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แบบฝึกหัดที่ 2

จงแปลข่าวต่อไปนี้เป็นภาษาอังกฤษ

รถบัสคว่ำ นักท่องเที่ยวเสียชีวิต 2

เชียงใหม่ – ตำรวจรายงานว่า เมื่อวานนี้มีนักท่องเที่ยวสูงอายุชาวอังกฤษอย่างน้อย 2 คนเสียชีวิต และอีก 5 คนบาดเจ็บสาหัส เมื่อรถบัสที่แล่นมาด้วยความเร็วสูงพลิกคว่ำ บนถนนที่ลงมาจากดอยอินทนนท์ ซึ่งเป็นภูเขาที่สูงที่สุดในประเทศไทย

รายนามของผู้ที่เสียชีวิตและบาดเจ็บซึ่งส่วนมากเป็นชาวอังกฤษยังไม่ได้รับการเปิดเผย ผู้โดยสารในรถทัศนาจรคันนี้เป็น นักท่องเที่ยวชาวต่างชาติที่ปลดเกษียณแล้ว

ตำรวจกล่าวด้วยว่าขณะที่เกิดอุบัติเหตุนั้นไม่มีฝนตก จึงสงสัยว่าอุบัติเหตุเกิดจากความประมาทของคนขับ ซึ่งขับรถมาด้วยความเร็วสูง เมื่อถึงโค้งหักข้อศอก จึงไม่สามารถบังคับรถไว้ได้

Translation 1 (see also paradigmatic translation, Word file)

Bus overturns, 2 tourists dead

Chiang Mai – At least two elderly British tourists died and five others seriously injured yesterday when a bus traveling at high speed turned over on the road leading down from Doi Inthanon, the highest mountain in Thailand, police reported.

The list of casualties and injuries, mostly British, has not been revealed. Passengers on this tour bus were sightseeing foreign retirees.

There was no rain during the accident so carelessness of the driver is suspected as he was driving at high speed and could not control the vehicle at the sharp curve, police added.

Reference

เชียงใหม่ – See the Royal Institute's Directory of Thai province names in English: ชื่อจังหวัด เขต อำเภอ (pdf file)

Discussion

road
street
boulevard
avenue
highway
motorway
ถนนที่ลงมาจากดอยอินทนนท์
What action words collocate with roads? What verbs can be used with roads here?
Revealed or released?
reveal (Merriam-Webster)

1: to make known through divine inspiration

2: to make (something secret or hidden) publicly or generally known <reveal a secret>

3: to open up to view: display <the uncurtained window revealed a cluttered room>

release (Merriam-Webster)

transitive verb

1: to set free from restraint, confinement, or servitude <release hostages> <release pent-up emotions> <release the brakes>; also: to let go: dismiss <released from her job>

2: to relieve from something that confines, burdens, or oppresses <was released from her promise>

3: to give up in favor of another : relinquish <release a claim to property>

4: to give permission for publication, performance, exhibition, or sale of; also: to make available to the public <the commission released its findings> <release a new movie>

intransitive verb: to move from one's normal position (as in football or basketball) in order to assume another position or to perform a second assignment

retired + N or retirees?

Vocabulary

overturn (v.) (Merriam-Webster)

transitive verb
1: to cause to turn over: upset <overturned the vase>

2 a: invalidate , destroy b: reverse <overturn a court ruling>

intransitive verb: upset, turn over

turn over (v.)

Note that a car that has turned over is a car that has flipped over--its wheels are pointing at the sky and the roof is resting on the ground. This is different from the image of a page being turned over when you are turning the pages of a book (sideways) as you read. And turning the pages of a book over is different from turning single sheets of paper over as when you are given an exam paper face down. When you can begin the exam, you turn the paper over, meaning you turn the paper right side up (print side up).
- turn over a new leaf
  
  This unrelated phrase means “To begin anew; to change one’s ways” (The New Dictionary of Cultural Literacy)
  
  There's a funny anecdote about Oscar Wilde and his play with this expression:
  
  A metaphor often used in this context is “turning over a new leaf”, referring of course to the pages of a book. A sceptic might think that nothing fundamental can change in you between 23.59 on December 31st and 00.01 on January 1st. ,Indeed who could better express such doubts than Oscar Wilde. After his stint in Reading jail, Oscar Wilde was urged by a friend to mend his ways, to which Wilde agreed. But a few days later, the friend was shocked to catch Wilde engaging with enthusiasm in the very practices which had landed him in jail in the first place. "But Oscar, you said you would turn over a new leaf", he said. To which Wilde replied, "Yes, but I haven't yet got to the bottom of the page." ("New Year's Revolution")
- turn over sth. to s.o.
  
  This is also a different kind of "turning over" from a car in an accident. To turn something over to someone is to give it back or to surrender it to that person.
elderly

senior

aged
speeding

traveling at high speed
casualty (Merriam-Webster)

1 archaic: chance, fortune <losses that befall them by mere casualty — Sir Walter Raleigh>

2: serious or fatal accident: disaster

3 a: a military person lost through death, wounds, injury, sickness, internment, or capture or through being missing in action b: a person or thing injured, lost, or destroyed: victim <the ex-senator was a casualty of the last election>

injury (Merriam-Webster)

1 a: an act that damages or hurts: wrong b: violation of another's rights for which the law allows an action to recover damages

2: hurt, damage, or loss sustained

lose control

lose control of + N
sharp curve

hairpin turn, hairpin bend, hairpin corner
negotiating a curve

rounding a curve

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