2017考研英语拓展阅读：墨西哥女记者怕湿鞋让灾民抬着走

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    2017考研英语拓展阅读：墨西哥女记者怕湿鞋让灾民抬着走
    A TV reporter caught on film being rescued from a puddle by townspeople in
Mexico was axed for apparently caring more about her fancy shoes than the story
she was there to cover.
    墨西哥某电视台的节目片段显示，两位灾民在洪灾现场抬着女主持人走过了一段泛水的街道。随后这名主持人因过分爱惜鞋子的不职业行为遭到了解雇。
    Lydia Cummings, 24, was in the city of Puebla in central Mexico in late
June when she was photographed getting ferried over a flooded street by a man
and a woman.
    24岁的莉迪亚·卡明斯曾于6月下旬到位于墨西哥中部的普埃布拉市报道当地的洪灾灾情，当时一男一女抬着她走过了一段被洪水淹没的街道，而摄像机恰好记录下了这一幕。
    She can be seen with her arms wrapped around both of their shoulders,
clutching a microphone in one hand and a pink cellphone in the other, as the two
townspeople hoisted her up from her legs, with their feet completely submerged
in the murky floodwater.
    画面显示，卡明斯的两只胳膊分别搂住两人的肩膀，一手拿着麦克风，一手拿着粉色的手机，两名灾民则分别抬着她的一只脚，自己的双脚却完全浸在泥泞的洪水中。
   

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The picture went viral almost instantly with the hashtag
#LadyReportera and became the subject of dozens of hilarious memes. She was
Photoshopped on top of a white horse, into a Titanic scene and being drunkenly
carried out of a Tequila bar, complete with a sombrero and a bottle of Jose
Cuervo.
   
    这张标签为#记者小姐的照片在网上引发了强烈反响，遭到了了众多网友的恶搞。在PS版的照片中，她时而骑在白马身上，时而穿越到《泰坦尼克号》的片段中，在另一张图片中，卡明斯喝醉了，带着宽边帽，手里拿着一瓶金快活龙舌兰金酒，身后是一家龙舌兰酒吧。
   

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She was given the face of Jesus Christ in another, and was
part of a winning soccer team celebrating their victory. She was criticized
online for acting like a “Princessa” and being too concerned with her presumably
expensive shoes and clothes.
   
    还有的网友把她的脸PS成了耶稣基督，其它图片中，她又和一支足球队共庆胜利。卡明斯招致网上一片批评之声，网友抨击她表现的好像一名“公主”，太在意自己昂贵的衣物和鞋子。
   

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The station she works for, Azteca Puebla, got wind of the
photo and fired the fashion-conscious reporter, tweeting a statement saying she
was disrespectful to the people of the community and will no longer be a part of
the Azteca Puebla team.
   
    卡明斯的雇主 Azteca Puebla电视台发现了这张照片，解雇了卡明斯，在推特上发表声明指责她对灾区人民缺乏尊重，将其从电视台除名。
   

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Minutes later, Cummings posted a video apology on Twitter,
saying she takes full responsibility for the photo.
   
    几分钟后，卡明斯在推特上上传了一段视频进行道歉，表示自己会承担所有的责任。
   

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“The photos posted lack professionalism and tact. All we
wanted to do was help and now we’ve created negativity,” Cummings said.
   
    卡明斯在视频中表示：“我在照片中的行为毫无职业性和技巧可言。我们原本怀着为灾区出力的愿望，结果却适得其反。”
    She told a local newspaper the couple offered to carry her and she was
scared it would be rude to decline.
    她告诉一家当地报纸《El Pais》，是这对夫妇主动要求施以援手，而自己觉得如果贸然拒绝显得有些缺乏教养。
    “I try to maintain a relationship of empathy with people and was afraid of
sounding rude if I refused the favor. I was [carried] two seconds and then asked
them to put me [down],” she told El Pais.
    她还说道：“我试着去理解受灾的群众，担心拒绝他们的好意会显得非常粗鲁。两秒钟后，我就要求他们放我下来。”
    Despite the drama, the reporter said she still has high hopes for a career
in journalism, and hopes to get her feet wet again — or for the first time.
    除了上述“表演”，卡明斯还表示自己非常期待重操旧业，希望能再一次浸湿自己的脚--亦或是第一次浸湿自己的脚。
    “Despite the bitter pill, I want to be a journalist. I love this
profession, I have covered several floods, which I [got] wet and never cared.
After all this [settles] down a little [I will] keep looking for opportunities,”
Cumming told El Pais.
    “虽然这是个惨痛的教训，可我仍然想做记者，我热爱这个行业。洪灾现场我不是第一次去了，当时就算双脚全湿也毫无影响。等事件平息下来，我会继续寻找做记者的机会。”
    “[Social networks] can work in your favor or against you and [can] change
from one to another in seconds. I must be more careful and be more aware of what
is shared in my network.”
    “(社交媒体)时而捧人上天，时而贬人入地，二者的转变更令人措不及防。今后我要愈发小心谨慎，对于网友分享的相关内容一定要做到心中有数。”
    来源：nypost