【读新闻学英语】太酷了！新西兰警方的这个动作，网友狂赞（视频）

By 新西兰先驱报中文网· 2018年04月13日 03:08

视频来源/Wellington District Police

A Wellington police officer’s skateboard skills were caught on video while he was trying to impress the youths at a skate park in Wellington on Thursday night.

惠灵顿一名警察的滑板技巧被网友拍了下来。周四（4月12日）晚上，这名警察在惠灵顿一个滑板公园秀了一下他的滑板动作，试图给年轻人留下深刻印象。

Skateboard skill：滑板技巧

Impress：使钦佩；使敬仰；给…留下深刻的好印象

The officer is being praised on social media for the way he interacted with the young people, especially after being challenged by them to show what he could do with the skateboard.

这名警官与年轻人的互动方式，尤其是当他受到年轻人的挑战后，向年轻人展示了他的滑板技巧。此举在社交媒体上得到好评，网友纷纷点赞。

Praise：赞扬；表扬；称赞；颂扬

Interact：相互作用；交流；相互影响；沟通

Jay McDonald, who filmed the video, says police went to the Whitby skatepark in Wellington on Thursday night "looking for someone".

拍摄这段视频的Jay McDonald说，周四晚上，警方去惠灵顿的Whitby滑板公园“寻找某人”。

Look for：寻找；探索

"It was at 8pm and the police officers came down to the skatepark looking for someone in the area. They drove close by me and my mate, and my mate waved them down and ask if everything was okay then they replied with, 'Yeah, we are just looking for someone in the area'," McDonald recalls.

“当时是晚上8点，警察来到滑板公园，在这个地区寻找一个人。他们开车紧跟着我和我的同伴，于是我的同伴向他们挥手示意，询问是否一切正常，然后他们回答说：“嗯，我们只是在寻找该地区的某个人。” McDonald回忆道。

Recall：召回；回忆起；回想起；记起

"Then they were asking us questions about skateboarding then we challenged him to see what he could do then he came out and gave it a crack and me and my mate were enjoying it.

“然后警察问了我们关于滑板的问题，我们向他提出挑战，看看他能用滑板做什么（动作），接着他就出来秀了一下，我和我的同伴都乐在其中。”

Skateboarding：滑板运动

Give a crack：尝试做某事

"Really pleased to see police being able to still be friendly and jumping in the community and giving it a go," he told the Herald.

他说，“很高兴看到警察能够这么友好，能够在社区中活跃，与年轻人互动得这么融洽。”

Give it a go：试一试

The video was uploaded to the Whitby community page on Facebook and then shared by the Wellington District Police on the social network.

这段视频被上传到Facebook的Whitby社区页面，由惠灵顿地区警方在社交网络上分享。

Upload：上传

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