Woman Killed During Solar Eclipse in India
日全蝕在印度造成一位婦女死亡
Edward Wu
【新聞關鍵字】
1. devotee: n. 虔誠的宗教信徒
2. stampede: 踐踏
3. helter-skelter: 慌張
4. trample: 踐踏
5. suffocation: n. 窒息
Thousands of devotees gathered at the banks of river Ganga to watch the solar eclipse on Wednesday (July 22). The stampede of people killed a woman and injured four others.
7月22號星期三當天，成千上萬的宗教信徒聚集在恆河的兩岸觀看日全蝕，但是在多人互相混亂地推擠當中造成一位婦女死亡另外4人受傷。
[Jagdeesh, Local]: “The accident took place at 8:30 am when people started running helter-skelter. Eight to ten people got trampled, two died and four were injured."
一位叫雅各德斯的當地人說：這件不幸事件是在早上8:30分，很多人開始在混亂中奔跑時發生的，8到10個人被踐踏，其中2人死亡、4人受傷。
The police believed that the woman died from suffocation and not from being trampled on.
警方相信那位婦女應該是被悶死的，而不是如外傳被踐踏而死的。
[P.C. Meena, Deputy Inspector General, Varanasi]:
“Due to suffocation, one woman named Ganga Devi died. Four to five others are injured and there is nothing else."
一位副檢察總長說：一位叫德玉的婦女因為窒息而死，另外四到五位民眾受傷，然後就沒有其他的了。
The eclipse began at 5:28 a.m. local time in India and peaked for 6 minutes, 39 seconds.
日全蝕在印度時間早上5:38分開始，整個完整的日全蝕總共延續了6分39秒。
【新聞關鍵字】
6. sacred: adj. 神聖的
7. complicated pregnancies: n. 難產
8. miserable: adj. 悲慘的
9. roughly: adv. 大約
10. corridor: n. 走廊
A solar eclipse is spiritually sacred for many Indians. Devotees from across the country take baths in rivers, a holy act believed to bring good fortune and release from the cycle of life and death.
對許多信仰宗教的印度人來說日全蝕是非常神聖的。來自印度各個地方的虔誠人士們來到恆河沐浴，因為他們相信這樣做會給他們帶來好運，甚至於會因此而遠離生死輪迴。
But others believe that an eclipse brings bad luck and expectant mothers may have complicated pregnancies or have miserable children.
然而相反地，卻有人認為日蝕會帶來厄運，甚至於懷孕的婦女可能會導致難產或者是孩子的未來會很悽慘。
According to the U.S. space agency NASA, the longest total solar eclipse of the 21st century was visible in a roughly 250 km-wide (155 miles) corridor, as it traveled half the globe and passed through India and China.
根據美國太空總署的報告，能觀賞到本世紀最長的日全蝕的地區，橫跨了從印度到中國約半個地球的250公里的狹長地帶。
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