英伦广角 2011-04-12 如此“蜜月”

It should have been a holiday of a lifetime when this Swedish couple and their baby left home for a four-month long honeymoon¹ trip. They couldn’t have imagined the troubles ahead. During their round-the-world journey, Erika and Stefan Svanstrom make experience of the blizzard², the cyclone³, flooding, a bushfire, an earthquake and a nuclear disaster.

 

“We started with a snowstorm in Germany, so that slowed us down for a night. So we had to spend the night there. Then it was the bushfire in Perth, and also we had the monsoon⁴ and a storm in the Bali.”

They were diving in Queensland in Australia when the biggest cyclone in years hit the area.

“And we ended up in Cairns, in Queensland in Australia and experienced the cyclone Yasi, which of course was the biggest cyclone they had in ages and we were evacuated⁵ for 24 hours in a shopping mall, together with 2,500 sleeping on the concrete floor, and the power went out in the middle of night. So, yeah. That was a different experience on a honeymoon, definitely.”

Then it was off to New Zealand, but a magnitude 6.3 earthquake killed over 200 people. Next the itinerary⁶ was Tokyo in Japan. They enjoyed two days of sightseeing before one of the worst earthquakes ever struck the country, followed by a tsunami⁷.

“That’s when we really experienced the forces of nature, close at hand. We were sitting in a restaurant and all of a sudden, two ladies are starting to talk to us in Japanese, and say, ‘oh, shake, shake ’. So we had to get out of the restaurant and everything was shaking we saw light posts just wobbling in the open air.”

The family escaped unharmed, but then faced the threat of nuclear fallouts. The couple and baby Elinor are now safely back home, recovering from their eventful honeymoon.

1 honeymoon   

n.蜜月（假期）；vi.度蜜月

参考例句：

• While on honeymoon in Bali,she learned to scuba dive.她在巴厘岛度蜜月时学会了带水肺潜水。
• The happy pair are leaving for their honeymoon.这幸福的一对就要去度蜜月了。

2 blizzard   

n.暴风雪

参考例句：

• The blizzard struck while we were still on the mountain.我们还在山上的时候暴风雪就袭来了。
• You'll have to stay here until the blizzard blows itself off.你得等暴风雪停了再走。

3 cyclone   

n.旋风，龙卷风

参考例句：

• An exceptionally violent cyclone hit the town last night.昨晚异常猛烈的旋风吹袭了那个小镇。
• The cyclone brought misery to thousands of people.旋风给成千上万的人带来苦难。

4 monsoon   

n.季雨，季风，大雨

参考例句：

• The monsoon rains started early this year.今年季雨降雨开始得早。
• The main climate type in that region is monsoon.那个地区主要以季风气候为主要气候类型。

5 evacuated   

撤退者的

参考例句：

• Police evacuated nearby buildings. 警方已将附近大楼的居民疏散。
• The fireman evacuated the guests from the burning hotel. 消防队员把客人们从燃烧着的旅馆中撤出来。

6 itinerary   

n.行程表，旅行路线；旅行计划

参考例句：

• The two sides have agreed on the itinerary of the visit.双方商定了访问日程。
• The next place on our itinerary was Silistra.我们行程的下一站是锡利斯特拉。

7 tsunami   

n.海啸

参考例句：

• Powerful quake sparks tsunami warning in Japan.大地震触发了日本的海啸预警。
• Coastlines all around the Indian Ocean inundated by a huge tsunami.大海啸把印度洋沿岸地区都淹没了。