万花筒 2008-04-25&-4-26

When I was watching that video, I saw at one point when I was watching it, er, I saw myself on the ground, and it didn’t look like me that’s not the way I sleep, it didn’t look familiar and at one point it did move me a bit that I thought, wow, at that point, I’ve sort of given up, sort of given up, and I can’t walk around any more, I can’t yell¹ any more, maybe even I can’t take the bell any more, I am just done, you win, I played with the alarm bottom. I let it go for a while, then I would like tap out SOS or whatever for a while to see if that…It was pretty obvious to me  that, the bell on the top of the elevator was out of range, if anybody that could possibly hear me, you know, that’s when I wondered, you know wondered if this could be the worst, what a pathetic² way to go, you know that I didn’t actually shed³ a tear, that I can remember, but I did swear, you know, I did yell at the camera, I did hit the wall a couple of times, er, try to move around, but when you got to that stage, I'd have to once again, bring myself back down. The steel cables⁴ aren't gonna break, someone is gonna find you. I hoped. Voice came from the intercom: is there someone in there. And I jumped up, I heard the whole sentence, and I said, yes, there is, there is some tinkering done by a maintenance⁵ worker, and a combination⁶ of bottoms I felt the wind changed, changed its strength, and then I opened the door, it's happened to be like a little bit blow the lobby⁷, saw the lobby and I popped up.

1 yell   

vi./n.号叫，叫喊

参考例句：

• This gave them a chance to yell.这给了他们大声喊叫的机会。
• When his schoolmate made the last goal,the boy gave out with an untrammeled yell.那个男孩在他的同学踢进最后一球时不禁纵声欢呼。

2 pathetic   

adj.悲哀的，可怜的，感伤的，不足的，差强人意的

参考例句：

• The animal gave a pathetic little whimper.这只动物低声哀叫，令人怜悯。
• I refused to go along with their pathetic charade.我拒不跟他们摆出那副可悲的装模作样的姿态。

3 shed   

n.车棚，小屋，脱落之物，分水岭；vt.使流出，放射，脱落，散发，摆脱；vi. 流出

参考例句：

• There are a lot of straws in the shed.棚子里有许多稻草。
• His nose told him that he was getting near the cow shed.他的嗅觉告诉他，他正走近牛棚。

4 cables   

n.电报( cable的名词复数 )；电缆；（系船用的）缆绳；（船只、桥梁等上的）巨缆

参考例句：

• Use the crocodile clips to attach the cables to the battery. 用鳄鱼嘴夹把电缆接到蓄电池上。
• Please don't touch these metal cables inside a plastic sleeve. 请不要碰那些套着塑料管的金属电缆。 来自《简明英汉词典》

5 maintenance   

n.维修，保养，扶养费，维持，保持

参考例句：

• His small farm provides maintenance,but not much more.他的小农场能使他们维持生活，但仅此而已。
• He has to pay maintenance to his ex-wife.他必须给前妻赡养费。

6 combination   

n.组合，合并，联合；

参考例句：

• He carried on the business in combination with his friends.他与朋友们合伙做生意。
• The materials can be used singly or in combination.这些材料可以单独使用也可以混合用。

7 lobby   

n.前厅，（剧院的）门廊

参考例句：

• As he walked through the lobby,he skirted a group of ladies.他穿过门厅时，绕过了一群女士。
• The delegates entered the assembly hall by way of the lobby.代表们通过大厅进入会场。