road by the flood.

汽車和卡車被洪水衝得散落在路上。

And at least 25 to 50 semi-trailers that were scattered along the riverbank and smashed.

還有至少 25 到 50 輛半拖車散落在河岸上，被撞得粉碎。

And I was looking under one of the huge semi-trailers and there was a dead cow, a big one, who had floated down the river, which had to have been a couple of miles that he floated to get to where he landed there near us.

我在一輛巨大的半拖車下面看到一頭死牛，很大，順著河漂流而下，漂了幾英里才漂到我們附近的地方。

When the police and the rescuers came along, they had to check each one of the cars and the trailers and they would put a big X with a circle to show that there were no bodies inside the cars.

當警察和救援人員到來時，他們必須檢查每一輛汽車和拖車，他們會用圓圈畫上一個大大的 "X"，表示車內沒有屍體。

When I was standing there when the water was still rising, I was a good block away from the river and it was coming towards me and I had to keep backing up as the flood was coming through.

當我站在那裡時，水還在上漲，我離河水有一個街區遠，而河水正向我湧來，我不得不在洪水通過時不斷後退。

I was taking a picture down towards the other side of the river and there was this house that came floating down the road that was spun on a river road and he, the house hit the light but it kept going and it ended up in Lowe's Garden Center.

我當時正在河對岸拍照，有一棟房子漂到了河邊的公路上，房子撞上了路燈，但還在繼續漂，最後漂到了洛氏園藝中心。

Here, he's describing a house that floated down the river and ran into a light.

在這裡，他描述的是一座漂流到河上的房子撞上了一盞燈。

This was a surprising occurrence, the flood lifting whole houses with people inside off of their foundations.

令人驚訝的是，洪水將整棟房子連同裡面的人從地基上掀起。

That is, the part of the house that's underground that supports the structure of the house itself.

也就是房屋地下支撐房屋結構的部分。

We can use this word for situations other than buildings as well.

我們也可以把這個詞用於建築物以外的情況。

You could use it to mean the starting point or the basis of something.

你可以用它來表示某件事情的起點或基礎。

For example, the foundation of a good relationship is communication.

例如，良好關係的基礎是溝通。

It's the base layer applied before other makeup.

它是在其他化妝品之前使用的打底層。

What happened was, I was trying to find a way to get to Sarah and Chris's house here and I went out to 40 to the next exit on the way to Black Mountain.

事情是這樣的，我當時正在想辦法去莎拉和克里斯的家，然後我就去了 40 號公路的下一個出口，去黑山的路上。

I got off the exit to try to come back into Asheville but the bridge was out.

我從出口下了車，試圖回到阿什維爾，但橋已經斷了。

I stopped by the bridge and got out to take some pictures.

我在橋邊停了下來，下車拍了幾張照片。

There were some people that were by the river and they had these large sticks and they were poking down the river on the bank looking for things.

河邊有一些人，他們拿著大棍子，在河岸上探頭探腦地找東西。

I asked the man that was there, I said, what are you looking for?

He told me that they live on the hill up from the river and they had walked down as the flood was beginning to where these two houses were in a row.

他告訴我，他們住在河邊的山上，洪水開始時，他們走下來，看到這兩棟房子連成一排。

There was a couple in one of the houses and they were trying to help them get out but the river had surrounded the house.

其中一棟房子裡有一對夫婦，他們正試圖幫助他們逃出去，但河水已經包圍了房子。

While they were trying to do all this, the two houses lifted up off their foundation and one of them floated down the river and hit the bridge, which was what knocked out the bridge.

就在他們努力做這些事情的時候，兩座房子從地基上翹了起來，其中一座順著河漂流而下，撞到了橋上，橋也是以被撞塌了。

The other one went down a street and turned on its side and that was the house that the couple was in.

另一輛沿著一條街道行駛，然後轉向一側，那就是那對夫婦所在的房子。

The rescue people came and they cut a hole in the roof to try to get the people out, but what they discovered was the people already washed down the river so they weren't able to save them.

救援人員來了，他們在屋頂上開了一個洞，試圖把人救出來，但他們發現人已經被衝到河裡去了，所以沒能救出來。

That's what they were looking for, the couple.

I've been through probably 12 to 15 hurricanes in Florida and I had never ever seen anything as bad as this.

我在佛羅里達大概經歷過 12 到 15 次颶風，從來沒有見過這麼嚴重的颶風。

This is Rodney's daughter, Sarah, my friend from high school.

這是羅德尼的女兒莎拉，我的高中同學。

I get together with Sarah and six other awesome ladies from growing up every year and this year we were in Asheville.

我每年都會和莎拉以及其他六位從小一起長大的很棒的女士聚在一起，今年我們來到了阿什維爾。

We had no access or no way to communicate with anyone from the outside world.

我們無法與外界聯繫，也沒有辦法與外界任何人溝通。

The outside world is a term used to describe the rest of the world outside of a restricted remote space.

外部世界是一個術語，用來描述受限遠程空間之外的其他世界。

It's used to show a lack of communication with the rest of the world.

它被用來表示與世界其他地方缺乏交流。

Sarah was able to contact her neighbors only.

She couldn't get out of her neighborhood because of all the trees that fell on the roads and she couldn't reach any family including her parents who also lived in Asheville because the cell service was down.

由於道路上的樹木倒伏，她無法走出自己的社區，而且由於手機服務中斷，她無法聯繫到任何家人，包括她住在阿什維爾的父母。

They were cut off from the outside world.

We had no access or no way to communicate with anyone from the outside world and so we lost our cell service like a few hours after the storm ended and we so we couldn't communicate even like okay no so I wasn't able to communicate with my parents for over 24 hours and we couldn't get out so we had to cut our way out of our neighborhood so people were just walking around with chainsaws like sawing chainsawing the trees so they could get out of the neighborhoods so we could get to them but we couldn't contact anyone in my family to let them know we were okay um and we had so everyone else in the world knew what was going on and we had no idea because we didn't have any way to find out.

我們無法與外界取得聯繫 暴風雨結束幾小時後，我們就失去了手機信號 我們無法與外界聯繫，甚至無法與父母聯繫 超過24小時，我們無法離開人們拿著電鋸到處走 像鋸電鋸一樣鋸樹 這樣他們就能離開社區 我們就能去找他們 但我們無法聯繫到家裡的任何人 讓他們知道我們沒事 我們有 所以世界上其他人都知道發生了什麼事

The city of Asheville has done an amazing job trying to clean up the debris over the past year but there was still evidence as we drove around the town.

過去一年，阿什維爾市在清理廢墟方面做了大量工作，但我們驅車在市內轉了一圈，仍有痕跡可尋。

I asked Sarah about their lives right after the storm came through.

我問莎拉暴風雨過後他們的生活情況。

So Sarah when the hurricane hit you were thinking probably not a big deal?

所以莎拉在颶風來襲的時候，你覺得可能沒什麼大不了的？

Yeah I mean having been born and raised in Florida I've lived through lots of hurricanes and we don't have hurricanes in western North Carolina so I thought it was basically going to just be a lot of rain.

是啊，我是說，我在佛羅里達出生長大，經歷過很多颶風，而我們北卡羅來納州西部沒有颶風，所以我以為基本上只會下很多雨。

And it was a lot of rain which was part of the problem because it had been raining for two days before the hurricane even hit.

雨下得很大，這也是問題的一部分，因為在颶風來襲之前，雨已經下了兩天。

If you're blown away by something that means you can hardly believe it.

如果你被某件事情所震撼，那就意味著你幾乎無法相信它。

One thing that blew me away was you said you were without power and water for how long?

讓我大吃一驚的是，你說你停電停水停了多久？

Yes so we were without power for a little over a month and we were without water for over two months.

是的，我們停電一個多月，停水兩個多月。

So how did you deal with not having power?

那麼，你是如何處理沒有權力的問題的？

So it uh was really good at getting our kids to go to bed when it was dark because it was pitch black.

是以，天黑的時候，它能很好地讓我們的孩子上床睡覺，因為當時一片漆黑。

Pitch black is a phrase that we use to mean the darkest darkest black.

我們用 "漆黑一片 "來形容最深的黑色。

Pitch is a thick sticky substance that comes from the distillation residue of coal.

瀝青是一種粘稠物質，來自煤的蒸餾殘渣。

And this has been used for waterproofing.

I think of it especially as something that's used in roofing.

是以，它不僅僅是黑暗或非常黑暗。

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