NBC晚间新闻 夏威夷徒步者被困17天后获救

After searching for 17 days rescuers found Amanda Eller. She was badly injured with a fractured¹ leg, burns and a skin infection. The last 17 days of my life have been the toughest days of my life. Police stop their official search for Eller after just three days. So her family along with a private rescue team began their own search. We never gave up and we you know you can't give up. On Friday rescuers run their last ten minutes of fuel when they spotted² her. Troy Hummer was part of that team. Everybody was making noise and everybody was saying she is there! Amanda!

We were all getting excited and the helicopter pilot was told us to calm down, calm down. The 35 year old had hiked this three-mile trail before. But this time left her cell phone in the car. Once she got into the vegetation³, if I put you down there and you get disoriented you don't know where you're going at all. It's the same. Everything looks the same. She's survived by eating berries⁴, drinking river water, even sleeping in a wild boar den⁵. She covered herself with ferns to stay warm. There were times of total fear and loss and wanting to give up and it did come down to life and death and I had to choose. And I chose life. Today her family and friends are celebrating just that.

救援者在经过17天的搜救后找到了阿曼达·埃勒。她出现了腿部骨折，烧伤，皮肤感染，伤势严重。过去的17天是我一生中最艰难的日子。警方在仅仅三天之后就停止了对埃勒的官方搜救。所以她的家人和一个私人救援队开始了他们自己的搜救。我们从不放弃，我们不能放弃。周五，救援者在找到埃勒的时候，用完了他们最后十分钟的燃料。特洛伊·胡默是那个救援队的一员。找到埃勒后，每个人都喧闹起来，大家都在说，阿曼达在那里！我们都非常兴奋，直升机飞行员告诉我们要冷静冷静。35岁的阿曼达曾经徒步走过这条三英里长的小路。但是这次她把手机落在车里了。一旦她进入植被区域，如果我把你放在那里，你就会迷失方向，你根本不知道你要去哪里。看起来都一样。一切看起来都一样。她通过吃浆果，喝河水，甚至睡在野猪洞穴里存活了下来。她用蕨类植物盖住身体取暖。有段时间我感觉到完全的恐惧和迷失，想要放弃。那确实是生死攸关的问题，我必须做选择。我选择了生。今天她的家人和朋友正为此而庆祝。

1 fractured   

adj. 断裂的 动词fracture的过去式和过去分词

参考例句：

• He died in the car collision with his skull fractured. 他在那次撞车事件中因头骨碎裂而死去。
• He fell from a tree and his leg fractured in three places. 他从树上掉下来，腿三处骨折。

2 spotted   

adj.有斑点的，斑纹的，弄污了的

参考例句：

• The milkman selected the spotted cows,from among a herd of two hundred.牛奶商从一群200头牛中选出有斑点的牛。
• Sam's shop stocks short spotted socks.山姆的商店屯积了有斑点的短袜。

3 vegetation   

n.植物，草木，（植物）生长

参考例句：

• As we drove towards the desert,the vegetation became sparse.我们驱车前往沙漠，沿途的草木渐渐变得稀疏。
• The earth bore a thick green mantle of vegetation.大地覆盖着一层厚厚的绿色植物。

4 berries   

n.浆果( berry的名词复数 )；（葡萄，番茄等）浆果；干果仁；干种子

参考例句：

• Birds feed on nuts and berries in the winter. 鸟类靠坚果和浆果过冬。
• We went here and there looking for berries. 我们四处寻找浆果。 来自《简明英汉词典》

5 den   

n.兽穴；秘密地方；安静的小房间，私室

参考例句：

• There is a big fox den on the back hill.后山有一个很大的狐狸窝。
• The only way to catch tiger cubs is to go into tiger's den.不入虎穴焉得虎子。