[00:00.00]A tornado can be a dangerous weather event.#
龙卷风是一种非常危险的天气现象。#
[00:05.08]It is often described as “violent” and “destructive.”#
提起龙卷风会让人想到“猛烈”和“毁灭性”等形容词。#
[00:10.82]Tornadoes are known for their strong, fast-moving winds.#
快速的风力而闻名。#
[00:17.13]They can kill people and destroy buildings.#
龙卷风以其强劲，龙卷风能够造成人员伤亡，建筑物毁坏。#
[00:21.82]Sometimes the winds create what is called a funnel cloud.#
有时候，龙卷风会产生漏斗云。#
[00:27.69]The cloud moves quickly along the ground, striking down and pushing away whatever it hits.#
而漏斗云会沿着地面快速旋转，旋风所到之处皆面目疮痍。#
[00:36.21]When a tornado is nearby,#
龙卷风来临时，#
[00:39.19]people are advised to go inside a building#
人们最好躲进建筑物内#
[00:42.96]and down to the basement or hide in the strongest part of the structure.#
或地下室，藏身于建筑物内最坚固的地方。#
[00:50.53]But recently, one man thought he could still get some outdoor work done even when a tornado was nearby.#
近日，一男子在龙卷风靠近时依旧淡定地继续着户外工作。#
[00:59.86]Theunis Wessels of Alberta, Canada would not get inside his home, even when his daughter asked him to.#
加拿大亚伯达省的韦塞尔·特尼斯（Theunis Wessels）在听到女儿的呼喊后依旧不肯返回屋内。#
[01:12.40]Wessels said he had to cut the grass growing around his house#
韦塞尔称，他必须赶时间修剪房子周边的草坪。#
[01:18.57]because there were too many activities planned for the weekend.#
因为周末的活动计划太多。#
[01:23.14]So his wife, Cecilia, came outside to ask him to come in.#
他的妻子塞西莉亚提醒他赶紧进屋。#
[01:29.08]He would not, so she took a photograph and shared it on Facebook.#
他还是不为所动，因此妻子拍下了他淡定除草的照片并分享到脸书上。#
[01:36.12]Cecilia Wessels wrote “my beast mowing the lawn with a breeze in his hair.”#
塞西莉亚配文称：“头顶一缕微风淡定除草的硬汉”。#
[01:43.83]The photo captured the imagination of many people on social media.#
这张照片激发了广大网友的想象力。#
[01:49.94]Some added words or pictures to her photo and posted the new version online.#
有的网友将这张照片重新配文，配图后发布到网络上。#
[01:57.45]One person wrote: “life in Canada summed up in one picture.”#
一位网友写到：“一张图告诉你加拿大人的日常。”#
[02:04.95]Another wrote: “this is all of us getting through 2017.”#
还有网友写道：“这是我们2017年的写照”。
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