雅思口语Part2：改变生活的一件事

An incident which changed your life
You should say:
What happened?
Who was involved in it?
How did it change your life?

It was about 3 years ago when I was going to my friend’s house I was driving the car really fast. Speed always thrilled me and I always felt good by driving the car very fast so I was driving the car fast when a car passed me. It was so faster than me and I reckon it would be travelling at a speed of 200km/hr. First I thought me going at the same speed but then I stopped. After about 30 seconds I saw that the car had hit the truck and the driver of the fast car was dead.

大约三年前我去朋友家的时候，我开车开得很快。速度总是让我兴奋，我总是感觉很好，因为我把车开得很快，所以当一辆车超过我的时候，我就把车开得很快。它比我快得多，我估计它的速度是每小时200公里。起初我以为我以同样的速度走，但后来我停了下来。大约30秒钟后，我看到那辆车撞上了卡车，那辆快车的司机死了。

I was not directly involved in the accident, but it had an overwhelming effect on my life. It changed everything. I never took life seriously and I never considered driving to be hazardous activity, but the killing of the person had a devastating effect on my life. I realized that the thing which I considered to be fun could even take my life away and could destroy others too.

我没有直接参与这次事故，但它对我的生活产生了巨大的影响。它改变了一切。我从来没有认真对待生活，也从来没有想过开车是一种危险的行为，但是这个人的死亡对我的生活产生了毁灭性的影响。我意识到，我认为有趣的事情甚至可能夺走我的生命，也可能毁掉别人。

I made a strong determination that day that I would end this kind of behavior and try to avoid these things. I thought that doing this stuff could I also take another person’s life which for which I would have never been able to forgive myself.

那天我下定决心要结束这种行为，尽量避免这些事情发生。我想做这件事也能夺走别人的生命，而我永远无法原谅自己。

Now when I drive the car I drive the car at a low slow speed, and even if I have to reach to a place urgently I decide to drive slowly because it is better to reach late than never.

现在，当我开车的时候，我以低速低速行驶，即使我必须紧急到达一个地方，我也决定开慢点，因为迟到总比不迟到好。