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AS IT IS 2016-05-19 Video Shows Man Lifted Up By Strong Winds 美国男子强风中行走被吹走

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The United States is already almost two months into spring, but a recent video makes it look like at least one area is still the middle of winter.

The Mount¹ Washington Observatory² in New Hampshire posted the windy, wintry video on its Facebook page on Monday.

The video shows a worker being blown around by winds on the mountain’s snowy summit³. The winds were measured at speeds of up to 175 kilometers an hour.

The wind picks up the worker off the ground and throws him back down. Then, he falls and rolls around on the ground.

More than 1.2 million people have watched the original video on Facebook. It has been shared almost 10,000 times.

The worker in the video is a weather observer⁴. Weather observers⁵ sometimes work in extreme conditions on Mount Washington’s 1,916-meter summit. Mount Washington is the highest mountain in northeastern North America. It is known for having some of the world’s worst weather.

The 175-kilometer-an-hour wind speed is not even close to record-breaking winds on Mount Washington. The Associated Press noted⁶ that in 1934, 271-kilometer-an-hour wind speeds were recorded atop Mount Washington. That is a U.S. record.

Mount Washington is part of New Hampshire’s White Mountains. The area is a popular place to visit in the summer.

In its Facebook post, the Mount Washington Observatory tells people that, “although it looks like winter here, summer is just around the corner.”

That might be hard for some people in the northeastern U.S. to believe. Earlier this week, record amounts of snow fell in several places there. Some areas received more than 19 centimeters of snow.

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summit - n. the highest point of a mountain

just around the corner - idiom. soon; very near

1 mount   

n.山峰，乘用马，框，衬纸；vi.增长，骑上（马）；vt.提升，爬上，装备

参考例句：

• Their debts continued to mount up.他们的债务不断增加。
• She is the first woman who steps on the top of Mount Jolmo Lungma.她是第一个登上珠穆朗玛峰的女人。

2 observatory   

n.天文台，气象台，瞭望台，观测台

参考例句：

• Guy's house was close to the observatory.盖伊的房子离天文台很近。
• Officials from Greenwich Observatory have the clock checked twice a day.格林威治天文台的职员们每天对大钟检查两次。

3 summit   

n.最高点，峰顶；最高级会议；极点

参考例句：

• They climbed up the mountain and reached the summit.他们爬山，最终达到了山顶。
• The summit of the mountain is lost in the cloud and mist.山顶隐没在云雾之中。

4 observer   

n.观察家，观察的人，观察员

参考例句：

• I can see you're a careful reader as well as a careful observer.我能看出你既是一位细心的读者，又是一位观察者。
• I want to attend the conference only as an observer.本人只作为观察员身份参加会议。

5 observers   

n.观察者( observer的名词复数 )；遵守者；观测者；目击者

参考例句：

• According to observers, the plane exploded shortly after take-off. 据目击者说，飞机起飞后不久就爆炸了。
• Some military observers fear the US could get entangled in another war. 一些军事观察家担心美国会卷入另一场战争。 来自《简明英汉词典》

6 noted   

adj.著名的，知名的

参考例句：

• The local hotel is noted for its good table.当地的那家酒店以餐食精美而著称。
• Jim is noted for arriving late for work.吉姆上班迟到出了名。