美語情景對話 第172期:事故 The Accident

So, a funny story then, about my brother. First of all, he's my twin brother, so he's the same age as me, 26, and when we were, I think, 8 years old, it was during the summer. It was a very, very hot day, so all the windows in the house were open, and we decided to play hide and seek, so my brother, Daniel, he goes upstairs and he sits by the window, on the window ledge, and he's waiting for us to come and find him, so he leans back, but not realizing the window's open he falls out of the window, so he falls about 15 feet and he break both of his arms and all we hear is this screaming and we think, ah you know, he's just kidding around and then my mom goes out and sees that he's lying on the floor, one bone sticking out of one arm, the other one's all twisted, so we call the ambulance and everyone's crying. My mom is being sick with the shock, and he goes to hospital. We were really, really worried, you know, is he going to die, or whatever, and he was fine. He broke both his arms but he was in hospital for about two weeks I think. Yeah, it was really nasty. He's got a horrible scar now.

嗯，這是一個有趣的故事，是有關我哥哥的。首先，他是我的雙胞胎哥哥，所以他和我年齡一樣，今年26歲，我想想，那是我們8歲那年夏天發生的事。那天非常非常的熱，所以我們家把所有的窗戶都打開了，我們決定玩捉迷藏，所以我哥哥丹尼爾上了樓，他坐在窗戶旁邊，坐在了窗臺上，他等着我們來找他，所以他向後靠，但是他沒有意識到窗戶是開着的，所以他從窗戶掉了下去，他掉下去的高度大約有15英寸，所以他的兩隻胳膊都受了傷，我們聽見他的尖叫聲，你知道，當時我們以爲他只是在開玩笑，後來我媽媽出來，看到他躺在地板上，一隻胳膊有一根骨頭伸了出來，另一隻胳膊已經完全彎了，我們馬上叫了救護車，所有人都哭了。我媽媽因爲受到的驚嚇差點就病了，而我哥哥被送去醫院了。我們真的非常非常擔心，你知道，以爲他要死了，但是不管怎樣，他沒什麼事了。他的胳膊受了傷，我想他在醫院住了兩個星期。嗯，這真的是不愉快的經歷。他現在還有一個可怕的傷痕。

重點講解：
1. first of all
第一；首先；
eg. First of all, you should know what profession suits you.
首先，你該知道什麼職業適合你。
eg. First of all, let's set the scene.
首先讓我們來敘述一下背景。
2. decide to do sth.
決定，拿定主意（做）某事；
eg. He has decided that he doesn't want to embarrass the movement and will therefore step down.
他已拿定主意：他不想令運動陷入困窘的境地，因此決心辭職。
eg. The house needed totally rebuilding, so we decided against buying it.
這所房子需要徹底重建，因此我們決定不買了。