Six consecutive(连续的) days of spring rain had created a
raging(发怒) river running by Nancy Brown’s farm.
As she tried to herd her cows to higher ground,
she slipped and hit her head on a fallen tree trunk.
The fall knocked her out for a moment or two.
When she came to, Lizzie, one of her oldest and
favorite cows, was licking her face. The water was rising.
Nancy got up and began walking slowly with Lizzie.
The water was now waist high. Nancy’s pace(速度)
got slower and slower. Finally, all she could do
was to throw her arm around Lizzie’s neck and try to hang on.
About 20 minutes later, Lizzie managed(处理)
to successfully pull herself and Nancy out of the
raging water and onto a bit of high land, a small island
now in the middle of acres(英亩) of white water.
Even though it was about noon, the sky was so dark
and the rain and lightning so bad that it took
rescuers(救助者) another two hours to discover(发现)
Nancy. A helicopter lowered a paramedic(伞兵军医),
who attached(贴上) Nancy to a life-support(生活支持)
hoist(升起). They raised her into the helicopter
and took her to the school gym, where the Red
Cross had set up an emergency(紧急状态) shelter.
When the flood subsided(下沉) two days later,
Nancy immediately went back to the “island.”
Lizzie was gone. She was one of 19 cows that
Nancy lost. “I owe my life to her,” said Nancy sobbingly(湿透的).
感想:这个故事很感人。
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