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進入《中英對照讀新聞》Mother-in-law’s tombstone topples on Pennsylvania man, killing him 繼母墓碑壓死賓州男
◎周虹汶
A Pennsylvania man was helping decorate his mother-in-law’s tombstone ahead of the Easter holiday when it suddenly toppled over, pinning him underneath and killing him, a cemetery caretaker said.
一位墓地看守員說，一名賓州男子在復活節假期前正幫忙裝飾繼母的墓碑時，墓碑竟突然倒塌、把他壓在下面並殺了他。
The 400-pound stone fatally injured Stephen Woytack, 74, of Scranton, said Edward Kubilas, caretaker of St. Joseph’s Catholic Cemetery in the eastern Pennsylvania town of Throop, just outside of Scranton.
位於賓州東部城鎮索路普、就在斯克蘭頓市外圍之聖若塞天主教公墓的看守員愛德華．庫畢拉斯說，該400磅的墓碑致命地傷害了斯克蘭頓市74歲的史蒂芬．沃塔克。
Woytack was kneeling next to the grave marker while his wife tied on a cross on the other side, Kubilas said. The stone toppled without warning in the soft spring ground.
庫畢拉斯說，沃塔克正跪在墓碑旁，而他的太太當時在另一端綁一個十字架。該墓碑在春天柔軟地面倒下，毫無預警。
"His wife came running to get me," Kubilas told Reuters. "By the time I got there, he was not too good. I got half the stone off him. It must have been adrenaline."
庫畢拉斯告訴路透：「他的太太跑著來找我。」「在我到達那裡前，他的狀況已不是太好。我讓一半的墓碑離開他。那一定是腎上腺素。」
A police officer and ambulance arrived almost immediately and helped him wrestle the rest of the 4-foot by 4-foot stone off Woytack, Kubilas said, but it was too late to save him.
庫畢拉斯說，一名警官與救護車幾乎立即抵達，並幫忙他把4英尺見方墓碑的剩餘部分從沃塔克身上拖開，但為時已晚救不了他。
"It’s a tragic thing," Kubilas said. "There’s nothing you could do."
庫畢拉斯說：「這是一件悲慘的事。」「沒有你能做的事。」
Woytack and his wife visited the cemetery several times each year to decorate the family grave, Kubilas said.（Reuters）
庫畢拉斯說，沃塔克和他的太太每年拜訪這處公墓數次，以裝飾家族墓地。（路透）
新聞辭典
underneath：形容詞，指較低的、下面的；副詞，指在底下；介係詞，指在下頭、在領導或控制下；名詞，指下部、底部。例句：Underneath his anger is his fear.（隱藏在他憤怒底下的是他的恐懼。）
adrenaline：名詞，指腎上腺素、激勵因素、一陣興奮或激動。例句：The drop in the price of oil is a shot of adrenaline to the global economy.（油價下跌對全球經濟而言是注入強心針。）
wrestle：動詞，指搏鬥、設法解決；名詞，指摔角、鬥爭。例句：We’re wrestling with the problem.（我們正絞盡腦汁處理此問題。）
