BÀI LUẬN TIẾNG ANH HAY THEO CHỦ ĐỀ BÀI LUẬN TIẾNG ANH HAY A close brush with death It was raining cats and dogs.. Fortunately we were in a car and my uncle, who was driving, had the sit
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A close brush with death
It was raining cats and dogs Fortunately we were in a car and my uncle, who was driving, had the situation under control
We passed slowly by an oil-palm estate The driving rain made visibility poor So my uncle drove very carefully He had all the lights on So did the other drivers I could make out little blobs of light on the other cars through the white sheet of rain
Overhead, black clouds hovered ominously It felt as though they were about to fall on us at any moment Lightning streaked across the sky and onto the distant hills The ensuing thunder
rumbled unceasingly Some flashes of lightning came uncomfortably close and the resulting thunderclap was deafening, even with all our windows up
All of a sudden a bright flash of light blinded us and a very loud crack made melose my
bearings. The next thing I knew was that my uncle had stopped the car and his face was pale with shock I too was in shock What had happened?
For a long agonising moment I struggled to collect my scattered wits Then my uncle pointed a trembling finger at something outside the car I looked in the direction and saw an oil-palm some ten metres away literally split in half through the middle It was scorched black and smoking I then realised that it had just been struck by lightning
If the lightning had struck us instead, we would be scorched black and smoking too Still
trembling, my uncle quickly drove away from the danger zone We had just had a close brush with death It was close, too close for comfort
rain cats and dogs rain very heavily
ominously suggesting that something unpleasant is likely to happen
lose one's bearings lose one's position or situation relative to one's surroundings