[al:新概念英语（三）] [ar:MP3 同步字幕版（英音）] [ti:A Day to Remember] [by:更多学习内容，请到chazidian.com搜索“新概念”] [00:01.49]Lesson 33 [00:03.48]A day to remember [00:11.75]What incident began the series of traffic accidents? [00:17.61]We have all experienced days when everything goes wrong. [00:21.83]A day may begin well enough, but suddenly everything seems to get out of control. [00:27.82]What invariably happens is that a great number of things choose to go wrong at precisely the same moment. [00:35.44]It is as if a single unimportant event set up a chain of reactions. [00:41.54]Let us suppose that you are preparing a meal and keeping an eye on the baby at the same time. [00:48.50]The telephone rings and this marks the prelude to an unforeseen series of catastrophes. [00:55.73]While you are on the phone, the baby pulls the tablecloth off the table, [01:00.96]smashing half your best crockery and cutting himself in the process. [01:06.32]You hang up hurriedly and attend to baby, crockery, etc. [01:10.98]Meanwhile, the meal gets burnt. [01:13.78]As if this were not enough to reduce you to tears, [01:17.11]your husband arrives, unexpectedly bringing three guests to dinner. [01:23.00]Things can go wrong on a big scale [01:25.75]as a number of people recently discovered in Parramatta, a suburb of Sydney. [01:31.92]During the rush hour one evening two cars collided and both drivers began to argue. [01:37.89]The woman immediately behind the two cars happened to be a learner. [01:43.11]She suddenly got into a panic and stopped her car. [01:47.15]This made the driver following her brake hard. [01:50.86]His wife was sitting beside him holding a large cake. [01:54.93]As she was thrown forward, [01:56.75]the cake went right through the windscreen and landed on the road. [02:01.59]Seeing a cake flying through the air, [02:04.12]a lorry driver who was drawing up alongside the car, pulled up all of a sudden. [02:10.11]The lorry was loaded with empty beer bottles and hundreds of them slid off the back of the vehicle and on to the road. [02:18.38]This led to yet another angry argument. Meanwhile, the traffic piled up behind. [02:25.58]It took the police nearly an hour to get the traffic on the move again. [02:30.56]In the meantime, the lorry driver had to sweep up hundreds of broken bottles. [02:36.61]Only two stray dogs benefited from all this confusion, [02:40.86]for they greedily devoured what was left of the cake. [02:45.06]It was just one of those days!