【在生活中學習語言】《中英對照讀新聞》Drunken, drugged teens in wild orgy 酗酒嗑藥少
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A school was forced to help girls get emergency contraception after an end of term party descended into a chaotic orgy.
一所學校在一場期末派對淪為一場性愛雜交後,被迫協助女生採取緊急避孕措施。
The event is said to involve a number of under-age pupils who gathered for a party at a picturesque Lancashire village in the UK.
據稱這起事件有若干未成年學生涉入,他們齊聚在英國蘭開夏郡一座風光明媚的村莊參加派對。
Alison Hughes, the deputy head of the Queen Elizabeth School, was so concerned that she detailed the sexual activity, violent behaviour and alleged drug abuse that took place at the party in a two page letter to parents.
伊莉莎白女王中學副校長艾莉森.修斯極為憂心,以至於她在致家長的一封2頁信函中,詳述了發生在這場派對中的性愛活動、狂亂行徑以及據稱的嗑藥活動。
Mrs Hughes warned parents to assume the worse.
修斯女士提醒家長們要設想最糟糕的情況。
The end-of-term party at a hall in nearby Wray was supposed to have had supervision but the children forged signatures and no adults turned up to control 200 teenagers aged between 14 and 16.
這場於雷伊鎮附近一間會館舉辦的期末派對原應受到監督,但這些學童假造簽名,因此沒有大人在場管制200名年齡在14至16歲的青少年。
As teachers organised handouts of morning-after pills, chairman of the hall committee, Alan Day, said he could not believe what he was seeing in his usually quiet village.
當老師們安排事後避孕丸的發放工作時,該會館委員會主席艾倫.戴說,他不敢相信在這個向來寧靜的村莊中所見景象。
"All hell let loose at this event," he said.
「整起事件變得一團亂」,他說。
新聞辭典
descend into:片語,墮落、淪為。例句:She descended into stealing.(她墮落到偷竊。)
turn up:片語,出現。例句:He turned up an hour late.(他晚到了一小時。)
all hell let loose : 片語,一團糟。例句: It had been all hell let loose almost from the beginning.(事情幾乎從一開始就一團糟。)
來源:自由時報
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