たった今入った映像。多重衝突スリップ事故
つい昨日アメリカで放映された映像です。
異常気象が続く昨今、これはアメリカだけの問題ではなく、日本でも起こりえます。
北海道以外のみなさん、特に坂道の多い地域のみなさん。気を付けてくださいね。
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRkZSP_jq5M
The more freezing rain is falling right now that’s on top of the half inch of ice that pretty much coats everything around
And across this part of the country, it is proving to be a big danger for drivers.
This SUV is spinning in circles. Barreling out of control, downhill, with just one way to stop. Seconds later, it started all over again.Parked cars were like pinball bumpers to this driver. The brakes, no use. The wild rides continued.
A convoy of collisions on this Pittsburgh street, even as crash victims like these children, were escaping the mounting wreckage. In Pittsburgh alone, forty-five crashes choked up to ice. At least seventy people treated in the E.R.(emergency room) for slips and falls.
The storm packed with sleet and freezing rain moved further, northeast to near Boston, where instead of driving, cars were skating.
The hills. It’s tough on the hills. In New Haven Conneticut, a backwards approach to drive home.
Parking lots and streets looked like ice links.
We just started sliding and stopped, because I didn’t want to hit the car over here. Dropping rain and dropping temperature is not the only problem for this storm. Another ten ionches of snow could fall in parts of northern new England. And other places are suffering too. In Genessee county, Michigan, a dramatic rescue.
Look closely under this semi… There is a car down there. A driver was pinned inside. He had spun out.
The truck driver tried to avoid him, but instead they both wound up in the ditch. Hard to believe judging from this damage, but somehow the driver escaped unhurt.
Back here in Conneticut, some seven hundred emergency calls came pouring in to state police yesterday during the morning rush.
Robin ther are hoping for a quieter one today.
Look at the background. All the snow still on the streets and piled up high there in Cheshire.
AP 通信が発信した佑ちゃんフィーバー
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地元鎌ヶ谷市での熱狂ぶりを”rock star welcome” (ロックスターの様な歓迎ぶり)と表現したAP.
記録を出してナンボの世界で、ルーキーがこれほどもてはやされるのが不思議でしょうが無かったのですねきっと.
Rookie Saito creating fan, media frenzy
Nippon Ham Fighters rookie pitcher Yuki Saito has received “a rock star welcome” from fans at the team’s training facilities in Chiba Prefecture.
About 2,500 fans were out to see his first training with fellow rookies on Wednesday, after the 22-year-old former Waseda University standout’s move into the team’s dormitory made the front page of almost all sports newspapers in Japan.
Saito began with a light workout, only running, playing catch and doing some fielding practice, and the fans kept watching his every move on a chilly day.
“It feels good to go out there and work out,” Saito said. “The first day of training has motivated me even more to jump-start my pro career. I want all these people to see me pitch on the top team mound as early as possible.”
Saito became a national hero when he led Waseda Jitsugyo to the national high school championship title in August 2006.
He opted to play college baseball rather than turn pro.
His rival Masahiro Tanaka, who lost to Saito in the high school championship final, joined the Rakuten Eagles as their top 2006 draft pick and won the Rookie of the Year award in 2007 on his way to becoming an established star pitcher in Japan.
In college, Saito became the only sixth pitcher to reach 30 wins and 300 strikeouts in the Tokyo Big Six League.
“Just seeing him run, I can tell he has strong athletic ability,” said Nippon Ham manager Masataka Nashida, who came to the training.
“Now is only the preparatory stage. I don’t want him to rush anything. I just expect him to take time to build physical strength.”
英作文チャレンジコーナー(はいはい道新) Hokkaido Newspaper “Readers’ voice column”
テレビ見たぞ、彩芽くん I’ve seen you on the TV, AYAME.
When the drip needle was about to be inserted, you showed no sign of being scared.
運動会の徒競走、懸命に走っていたね。
In the elementary school foot race, you were running as hard as you could.
札幌までのひとり旅、いい経験をしたね。
Traveling to as far as Sapporo, you’ve earned a lifetime experience.
筋肉がすこし出来てきた、と先生にほめられてうれしそうな顔したね。
When your doctor told you that your arm muscles had increased a bit, you looked happy.
君のその頑張りで、多くの人が感動し、勇気づけられた。 おじさんもそのひとりだ。
Your fight against your disease inspired many people including me.
ありがとう。
Thank you.
海外でも報道、タイガーマスクのイイ話。Tiger Mask repaying welfare facilities, spurs outburst of charity
虎だッ、虎だっ、お前は虎になるのだ。 タアーッツ! 我が世代のヒーロー、タイガーマスク(伊達直人)の名を借りて善行をおこなう男の姿が海外でも報じられています。
暗い世相が渦巻く中、心が温まりますよね。
ディクテーションのやりがいがありました。 この運動が世界中に広がることを願いたいです。
動画は下をクリックしてください。
The gifts have been delivered to more than ninety locations across Japan, boxes filled with backpacks, envelopes of cash. This one came with green onions and five bags of rice. Each are from an anonymous donar who goes by Naoto Date, the name of a super hero in the popular Japanese comic, Tiger Mask.
Kikuchi Masatoshi got a box filled with pencils and pencil sharpeners at his orphanage in Yokohama. He says “I knew this man had a big heart.”
Tiger mask became popular in the 1960s, the stories about Naoto Date who becomes a professional wrestler and donates his money to the orphanage.
Now news of a real life hero helping children has sparked a national gift giving movement. The first gift came Christmas day and an employee at a welfare center outside Tokyo found ten boxes of backpacks. This man found twelve hundred dollars in an envelope at a grocery store. It came with a letter that read “There are tiger masks across Japan. Please use this for promising children.” The super hero has even gone to the police himself and asked them to deliver supplies to orphanages. Nearly two dozen new locations have reported gifts Tuesday alone. All the attention hasn’t convinced the man behind the mask to come forward yet, but there have been sightings. This store owner says an older man came in and bought half a dozen backpacks for an orphanage.
He covered his face with a scarf so I didn’t ask who he was. But I’m pretty sure he was Tiger Mask. Akiko Fujita, ABC news Tokyo.
これって新聞記事の価値あるかなあ?
宿題出しますよーー。
前回はあまりにも複雑すぎたので、もっと簡易なものにします。
「僕はよく地下鉄を利用する。最近気がついたが5,6年前に比べて車内が静かになった気がする。よく観察してみると、原因は携帯電話にあるようだ。」
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