2023年浙江省绍兴市中考 – 阅读理解B

One Sunday afternoon in May 2021, waiter Paul Blachut, 24, was busy at work at the FLOSSLANDE restaurant in scenic Augsburg, Germany. From behind the bar, Blachut had a good view of the Lech river below, in which many people were cooling their feet. The water is very cold at this time of year, and it runs quickly.
2021年5月的一个星期天下午，24岁的服务员保罗·布拉楚在德国奥格斯堡风景秀丽的FLOSSLANDE餐厅忙着工作。从酒吧后面，布拉楚可以很好地看到下面的Lech河，那里有很多人用冷水洗脚。每年的这个时候，水很冷，而且流速很快。

Among those enjoying the cooling water were a mother and her two teenage daughters. They were playing with an inflatable tube by the riverbank, when suddenly the girls lost their footing and fell into the river. It all happened so fast. The girls caught the tube, which their mother was sitting in, pulling her into the river, too. Now all three were being carried away, shouting, “Help! Help!”
在享受冷水的人中，有一位母亲和她的两个十几岁的女儿。他们正在河边玩充气轮胎，突然女孩们失足掉进了河里。这一切发生得太快了。女孩们抓住了妈妈坐的轮胎，也把她拉进了河里。现在，这三个人都被抬走了，大喊着：“救命！救命！”

Blachut looked up from his busy work when he heard the shouts. Then he found the three women not far away, flapping their arms, trying to catch anything. Without thinking, Blachut ran down to the river and jumped into the cold water. All he wanted to do was rescue them.
听到喊声，布拉楚从繁忙的工作中抬起头来。然后，他发现不远处有三个女人，她们挥舞着手臂，试图抓住任何东西。布拉楚不假思索地跑到河边，跳进了冰冷的水中。他只想救她们。

As Blachut got closer to them, he could tell that the mother seemed to be in the most trouble; her head was now out of sight. At once, Blachut went down under the mother, pushing her upward and towards the bank. Then an onlooker got close to grab the woman’s hand, pulling her to the land.
当布拉楚靠近她们时，他看出母亲似乎遇到了最大的麻烦；她的头现在看不见了。布拉楚立刻潜到母亲的下面，把她推到岸边。然后，一位旁观者靠近并抓住了这名母亲的手，把她拉到了岸上。

Blachut knew he needed to rescue the two daughters, who were now further down the river. He jumped into the water again and succeeded in getting one out in the same way he did her mother, while the other was saved by another onlooker.
布拉楚知道他需要营救两个女儿，她们现在在河的下游。他又跳进水里，像救她妈妈一样成功地救了一个，而另一个则被另一个旁观者救了出来。

Several onlookers expressed their admiration for Blachut following the accident. “The whole rescue only took two or three minutes,” he said, adding that it was not a big deal. Actually, it was a job very well done.
事故发生后，几名旁观者对布拉楚表示钦佩。“整个救援只花了两三分钟，”他说，并补充说这没什么大不了的。事实上，他完成得非常好。