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Read the passage and underline the words you don't know.
讀文章并在你不認識的單詞下面劃線。
Then look up the words in a dictionary and write down their meanings.
然后在字典中查生詞并寫下單詞的意思。
He Lost His Arm But Is Still Climbing
他失去了手臂但是依然堅持攀巖
Aron Ralston is an American man who is interested in mountain climbing.
阿倫·羅斯頓是一個對爬山感興趣的美國人。
As a mountain climber, Aron is used to taking risks.
作為一名登山者，阿倫習慣于冒險。
This is one of the exciting things about doing dangerous sports.
這是關于做危險運動的令人興奮的事情之一。
There were many times when Aron almost lost his life because of accidents.
有許多次，阿倫因為意外事故幾乎失去生命。
On April 26, 2003, he found himself in a very dangerous situation when climbing in Utah.
在2003年4月26日，在猶他州登山時他發現自己的處境非常危險。
On that day, Aron's arm was caught under a 360-kilo rock that fell on him when he was climbing by himself in the mountains.
在那天，當阿倫獨自登山時，他的手臂被落在他身上的一塊360千克的巖石壓住。
Because he could not free his arm, he stayed there for five days and hoped that someone would find him.
因為他的手臂不能自由活動，他在那兒待了五天，希望有人會發現他。
But when his water ran out, he knew that he would have to do something to save his own life.
但當他的水喝完了，他知道他將不得不采取措施來挽救自己的生命了。
He was not ready to die that day.
他不愿就在那天就死去。
So he used his knife to cut off half his right arm.
因此他用刀子切除了他的一半右臂。
Then, with his left arm, he bandaged himself so that he would not lose too much blood.
然后，他用左臂給自己打上繃帶來讓他不會失去太多的血。
After that, he climbed down the mountain to find help.
然后，他爬下山去尋求幫助。
After losing his arm, he wrote a book called Between a Rock and a Hard Place.
在他失去手臂之后，他寫了一本書叫《進退兩難》。
This means being in a difficult situation that you cannot seem to get out of.
它的意思是"處于一個你看起來無法擺脫的困境之中"。
In this book, Aron tells of the importance of making good decisions, and of being in control of one's life.
在這本書中，阿倫講述了關于做出明智抉擇和掌握自己生命的重要性。
His love for mountain climbing is so great that he kept on climbing mountains even after this experience.
他對登山非常酷愛以至于即使這次經歷之后他仍然繼續爬山。
Do we have the same spirit as Aron?
我們有阿倫這樣的勇氣嗎?
Let's think about it before we find ourselves "between a rock and a hard place",and before we have to make a decision that could mean life or death.
在我們發現自己處于進退兩難的處境之前以及在我們不得不做出生死抉擇之前,讓我們來想想這個問題。
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