关于暴风雪的英语短文阅读:Towns Hit by Snowstorms
编者按：暴风雪即雪暴，是大量的雪被强风卷着随风运行，并且不能判定当时是否有降雪，水平能见度小于1km的天气现象。以下是一篇关于暴风雪袭击小镇的英语短文，欢迎阅读!
奥斯威戈小镇迎来了一场暴雪，给小镇带来了不少变化，具体是什么呢?咱们一起来看看~
Towns Hit by Snowstorms
(暴风雪袭击小镇)
Redfield, New York, received twelve feet of snow last week.
上周，纽约的雷德菲尔德下了十二英尺厚的雪。
Its neighbors in Oswego are jealous because they got only ten feet of snow.
它奥斯威戈的邻居很嫉妒，因为他们只下了十英尺厚的雪。
An Oswego resident told a TV reporter that one more storm was coming in that would determine the winner.
一位奥斯威戈居民告诉一位电视台记者说，又一场风暴即将来临，这将决定获胜者。
"I hope we get five more feet," he said.
“我希望我们能再多下五英尺，”他说。
"That'll beat Redfield."
“那会打败雷德菲尔德的。”
This is the most snow the region has received in six years.
这是该地区6年来所收到的最大的降雪。
"The people who worry about global warming should come visit us.
“那些担心全球变暖的人应该来看看我们。
They'll worry less," said a Redfield resident.
他们就不会担心了，”一个雷德菲尔德的居民说。
He said any visitors would have to wait till some snow melted, because most local roads were closed.
他说，任何游客都必须要等到积雪融化，因为大部分当地道路都关闭了。
Even the snowplows were waiting until after the next storm before they began to clear all the roads.
甚至连扫雪机都要等到下一次暴风雪之后才能开始清扫所有的道路。
Schools were closed all week.
整整一个星期学校都停课了。
Most kids were happy about it.
大多数孩子们都对此很开心。
They couldn't go ice skating or skiing because the roads were closed.
由于道路封闭，他们不能去滑冰或滑雪。
But they did play in the snow, make snowmen, and have snowball fights.
但他们在雪地里玩，堆雪人，打雪仗。
"It wasn't a good week for me," complained one high school student.
“这对我来说不是好的一周，”一个高中生抱怨道。
"I had to help my dad shovel all the snow off the roof."
“我得帮我爸爸把屋顶上的雪铲掉。”
When he finished doing that, his dad asked him to shovel the snow off the driveway and the sidewalk.
当他做完这件事时，他爸爸要他铲掉车道和人行道上的积雪。
"I can't wait for school to reopen," he said.
“我等不及开学了，”他说。
相关句型辨识
Even the snowplows were waiting until after the next storm before they began to clear all the roads.
甚至连扫雪机都要等到下一次暴风雪之后才能开始清扫所有的道路。
这句话运用到了过去进行时的结构，即 “was/were+doing”, 表示过去在某一时间段或某一段时间内正在发生或进行的动作或状态。常与表示过去的时间状语连用，如:last night,last Saturday等; 或者与when,while,as引导的过去时间状语连用。
例如:
We were watching TV from seven to nine last night.
昨天晚上七点到九点的时候我们在看电视。
What was he researching all day last Sunday? 上周日他一整天都在研究什么?
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