CNN 2010-01-13

SAVIDGE (voice-over): Darkness falls in St. Louis and with it, the temperature.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Blowing snow as well, the wind chill index five below downtown at the arch.

SAVIDGE: And at the New Life Evangelistic Shelter the homeless have begun showing up for the night. But despite the bitter cold, there are some who refuse to come in. They're the ones that the Reverend Larry Rice wants to find.

(on camera): Do you try to bring them in or do you just try to look after them in place where they are?

REV¹. LARRY RICE, NEW LIFE EVANGELISTIC CENTER: We often look after them in place letting them know that we have a place available that they can come. But as meager² their belongings³ may be and as primitive⁴ as their place may be, that's still home.

SAVIDGE (voice-over): Our first stop is an abandoned home.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: We have to check on these people regularly. OK? SAVIDGE: That's not abandoned at all.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Hey, how are you doing there?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: All right. How are you all doing? Staying warm, are you?

SAVIDGE: Inside we find a community of young people in their teens and 20s.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: How are you all doing? I've got a new coat here for you. Can you all use a sleeping bag?

SAVIDGE: Thanks to roaring fires and gas heaters it's warm. For Susan Fanter, it's heaven compared to the street.

(on camera): How many people are in the house here?

SUSAN FANTER, HOMELESS WOMAN: Fifteen, 20. I don't know. I haven't really -- I never count.

SAVIDGE (voice-over): At the next stop, we realize Susan was right about the heaven part. This is where she was living, in a tent, in a tunnel.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Oh, Larry?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Larry Rice.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Oh, yes.

SAVIDGE: And as the temperature heads toward zero, we find others still here.

(on camera): What do you do to stay warm?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: My lantern.

SAVIDGE: That lantern is your source of heat?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes. When I have fuel for it.

SAVIDGE (voice-over): Next door, the tent has no ceiling.

(on camera): And why don't you go to a shelter?

DAVID HUCKSTEP, HOMELESS MAN: We prefer to stay out here. We don't like to be around a whole bunch of different people that we don't know. We're kind of like a small group of people that get along good.

SAVIDGE (voice-over): A small group of people living in the Stone Age just beneath the modern American city. Surviving a night so cold it could kill.

 

1 rev   

v.发动机旋转，加快速度

参考例句：

• It's his job to rev up the audience before the show starts.他要负责在表演开始前鼓动观众的热情。
• Don't rev the engine so hard.别让发动机转得太快。

2 meager   

adj.缺乏的，不足的，瘦的

参考例句：

• He could not support his family on his meager salary.他靠微薄的工资无法养家。
• The two men and the woman grouped about the fire and began their meager meal.两个男人同一个女人围着火，开始吃起少得可怜的午饭。

3 belongings   

n.私人物品，私人财物

参考例句：

• I put a few personal belongings in a bag.我把几件私人物品装进包中。
• Your personal belongings are not dutiable.个人物品不用纳税。

4 primitive   

adj.原始的；简单的；n.原(始)人，原始事物

参考例句：

• It is a primitive instinct to flee a place of danger.逃离危险的地方是一种原始本能。
• His book describes the march of the civilization of a primitive society.他的著作描述了一个原始社会的开化过程。