220萬公升的紅流
Arnold and Carrie are a couple. They are talking about a strange news story.
阿諾和凱莉是一對情侶。他們正在談論一則奇怪的新聞。
Arnold: I know you hate that it’s been raining so much every day, but what if it was red wine flooding the streets instead of water?
阿諾：我知道你討厭每天都下這麼多雨，但如果街上淹滿了紅酒而不是水，你會怎麼想？
what if 如果、要是(尤指糟糕的情況)instead of 與其、取而代之
Carrie: What are you talking about, Arnold? That doesn’t make sense.
凱莉：你在說什麼，阿諾？那聽起來不合理。
make sense 合理化unreasonable(adj.)不合理的
Arnold: Well, something like that actually happened! I read about it yesterday: A small town in Portugal had its streets flooded with red wine after an accident at a local winery.
阿諾：嗯，其實類似的事情真的發生過！我昨天讀到了這樣的新聞：葡萄牙的一個小鎮在當地一家酒莊發生意外後，街道被紅酒淹沒了。
accident(n.)意外winery(n.)酒莊
Carrie: That’s crazy! How much wine was it?
凱莉：太瘋狂了！那是多少紅酒？
Arnold: 2.2 million liters! Luckily, firefighters were able to stop it from getting into a nearby river, or it would have been really bad for the environment.
阿諾：220萬公升！幸運的是，消防隊成功阻止了它流入附近的河川，否則對環境會造成嚴重影響。
liter(n.)公升luckily(adv.)幸運地=fortunatelystop sth from sth 使～免於～nearby(adj.)(adv.)附近的environment(n.)環境
Carrie: And the people and animals too! I’m glad they were able to do that.
凱莉：還有人和動物！我很高興他們能夠解決了這件事。
Arnold: Me too. The winery already apologized for the accident and has been paying for the cleanup.
阿諾：我也是。這家酒莊已經為這次事故道歉，並支付了清理費用。
apologize for sth.為某事情道歉cleanup(n.)清理
Carrie: Even better! This story is so strange, but at least it has a happy ending.
凱莉：那更棒了！這個故事真是奇怪，但至少有個圓滿的結局。
even(adv.)甚至at least至少