(I went out to DC with my sister this weekend. It was a good trip, but in some ways a very different one from what we planned.)
这个周末我跟我姐姐去 DC (华盛顿首府)。整个旅行还不错,可还是有意想不到的特别事情发生了。
(About six hours out, in rural Maryland, we hit a deer in the middle of the road. It was pretty violent, with the car swerving back and forth, then the deer colliding with the passenger side headlight and tumbling alongside the car, ending up right outside my door as we stopped at the side of the road. The radiator was crushed into the fan and the engine, so we couldn't drive the car any more. Nobody was stopping in the middle of the night, so we hiked about a quarter mile to a rest area. After a few hours, we had a tow truck and a cop.)
(Right after the accident, the deer was breathing heavily and kicking occasionally. When we started off to the rest area, it had pulled its head up and was looking at us. When the cop met us at the rest area, he mentioned that he had put the animal down.)