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Indian groom skydives to wedding 印度新郎跳傘入禮堂

Indian air force official Shisir Mishra prepares to remove his parachute after skydiving to attend his wedding ceremony in Bhubaneswar, Orissa, India, on July 13, 2008. Mishra jumped from a helicopter from a height of about 2,100m and landed in a sports ground. 本月十三日在印度奧里沙邦的布巴紐瓦，印度空官席瑟．米希拉跳傘抵達婚禮現場後，準備卸下降落傘。他從一架飛在約兩千一百公尺高的直昇機跳下，降落在運動場上。 照片：法新社 PHOTO: AFP

It is supposed to be the happiest day of any woman’s life, but an Indian air force official decided he could upstage his future wife — by dropping in from 2,100m.

Shisir Mishra, an accomplished skydiver, jumped from a helicopter and landed in a sports ground close to the bride’s home in Bhubaneswar, the capital of Orissa state.

Mishra, along with three friends, jumped free fall before opening his parachute about 100m from the ground and landing to cheers from hundreds of well-wishers at the wedding ceremony.

“The idea of doing something on the occasion of my marriage struck me after I read about a couple in Maharashtra getting married in a hot air balloon recently,” said Mishra, whose bride gifted him a bouquet on arrival.

“Not for a moment was I scared. I was sure he would make it,” bride Sweta Prusty said.

The jump was meat and drink for Mishra who previously won a place in the Indian equivalent of the Guinness World Records for jumping free fall from 4,500m with the Indian national flag in hand.

(AFP)

這理當是女人一生中最快樂的一天，但一位印度空官決定搶走未來老婆大人的風采—從兩千一百公尺的高空跳下。

席瑟．米希拉是一位跳傘高手，他從直昇機上一躍而下，降落在奧里沙邦布巴紐瓦的新娘家附近的運動場上。

米希拉和三個朋友一起進行自由落體跳傘，在離地面約一百公尺時才拉開降落傘，並在上百位婚宴賓客的歡呼聲中降落。

米希拉說：「我最近讀到一篇報導說，在馬哈拉施特拉邦有一對夫婦乘坐熱氣球完婚，腦中便閃過我也可以在自己的婚禮上做點什麼的念頭。」降落時，他的新娘還向他獻花。

新娘絲薇塔．普魯斯提說：「我一點也不擔心害怕，我確信他辦得到。」

跳傘對米希拉來說輕而易舉，他先前才從四千五百公尺的高空、手拿著印度國旗進行自由落體跳傘，在印度一項相當於金氏世界紀錄的活動中創下紀錄。

（法新社／翻譯：袁星塵）

TODAY’S WORDS 今日單字 1. upstage v.t. 搶鋒頭 (qiang3 feng1 tou2) 例: Ray got 100 percent in the test and upstaged his brother. (雷伊考試滿分，搶走他哥哥的風采。)   2. accomplished adj. 熟練的 (shu2 lian4 de5) 例: Only accomplished cyclists should enter the race. (只有技術熟練的自行車手才能參加這場比賽。)   3. parachute n. 降落傘 (jiang4 luo4 san3) 例: Pull the emergency chord if the parachute doesn't open the first time. (如果降落傘沒在第一時間打開，就拉這個緊急翼弦。)   4. equivalent n. 相等物 (xiang1 deng3 wu4) 例: Last year's design was great, but this year's equivalent is even better. (去年的設計很棒，但今年的設計更讚。)

SAY WHAT? 說說看 meat and drink 輕而易舉之事 When something is meat and drink for people, it means that they can easily do something that other people find difficult. They may be naturally good at the task, or they may have had a lot of practice at it. For example: “We spent hours trying to figure out how to fix the computer, but it was meat and drink for Steve, who fixed it in under 10 minutes,” or “Harry aced his military service fitness test. Some of the candidates struggled on the 10km run, but it was meat and drink for Harry.” 如果某件事對某些人來說是「meat and drink」，表示他們可以輕鬆完成某件對別人來說很困難的事情，也�?悒芫N很會做這件事，又或者是經過後天不斷練習的結果。 例如：「我們花了好幾個小時想修好這台電腦，但史帝夫花不到十分鐘就修好了，這對他來說輕而易舉」或是「哈利高分通過了兵役的體能測驗，有些人在跑十公里時痛苦掙扎，但那對哈利來說不算什麼」。

OUT LOUD 對話練習 Carter: Have you seen the pictures from Trevor and Trisha’s wedding yet? Eric: Yeah. Trevor uploaded them to the Web, so I checked them out online. I think he looked great in that suit. Carter: That’s true. But what on earth was Trisha doing wearing a mini-skirt on her wedding day? She must be nearly 45 years old. Eric: You’re right. Talk about mutton dressed as lamb! If I were Trevor I’d be embarrassed getting married to a woman like that. 卡特：你看到崔佛和崔夏婚禮的照片了嗎？ 艾瑞克：有啊，崔佛有把照片放上網，我就在網上看了，我覺得他穿那套西裝很帥。 卡特：沒錯，但崔夏幹嘛在她的大喜之日穿迷你裙啊？她應該有四十五歲了吧。 艾瑞克：你說得對，她就是個想裝年輕的歐巴桑！如果我是崔佛，我會覺得跟這種女人結婚很難為情。 mutton dressed as lamb　裝年輕的老人 Mutton is the meat from older sheep, and lamb is the meat from younger sheep, so the expression mutton dressed as lamb means an older person who is trying to look younger. 「mutton」是老羊的肉，而「lamb」是羔羊的肉，所以「mutton dressed as lamb」這個片語意指想裝年輕的老人。

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