常時英心:言葉の森から 1.0

約10年間,はてなダイアリーで英語表現の落穂拾いを行ってきました。現在はAmeba Blogに2.0を開設し,継続中です。こちらはしばらくアーカイブとして維持します。

croc-infested

バンジージャンプの途中でロープが切れ(!),111メートル上空からワニがたむろする川に投げ出された女性が奇跡的に一命をとりとめました。「感染した」のinfectedは「something-infested」の形で,「なになにが多く生息する,繁殖する」という意味で使われます。英語らしい便利な表現です。(ゼミ生 temple gate)
Aussie plunges into croc-infested waters after bungy cord snaps
January 9, 2012 - 9:49AM

An Australian woman escaped with just cuts and bruises after her bungy cord snapped during a New Year's Eve jump in Africa, sending her flying head-first into raging, crocodile-infested waters.
Erin Langworthy's ill-fated jump from the Victoria Falls bridge - 111 metres above the Zambezi River - was caught on camera, showing the rope snapping and a large splash in the water below.

Erin Langworthy was filmed leaping from the bungy platform seconds before the mishap. Photo: Channel Nine "I actually had to swim down and yank the bungy cord out of whatever it was caught onto," Ms Langworthy said.

She swam to rocks on the side of the river, where she waited to be rescued. "When I was first pulled out of the water they put me on my back and so all the water that I'd inhaled meant that I couldn't breathe, so I made them roll me onto my side.

Ms Langworthy was taken to hospital in South Africa, with bruises and grazes all over her body. "Yes, I think it's definitely a miracle that I survived." The Zambia Post reported Ms Langworthy swam to the Zimbabwean side of the river, which is the border between Zambia and Zimbabwe. Zimbabwean police rushed down a staircase to her aid, the newspaper reported.

Zambia's tourism minister Given Lubinda moved to reassure tourists that bungy jumping was safe. "The bungy has proven to be a very viable operation considering that more than 50,000 tourists jump on it every year," he told the Lusaka Times.

"It has been in operation for 10 years. This is the first time I am hearing of an incident. The probability of an incident is one in 500,000 jumps." Mr Lubinda said he would be working with the operator to make sure their equipment was safe and that bungy jumping was "incident-free". An investigation into the rope snap has been launched by the Tourism Ministry.

Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/travel/travel-incidents/aussie-plunges-into-crocinfested-waters-after-bungy-cord-snaps-20120109-1pqlk.html#ixzz1iureKdy9