【猫闻天下】昆明绑架案：普通人的英雄时刻

Kidnapping usually causes horror and panic. But a hostage/'hɒstɪdʒ/rescue on Friday in Southwest China's Yunnan province caught online attention. Heartwarming/'hɑːt,wɔːmɪŋ/ details of how police officials, teachers and many others who joined the rescue mission to save students from the horror also attracted hot discussion.

绑架往往带来恐慌，但是，在上上周五，在中国云南省发生的一场营救人质事件吸引了网民的注意力。警察、老师和许多参与救援的人引发了公众热议。

1. Kidnap v./'kɪdnæp/

绑架

2. Horror n. /'hɒrə/

恐怖，恐惧

I was seized by a nameless horror.

我为不可名状的恐慌所控制。

3. Panic n./ˈpænik/

慌乱

Panic attack 

惊恐发作

financial panic 

金融恐慌；经济恐慌

panic buying 

抢购，恐慌性抢购

4. Hostage n./‘hɒstɪdʒ/

人质

Footage widely circulated /'sɜːkjʊleɪt/on Chinese social media shows a female in a blue jacket approaching the hostage-taker and apparently talking to him before he's shot dead. The woman was not a hostage negotiator as many assumed, but a reporter with Yunnan Media Group.

在中国社交媒体上广泛传播的影片里，一位穿着蓝色夹克衫的女性靠近绑匪，在他被击毙之前显然在同他对话。这个女性并非是许多人以为的谈判专员，而是一名云南媒体集团的记者。

5. Circulate v. /'sɜːkjʊleɪt/

使流通

Hot water circulates through the heating system.

热水在供暖系统中循环。

During the standoff, a police once kneeled down and tried to persuade the man to take him as hostage in exchange of the school boy. 

在僵持阶段，一名警察甚至单膝跪地，请求绑匪，让自己换下小孩做人质。

6. Standoff n.  /ˈstænd.ɒf/

僵局

Seems we have reached a standoff.

我们似乎到达了一个僵局。