英语听力：自然百科 雷雨天，最安全的地方是？

 This weekend Why Tell Me Why we’re answering a viewer question about lightning safety. So you want to find out where the safest place to be is in the lightning storm. So where is the safest place to be?

 

Actually, the safest place to be is inside an enclosed¹ building. The main reason is because the wiring and the plumbing² in the building help conduct the electricity from lightning down into the ground.

 

So if lightning strikes your house, you won’t get shocked?

 

You wanna stay away from sinks, showers, electrical devices³, because if lightning strikes your house, there’s a potential that it would carry through the wiring or the plumbing of the house and actually come out through one of those devices.

 

It seems like it's a common myth⁴ perhaps that the safest place to be in a lightning storm is a car. Is that not true?

 

Actually, the second safest place to be is in a car. If you’re caught outside, you can’t get to an enclosed building, getting into a vehicle, an enclosed metal vehicle is a safe place to be. Similar to the wiring or plumbing in a house, the current can travel through the metal outer shell of the vehicle and travel into the ground.

 

So it has nothing to do with the tires, the rubber tires being looked to like, I guess, serve as a barrier or something for the lightening⁵, that’s not true?

 

No, rubber tires do nothing to prevent lightening. In fact in some instances⁶, tires have exploded due to lightening strikes on vehicles.

 

Here in a car that is struck by lightning, what’s the rule, you don’t touch anything for 30 minutes, or so you said?

 

You find yourself in a vehicle and lightning or thunder storms are in the area, you wanna make sure that you keep the door shut, roll up the windows and don’t touch any metal in the vehicle. You probably wanna wait about 30 minutes after the thunder is ended before you get out of the vehicle. You are never truly safe from lightning if you’re outdoors. So if you hear thunder or see lightning or see dark clouds approaching in the sky, you wanna make sure that you immediately head indoors⁷.

 

Lightning is attracted to the tallest objects, typically on the ground, and that’s typically where you’re gonna see struck to tall trees or tall buildings you know. The Empire State building has been struck many times.

 

Tall people?

 

Tall people, yeah …

1 enclosed   

adj.被附上的；（用墙等）围住的；封闭的；与外界隔绝的v.（用墙、篱笆等）把…围起来( enclose的过去式和过去分词 )；把…装入信封；附入；（尤指墙、篱笆等 ）围住

参考例句：

• The yard had been enclosed with iron railings. 院子用铁栅栏围了起来。
• Do not use this substance in an enclosed space. 切勿在不透气的地方使用此物质。

2 plumbing   

n.水管装置；水暖工的工作；管道工程v.用铅锤测量（plumb的现在分词）；探究

参考例句：

• She spent her life plumbing the mysteries of the human psyche. 她毕生探索人类心灵的奥秘。
• They're going to have to put in new plumbing. 他们将需要安装新的水管。 来自《简明英汉词典》

3 devices   

n.设备；装置( device的名词复数 )；花招；（为实现某种目的的）计划；手段

参考例句：

• electrical labour-saving devices around the home 节省劳力的各种家用电器
• modern labour-saving devices such as washing machines and dishwashers 诸如洗衣机和洗碗机之类的现代化省力设备

4 myth   

n.神话，神话故事

参考例句：

• The story has points of resemblance to a Hebrew myth.这个故事与某个希伯来神话有相似之处。
• The story is a pure myth.这故事纯属虚构。

5 lightening   

n.发光v.使（某物）更明亮( lighten的现在分词 )；变得更光明

参考例句：

• The lightening splintered a tree. 闪电把一棵树劈开了。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
• I saw the lightening split the clouds and heard the thunders following. 我看到闪电撕开云层，听到随之而来的雷声。 来自英语晨读30分（高二）

6 instances   

n.例子，实例( instance的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The report highlights a number of instances of injustice. 这篇报道重点列举了一些不公正的实例。
• I can cite quite a few instances to illustrate. 我可以举出好几件事来说明。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》

7 indoors   

adv.(在)室内，(在)户内

参考例句：

• Because of the coldness of the weather we stayed indoors.我们因天气寒冷呆在家里。
• It is very cold outside,you'd better come indoors across the board.外面很冷，你们所有人最好都进屋。