NBC晚间新闻 乘客袭击司机致车祸

A fatal argument caught on camera. The bus's black box video from last Sunday shows a woman attacking the driver after he missed her spot. She smacks¹ him with her cell phone, so he fights back, then loses control and veers² into the wrong lane. Terrified passengers screaming. The dashboard camera of a nearby vehicle shows the bus colliding with a car and crashing through a guardrail, plunging³ 164 feet into the Yangtze River.

15 people on board. And police say no survivors⁴. The wreckage⁵ was pulled from the river on Wednesday. But divers⁶ are working to find two victims still missing. The tragedy has stirred debate here, questioning how one moment of rage over one missed stop could shatter so many lives.

摄像机拍下了一场致命的争论。巴士黑匣子内上周日的视频显示，一名女子在司机开过她的下车站之后袭击了他。她用手机打了他一下，他反击了，然后失去了控制，转向了对向车道。乘客惊恐尖叫。附近一辆汽车的车载记录仪显示，这辆巴士与一辆汽车相撞，撞毁了护栏，掉进了164英尺下的长江。车上共有15人。警方说没有幸存者。残骸是周三从河里打捞上来的。但潜水员正在努力寻找两名失踪的受害者。这场悲剧在这里引发了一场辩论，质疑为何坐过一站的一时愤怒会摧毁这么多人的生命。

1 smacks   

掌掴（声）( smack的名词复数 )； 海洛因； （打的）一拳； 打巴掌

参考例句：

• His politeness smacks of condescension. 他的客气带有屈尊俯就的意味。
• It was a fishing town, and the sea was dotted with smacks. 这是个渔业城镇，海面上可看到渔帆点点。

2 veers   

v.（尤指交通工具）改变方向或路线( veer的第三人称单数 )；（指谈话内容、人的行为或观点）突然改变；（指风） （在北半球按顺时针方向、在南半球按逆时针方向）逐渐转向；风向顺时针转

参考例句：

• The car veers out of control. 这辆车失去了控制。 来自辞典例句
• His fondness for his characters sometimes veers towards the sentimental. 他对那位主人公的偏爱有时也稍显矫情。 来自互联网

3 plunging   

adj.跳进的，突进的v.颠簸( plunge的现在分词 )；暴跌；骤降；突降

参考例句：

• War broke out again, plunging the people into misery and suffering. 战祸复发，生灵涂炭。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
• He is plunging into an abyss of despair. 他陷入了绝望的深渊。 来自《简明英汉词典》

4 survivors   

幸存者，残存者，生还者( survivor的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The survivors were adrift in a lifeboat for six days. 幸存者在救生艇上漂流了六天。
• survivors clinging to a raft 紧紧抓住救生筏的幸存者

5 wreckage   

n.（失事飞机等的）残骸，破坏，毁坏

参考例句：

• They hauled him clear of the wreckage.他们把他从形骸中拖出来。
• New states were born out of the wreckage of old colonial empires.新生国家从老殖民帝国的废墟中诞生。

6 divers   

adj.不同的；种种的

参考例句：

• He chose divers of them,who were asked to accompany him.他选择他们当中的几个人，要他们和他作伴。
• Two divers work together while a standby diver remains on the surface.两名潜水员协同工作，同时有一名候补潜水员留在水面上。