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It was rush hour on the morning of June 1 in the West Texas city of San Angelo.
6月1日早上，德克萨斯州西部城市圣安杰洛正处于交通高峰期u;h3KNkqWbrcTm。
Heather Santellano, 36, was driving her white 2012 Mazda on Houston Harte Frontage Road with her nine-year-old daughter and ten-year-old son in the back.
36岁的希瑟·桑特拉诺开着她的白色2012年产马自达行驶在休斯顿哈特临街，她9岁的女儿和10岁的儿子坐在后面ux!PR.-d[0。
Suddenly, a red pickup truck cut them off. Santellano turned the wheel hard to the right,
突然，一辆红色的小货车拦住了他们IHEMT~zF7qm9XG~*@)。桑特拉诺把方向盘用力向右转，
sending the Mazda skidding off the road and down an embankment that ended in a drop-off after about 50 feet.
汽车在行驶50英尺后滑出公路，沿着一条堤岸滑下W!+ry1)Cy@。
If the car didn't stop, it would go airborne and plunge onto the road some 20 feet below.
如果这个汽车没有停的话，它会飞到空中，然后在20英尺以下的路面上坠落u1b|p~RDsY9v(。
Then a bit of luck: As the car raced toward the edge, its undercarriage got stuck on the cement lip of the embankment ledge, stopping it cold.
然后再来一点运气：当汽车冲向边缘时，它的底盘卡在了路堤边缘的水泥边缘上，车停了下来Net|%z7b]sUS-p。
The occupants, however, were far from safe. The car had come to rest on top of a retaining wall, literally teetering on the edge of disaster.
然而，里面的人却很不安全*D(xHR&eR_-fQMLH6。这辆车停在了一堵挡土墙上，几乎是在灾难的边缘摇摇欲坠edZ(!oLNi=qkZ。
One sudden move by anyone inside could send it over. Jacob Rodriguez watched the scene unfold from the truck-accessories company where he works.
里面任何人的突然举动都能把车弄翻]B7@1I4P*=-(()。雅各布·罗德里格斯在他工作的卡车配件公司目睹了这一幕@[=@PdvZvdR。
A veteran, he whispered a Navy mantra: "Ship, shipmates, self," then he and four other men ran to the car.
作为一名老兵，他低声念着海军的咒语：“船，船友，自己t)#]#wD-^TmyF9!R。”然后他和其他四个人跑向汽车UrhyZ_T|Z[ankr!.xAur。
They leaped onto the trunk to balance the weight as the terrified kids in the back seat watched.
他们跳上后备箱来平衡重量，而坐在后座上的孩子们则惊恐地看着他们*^QAuR=q=X17s。

Meanwhile, Julio Vasquez and his nephew, Marco Vasquez, were driving to their jobs at nearby Premier Auto-motive.
同时，胡里奥·瓦斯克和他的侄子马尔科·瓦斯克正开车前往附近的Premier Auto-motive上班DXq=d@]KmoBQRY0TU&v。
Julio jumped out of the car to help while Marco went to the shop, grabbed a heavy-duty strap, and returned to the dangling car.
胡里奥赶快下车去帮忙，马尔科则去商店买了一根结实的皮带，然后回到那辆摇摇晃晃的车那里a]utpJIbbQr0p3Z。
He tethered the Mazda to an F-350 truck that had been driven over by one of the other rescuers.
他把马自达绑在一辆F-350卡车上，这辆卡车是被其他救援人员开过来的4b,P]=tw=n。
With the car secured, the group carefully opened the back doors and helped the children out.
把车系好后，大家小心地打开车后门，把小孩们救了出来j*jzh|j(7p1drvP@@J。
But their departure shifted the car's weight, causing it to tilt forward.
但是他们的离开改变了车的重量，使这辆车向前倾斜q+bvW@=.+S。
The men, still on the trunk, implored Santellano to jump into the back seat to rebalance the weight.
他们几个人还在卡车上，他们让桑特拉诺跳到汽车后座上来平衡重量bpv7|)GNtAj[。
She did and then inched out the back door. Finally, the men carefully got off the trunk.
她照做了，然后从后门走了出去=0F,dR8qU*。最后，他们小心地下了车WYAJuIB!6^s_Pbym%Z。
Everyone was safe. "Another foot," Rodriguez told USA Today, "and this would be a different story."
每个人都安全了ojMX7k.z0H2。罗德里格斯告诉《今日美国》，“再差一英尺，这就会是一个不一样的故事f1U[7geiyAomf2d。”

重点讲解

1.cut off切断；中断
If we start from the south we can cut off their reinforcements.
如果我们从南边着手的话我们可以切断他们的援军2~B84hm@yU&W9。
2.far from远离；远非
But for some students, it proves to be far from true!
但是对于一些学生而言，事实却远非如此！
3.end in 以...告终
Often relationships begin with a flurry of romance and then end in great dissonance, argument or strife.
经常的，关系以浪漫激情开始，而以巨大的不和谐、争执或冲突而结束46e!lnfXo#-s&h2。

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