Next time that you think you’re having a bad day
The average cost of rehabilitate one seal after the Valdez oil spill in Alaska was $80,000. At a special ceremony, two of the most expensively-saved animals were released into the wild amid cheers and applause from onlookers. A minute later, a killer whale ate them both.
阿拉斯加瓦爾迪茲發(fā)生石油泄漏以后，救援每只海豹的平均費(fèi)用達(dá)到8萬(wàn)美元。在一個(gè)特別的儀式上面，有兩只花巨款拯救回來(lái)的海豹，在人們的歡呼和掌聲中被放回大自然。一分鐘后，它們雙雙被一頭殺人鯨吞入肚中。
In 1992, Frank Perkings in Los Angeles made an attempt on the world flagpole-sitting record. Suffering from the flu, he came 8 hours shorter than the 400-day record; his sponsor has gone bust, his girlfriend had left him and his phone and electricity had been cut off.
1992年，洛杉磯的弗蘭克·帕金斯決心打破坐旗桿的世界記錄。由于染上感冒，他在還差8小時(shí)破400天記錄的時(shí)候下來(lái)；隨后發(fā)現(xiàn)他的贊助人已經(jīng)破產(chǎn),女朋友早拂袖而去，而他的電話和電都被停了。
A woman came home to find her husband in the kitchen, shaking frantically with what looked like a wire running from his waist towards the electrical kettle. Intending to jolt him from the deadly current, she whacked him with a handy plank of wood by the back door, breaking his arm in two places. Until that moment, he had been happily listening to his walkman.
一名婦女回到家中，發(fā)現(xiàn)丈夫在廚房里瘋狂的扭動(dòng)身體，腰間似乎有根電線連到電暖壺。為了救他與危難之中，她就近從后門抄了一塊厚木版朝他劈去，把他的胳膊劈成兩段。其實(shí)此前他一直快樂(lè)的聽(tīng)著隨身聽(tīng)。
Two animal rights protesters were protesting the cruelty of sending pigs to a slaughter-house in Bonn. Suddenly the pigs, all two thousands of them, escaped through a broken fence and stampeded, trampling the two hapless protesters to death.
波恩的兩名動(dòng)物權(quán)利保護(hù)者正在抗議那種送豬到屠宰場(chǎng)的殘忍行徑的時(shí)候，兩千頭豬突然從破籬笆里面受驚跑出，踩死了這兩名倒霉的保護(hù)者。
A Iraqi terrorist, Khay Rahnajet, didn’t pay enough postage on a letter bomb. It came back with “return to sender” stamped on it. Forgetting it was a bomb, he opened it and was blown to bits.
一名名叫凱·拉納加的恐怖分子在郵寄郵件炸彈的時(shí)候沒(méi)有付夠郵資。郵件被蓋上退還郵寄人的印戳退回。而他忘記了那是炸彈，于是開(kāi)信，被炸成碎片。(實(shí)習(xí)編輯：夏根建)
