War zone at mile 26: ‘It’s all blood’
Wed, Apr 17, 2013NY Times News Service, BOSTON
About 30m from the end of the 42km Boston Marathon, explosions shook the street and sent runners frantically racing for cover. The marathon finish line, normally a festive zone of celebration and exhaustion, was suddenly like a war zone.
“These runners just finished and they don’t have legs now,” said Roupen Bastajian, 35, a Rhode Island state trooper and former US Marine. “So many of them. There are so many people without legs. It’s all blood. There’s blood everywhere. You got bones, fragments. It’s disgusting.”
The Boston Marathon, which takes place on Patriots’ Day, a state holiday, is usually an opportunity for the city to cheer with a collective roar.
However, the explosions turned an uplifting day into a nightmarish swirl of bloodied streets and torn-apart limbs as runners were toppled, children on the sidelines were maimed, and a panicked city watched its signature athletic spectacle destroyed.
This year, more than 23,000 people started the race in near-perfect conditions. Only about 17,580 finished.Three people were killed in the blast and more than 100 were injured.
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Keywords：
1. frantically：瘋狂的
2. festive：喜慶的
3. fragment：碎片
4. maimed：殘廢的
5. swirl：漩渦
6. near-perfect：近乎完美
7. collective：集體的
8. roar：咆哮
9. spectacle：眼鏡
10. topple：推翻
It is very cruel of those who did this explosion. Hope the wounded can be recovered to health as soon as possible.
回覆刪除I think it is very terrible in this explosion , and I feel very sad about the people in this event.
回覆刪除After reading this paragraph I feel deep grief .
回覆刪除I think how could anyone have the heart to kill so many innocent people.