SOS

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When a light passenger plane flew off course some time ago,

前些日子，一架小型客机偏离航线

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it crashed in the mountains and its pilot was killed.

在山区坠毁，飞行员当场丧生。

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The only passengers, a young woman and her two baby daughters, were unhurt.

唯一的乘客，一位年轻的妇女和她的两个女婴却安然无恙。

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It was the middle of winter.

那时正值隆冬。

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Snow lay thick on the ground.

地上覆盖着厚厚的积雪。

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The woman knew that the nearest village was miles away.

妇女知道最近的村庄也在数英里之外。

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When it grew dark, she turned a suitcase into a bed and put the children inside it,

天黑时，她把一只手提箱当作小床，把孩子们放了进去，

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covering them with all the clothes she could find.

又把自己能找到的所有衣服都盖在了她们身上。

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During the night, it got terribly cold.

夜里，天气变得异常寒冷。

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The woman kept as near as she could to the children and even tried to get into the case herself, but it was too small.

妇女尽可能地靠近孩子，甚至想自己也钻进箱子里，但箱子太小了。

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Early next morning,

第二天清早，

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she heard planes passing overhead and wondered how she could send a signal.

她听到飞机从头顶飞过，心想该如何发出求救信号呢？

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Then she had an idea. She stamped out the letters 'SOS' in the snow.

接着她有了一个主意。她在雪地上踩出了“SOS”这几个字母。

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Fortunately, a pilot saw the signal and sent a message by radio to the nearest town.

幸运的是，一名飞行员看到了这个信号，并用无线电把消息发给了最近的城镇。

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It was not long before a helicopter arrived on the scene to rescue the survivors of the plane crash.

不久，一架直升机飞抵现场，营救了这次飞机坠毁事故的幸存者。