《Four Long Minutes》漫长的四分钟

杜薇霞 海伦

Please read this story as an English listening practice.

First, Alan read the story 02:44 then he explained it in his own words 08:00. So please don't read the words while listening, otherwise it will affect your concentration.

有幸读到这个小故事的小朋友，请作为英文听力练习。首先 Alan用02:44读了这个故事，然后他用08:00自己的话来讲解这个故事，所以，在听的同时请不要看文字，否则会影响您的注意力。

《Four long minutes》here you are!

Alan takes a couple of minutes to explain few things in the story, it's called 《four long minutes》.

_Scrub diving. A person strap a tank of oxygen to his back which allows him to go under the water and stay there as long as the reminds oxygen in that tank.

_Bill loves to be in the deep water. He enjoyed the experience of looking at variety of plants, fish, and coral that on the bottom of ocean. He also loves the tranquility, peace and quiet and solitude.

_ Bill was down there by himself. And the whole world just same to be exit Bill and the fish and marvellous variety of plants.

_Marvelous.Concentrate.

_ On the particular Saturday afternoon that mentioned in the story.......near the Florida coast.

_He was concentrating.....

_Suddenly he felt downwards pressure.

_ Appeared the water pulling him down, he couldn't do anything about it.....

_Bill struggled and attempted to swim up..... to make him upwards progress.

_ to against the pull.....

_ as he was doing this he noticed...

_ diameter 直径

_ pull him towards

_appealed the water is too strong.

_Bill tried against the pull.

_16 feet across. The across is the diameter.

_Bill tried to swim upwards against the pull, the pulling of the water is too strong, he becomes a little bit of fearful and panic.

_Where could the pipe end up?

_Where was he going to end up? He asked himself.

_He couldn't see a thing.

_Nearby. It's on the ocean near the area.

_as turned out, it was blue sky.

_Luckily, in the ends only the pool of the water. It's not the pump.

_Bill found a little bit too scary, so he decided to go for something still quiet peaceful.

_ What is that? You may ask yourself. Student. Well. Boring is may sound after all excitement of Bill scuba diving. He has made decision from now on Collect stamps.

_From now on Bill started to collect the stamps Instead of scuba dive.🌝🌝🌞🌞🌞

原文 Original

Four Long Minutes

Bill Lamm loved to scuba dive. He loved to be in a deep water. He loved to look at a beautiful plants, coral and fish. He loved the peace at quiet.

One Saturday afternoon Bill was scuba diving near the florida coast. He was looking at some beautiful fish. Suddenly, He find himself be pulled down, Bill attempted to make some upwards progress. But the water seemed to pull him down again and again.

Bill looked down and saw a huge pipe; it was about 16 feet across. The pipe was on the ocean floor. The water was pulling Bill into the pipe! Again, Bill tried to swim up. Again, the water pulled him down.

A few seconds later, Bill was inside the pipe. The water was still pulling him down. Where was he ended up? What was at the end of the pipe?

Then Bill remembered: There was a nuclear power plant nearby. The pipe went to the nuclear power plant! And what was at the end of the pipe? Bill thought probably a pump.

For four long minutes, Bill was in the pipe. He could see nothing. Everything was black. Then Bill saw something Blue. What was it? What was at the end of the pipe? It was blue sky! Bill was out of the pipe! He was in a pool of water at the nuclear power plant. Luckily, There was no pump at the end of the pipe. There was only a pool of water.

A worker at the nuclear power plant pulled Bill out of the water. Bill had a few cuts on his legs and arms, but he was not really hurt.

Bill has a new hobby now. He doesn't scuba dive any more. he collects stamps.