考研英語時文賞讀（98）：坐飛機睡過頭還會被鎖在飛機上？

　　Woman falls asleep on flight, wakes up ‘alone’ and ‘locked up’ in empty plane

　　一名女子坐飛機睡過頭，醒來時發(fā)現(xiàn)“獨自一人”被“鎖在”飛機上

　　Tiffani Adams was on her way home to Toronto after visiting a friend in Quebec when “one of the best weekends I’ve ever had” turned into a nightmare.

　　在拜訪了魁北克的一位朋友后，蒂芬尼·亞當(dāng)斯乘坐飛機返回她位于多倫多的家，“我度過的最美好的一個周末”就這樣變成了一場噩夢。

　　She woke up in a cold, dark Air Canada jet a few hours after it landed at Toronto International Airport to discover she was left sleeping on the plane.

　　在飛機降落至多倫多國際機場幾個小時后，她醒了過來，發(fā)現(xiàn)自己身處一架冰冷黑暗的飛機上。

　　Adams described the harrowing experience in which she was unable to recharge her phone while stuck inside the parked aircraft, which sent her into a panic attack.

　　亞當(dāng)斯描述了她的悲慘經(jīng)歷，當(dāng)時她被關(guān)在飛機里，沒法給手機充電，這讓她十分害怕。

　　Left to grope around the plane for some way to alert someone she was still on board, Adams eventually found a flashlight in the cockpit, and opened one of the plane’s doors. 亞當(dāng)斯在飛機上四處摸索，試圖讓人發(fā)現(xiàn)飛機上還有人，最后她終于在駕駛艙找到了一個手電筒，隨后她打開了飛機門。

　　Hanging 40 or 50 feet above the pavement, she flashed the light at distant ground crews until someone driving a luggage truck saw her and came to the rescue.

　　她站在距離地面四五十英尺高的飛機上，用手電筒向遠處的地勤人員示意，知道一位開行李車的工作人員看到了她，才趕來把她救了出來。

　　Air Canada officials gave her a ride home and have been in contact with her since, but Adams is still recovering from the ordeal.

　　加拿大航空公司的工作人員將她送回了家，并一直與她保持著聯(lián)系，但亞當(dāng)斯至今都沒能從這次事故中恢復(fù)過來。

　　“I haven’t got much sleep since the reoccurring night terrors and waking up anxious and afraid I’m alone locked up someplace dark,” she wrote in her post.

　　她在帖子中寫道：“從那以后我就沒睡好過，總是在夢到那晚的情景后驚醒，害怕自己又被孤零零地關(guān)在一個漆黑的地方。”

　　(全文共210個詞)

　　重難點詞匯：

　　harrowing  adj. 痛心的；悲慘的

　　cockpit  n. 駕駛員座艙；戰(zhàn)場

　　ordeal  n. 折磨；嚴酷的考驗；痛苦的經(jīng)驗

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