Coming to the Rescue原版英文小故事內(nèi)容：

A 20-year-old man, driving under the influence and at excessive speed early yesterday evening along New York Drive, died after clipping another car. Buddy1 Allen was dead at the scene of the accident. Apparently2, he was not strapped3 into his seat belt at the time he collided with a car in front of him.

Allen was doing about 60 mph on the 35 mph street when his SUV overtook and hit a car driven by Steve Frohman. Frohman, a scratch golfer, had just finished an unpleasant round of golf. He said he was doing the speed limit when he happened to look in his rear view mirror and saw a car coming up on him fast.

Certain that he was about to get rear-ended, Frohman managed to get halfway4 into the adjoining lane. The speeding car hit Frohman’s new sedan, then hit a curb5, and became airborne. Allen flew out of the car, landing on grass near the base of a light pole. Frohman, braking to a stop, saw Allen land on the grass. But the unthinkable happened. Upside down but also flying through the air, the SUV struck the light pole and dropped straight down, landing squarely on Allen.

Frohman ran over to the SUV. Seeing both of Allen’s feet under the SUV, Frohman tried to rock it back and forth6 so that it would roll off Allen. Not succeeding, he dialed 911 on his cell phone. Police and paramedics arrived within a few minutes. Frohman was still trying to roll the SUV off the victim when they arrived. The police told him to move back. Four of them rolled the SUV off the dead body. The paramedics did not even check the airway7; they knew a dead person when they saw one.

One of the police officers congratulated Frohman on his attempt to save Allen.

“I wasn’t trying to save him,” said Frohman. “I was planning to knock his teeth out for damaging my car.”

1 buddy n.(美口)密友，伙伴

參考例句：

Calm down,buddy.What's the trouble?壓壓氣，老兄。有什么麻煩嗎?

Get out of my way,buddy!別擋道了，你這家伙!

2 apparently adv.顯然地;表面上，似乎

參考例句：

An apparently blind alley leads suddenly into an open space.山窮水盡，豁然開朗。

He was apparently much surprised at the news.他對(duì)那個(gè)消息顯然感到十分驚異。

3 strapped adj.用皮帶捆住的，用皮帶裝飾的;身無分文的;缺錢;手頭緊v.用皮帶捆扎(strap的過去式和過去分詞);用皮帶抽打;包扎;給…打繃帶

參考例句：

Make sure that the child is strapped tightly into the buggy. 一定要把孩子牢牢地拴在嬰兒車上。 來自《簡明英漢詞典》

The soldiers' great coats were strapped on their packs. 戰(zhàn)士們的厚大衣扎捆在背包上。 來自《簡明英漢詞典》

4 halfway adj.中途的，不徹底的，部分的;adv.半路地，在中途，在半途

參考例句：

We had got only halfway when it began to get dark.走到半路，天就黑了。

In study the worst danger is give up halfway.在學(xué)習(xí)上，最忌諱的是有始無終。