推荐一篇很好的英文文章

最近阅读量蛮大的，光读报可能差不多会花2小时左右时间。所以还蛮容易阅读疲劳的。这样状态下不喜欢的文字不见得是不好的，但这个状态下喜欢的文字，应该是真的很出彩。

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# 首先是文章选择的描述视角：

讲的是地震，所以比较容易陷入一些常见叙事方式。但是作者从声音的这个点切入：

现场救援当然会有各种声音：直升机的，发电机的，救护车的...

All week, the soundtrack of Antakya and other hard-hit cities has been the din of crisis.Helicopterscarrying aid have become so commonplace people hardly look up. In the absence of electricity, thrumminggeneratorspower floodlights for the search-and-rescue teams.Ambulancesirens scream on and on, raging against traffic so impenetrable it always takes a minute for drivers to let them through.

但也有的时候现场会一片安静：因为探测到了生命迹象，需要仔细的听。

Yet, every so often,silence falls across a street.The search-and-rescue teams call for everyone to hush, and cars turn their engines off while the searchers listen for voices under the rubble.

只是随着救援的持续，这样的突然安静越来越少。

The sirens are a reminder that there are still people with heartbeats under the concrete.Increasingly, however,there are no voices, and the searchers find only bodies.

# 然后好在文章的多处并列结构：

描述来自all walks of life 的义工

One medical studenthitchhiked 375 miles to the disaster zone as soon as he heard about the earthquake; Mr. Kilic flew in from Istanbul on a plane full of volunteer doctors and nurses.A veterinarian and her boyfrienddrove in from Ankara intending to help humans, only for her to end up treating pets.An Indian maxillofacial surgeon and the rest of his army medical teamset off for Turkey, one of multiple medical groups from around the world who would show up to help.

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Now, new waves of patients are creeping in:peoplefrom rural villages, stranded at the end of snowy or damaged roads, who could not reach help until now;peoplewho were too busy searching for buried relatives or finding shelter to seek treatment for their own minor wounds;peopleinjured while going back to unstable homes to retrieve belongings. ....

# 还好在一些表达:

奇迹很多，但还不够

For the doctors in the field hospital, hastily constructed in a parking lot,miracles had grown nearly routine, but there were never enough of them. As the days pass and more dead than living people are taken from the rubble, they grow rarer and rarer.

总之，一篇很好的文章，有兴趣的可以全篇精读下。