A Day to Remember 难忘的一天

We have all experienced days when everything goes wrong. A day may begin well enough, but suddenly everything seems to get out of control. What invariably happens is that a great number of things choose to go wrong at precisely the same moment. It is as if a single unimportant event set up a chain of reactions. Let us suppose that you are preparing a meal and keeping an eye on the baby at the same time. The telephone rings and this marks the prelude to an unforeseen series of catastrophes. While you are on the phone, the baby pulls the tablecloth off the table smashing half your best crockery and cutting himself in the process. You hang up hurriedly and attend to baby, crockery, etc. Meanwhile, the meal gets burnt. As if this were not enough to reduce you to tears, your husband arrives, unexpectedly bringing three guests to dinner.
Things can go wrong on a big scale as a number of people recently discovered in Parramatta, a suburb of Sydney. During the rush hour one evening two cars collided and both drivers began to argue. The woman immediately behind the two cars happened to be a learner. She suddenly got into a panic and stopped her car. This made the driver following her brake hard. His wife was sitting beside him holding a large cake. As she was thrown forward, the cake went right through the windscreen and landed on the road. Seeing a cake flying through the air, a lorry driver who was drawing up alongside the car, pulled up all of a sudden. The lorry was loaded with empty beer bottles and hundreds of them slid off the back of the vehicle and on to the road. This led to yet another angry argument. Meanwhile, the traffic piled up behind. It took the police nearly an hour to get the traffic on the move again. In the meantime, the lorry driver had to sweep up hundreds of broken bottles. Only two stray dogs benefited from all this confusion, for they greedily devoured what was left of the cake. It was just one of those days!

13.The woman immediately behind the two cars happened to be a learner.

紧跟其后的一辆车上的司机碰巧是个初学者。

语言点:句子结构分析: immediately behind the two cars作woman的后置定语，immediately修饰介词短语behind the two cars，意思是“紧跟在两辆车后面的”。

14.She suddenly got into a panic and stopped her car.

她一惊之下突然把车停了下来。

语言点1:and并列连接这个女人“惊慌失措”和“停车”这两个动作。

语言点2:get into a panic的意思是“变得惊慌失措”。

15.This made the driver following her brake hard.

她这一停使得跟在后头的司机也来个急刹车。

语言点1:句子结构分析:following car是现在分词短语，作后置定语，修饰driver。

语言点2:make sb.brake hard的意思是“使某人急刹车”。