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Unit 19 Hand Gliding
第19單元 駕駛滑翔翼
Peter is a hand gliding instructor in California. People come from all over the world to learn how to hand-glide. He also teaches movie stars that need to know how to hand glide for movies.
彼得是加州一名滑翔翼教練，世界各地的人都來向他學習如何駕駛滑翔翼。他也教那些需要知道如何在電影里駕駛滑翔翼的電影明星。
Today, Peter was teaching a very famous person who was making an action movie.
今天，彼得正在教一個很有名氣的人，他正準備拍一部動作片。
Peter strapped the movie star into the glider. They had spent all afternoon practicing and now the movie star was going up all by himself.
彼得把這個電影明星綁在滑翔翼上。他們整個下午都在練習，現在這個電影明星要一個人試試看。
The movie star was doing exactly what he has learned that day when something went wrong. The glider began slowly to fall. Peter had to save him.
雖然他完全按照他那天學到的方法去做，結果還是出了事；他的滑翔翼開始慢慢往下掉。彼得必須去救他才行。
He jumped onto his own glider and few over to where the man was. The movie star was panicking. Peter unstrapped the man and told him to hang on to him.
他跳上自己的滑翔翼往電影明星那邊飛過去，那個人一陣驚慌失措，彼得則幫他解開繩子，叫他抓住他。
The man did what he was told just in time to watch his glider fall into the valley below.
那個人按照彼得的話去做，及時抓住彼得，然后看著自己的滑翔翼掉進下面的山谷。
To thank him for saving his life, the movie star cast him a part in his movie.
為了感謝彼得的救命之恩，這個電影明星便替他在自己的電影里安排了一個角色。
【美】 Tara McAteer 著 黃惟郁 譯上海交通大學出版社出版
