We meet again. Yes, indeed.
I'm going to play a video again,
and then we'll watch this video together.
And then we'll go back and forth,
how we would describe it,
and what kind of reaction we would have.
So, Teacher Annie, what do you see right now?
Can you give a simple, brief description?
What I'm looking at should be a news clip, right?
It feels like a new news report,
just a simple, uh, introduction.
And in this picture, there is a man.
It should be what we call a sidewalk.
He is walking on this sidewalk.
there is a pile of trash next to him, right?
Yeah, a pile of trash is piled up there.
And then, on this side road,
which is the side road of this street,
there's a truck parked a bit further away.
Right, there are actually cars parked on both his left and right, right?
But seriously, who on earth
littered so much trash on the street? Haha.
it feels like his left hand is also holding some things,
and his right hand seems to be holding a phone, right?
But this should be taken by
a roadside security camera.
Now let's see what happens next.
A car just suddenly rushed over, right?
So, basically, this guy...
and he probably wasn't...
Normally people walk forward,
but he was walking backwards.
So he was walking backwards, right?
Uh, just in his opposite direction...
But any direction on the sidewalk is fine, right?
coincidentally, next to him,
the car backing up was going in the opposite direction, right?
Opposite direction from him, yeah.
Right, so it's like he and this...
the direction he was walking and the direction
this car was coming from just happened to clash, right?
it was heading straight towards him.
This car might have been trying to avoid...
This black car seemed to be dodging other cars,
and then it just rushed over all of a sudden.
But luckily, he was very...
he wasn't looking at his phone.
He was paying attention to the road.
So when this car rushed over,
if he had been playing on his phone, he might have been sent flying, right?
But he, he just managed to...
and dodged the car, right?
coming and rushing straight at him, right?
And he reacted very quickly, yes.
how could it possibly come from this direction?
I don't know either why it came out from over there...
Hey, let's watch it again.
But this guy was completely fine, hahaha!
He wasn't injured, right?
Let's watch the replay again.
this car was going forward,
but because this white car suddenly turned,
to make a U-turn, it seems,
but when it made the U-turn,
Actually, there was a car coming in this lane.
So this car, in order to... the black
car, to dodge the white car,
it could only turn right, right?
And rushed onto this spot on the sidewalk.
And then, he probably saw this person too,
and might have tried to dodge him, which means...
he couldn't react in time, right?
He was bound to crash into a car.
I mean, driving towards the side of the road
is better than crashing into that other car.
He didn't mean to hit this person,
short time, he had to make a split-second reaction.
Right, he drove towards the roadside,
and he also had to avoid...
avoiding this parked car by the roadside,
It seems he had no choice.
He could only rush into the space between these two cars.
Right, right. And I feel that
it feels like the path he came through,
it's like he just barely brushed past
another car next to him as he came through.
And then this guy was sandwiched in the middle.
The space between these two cars...
The gap in between was too small.
This is what we call a gap, right?
Here, when this car drove...
it actually had a gap between the car on the left
and the car on the right, right? Ah.
this man also reacted very quickly.
He just immediately pressed against...
the car on his left, and then he...
he was very, very lucky not to be
he immediately ran to this...
uh, leaning against this car, and then...
he realized this car passed behind him.
if he had hesitated for even a single second,
be in this world anymore.
Right, or he would have been severely injured,
and dragged under the wheels.
I think, just like you said,
the driver of this black car,
it was completely subconscious,
like, he didn't want to hit the white
truck parked by the roadside,
and he didn't want to hit the car
coming on his right side either.
So he only had this one path
Right, and it just so happened that this man was in the small gap
And then looking at the man's state,
looks like he doesn't have a single scratch on him, right?
Yes, I think this was purely
the car has already passed.
Wow, look at his expression, he's scared to death.
His legs completely gave out from shock.
When a person is in a state of extreme shock,
their legs will turn to jelly, and they immediately...
just collapse to the ground
Right, and I think his first reaction now is to look back.
First, his very first reaction is to look back.
this car just passed right behind him, right?
It's just that his legs are completely out of control,
He just fell to the ground all of a sudden.
For someone who is extremely lucky like this,
how would we usually describe them in Chinese?
I would think of 'surviving a great disaster'...
there must be... a blessing.
No, 'there must be great fortune ahead'.
I would think of 'surviving a great disaster
brings great fortune ahead'.
It means encountering a huge
and luckily surviving it.
This shows that his life in the future
must have great blessings waiting for him.
it might be his family members saying it to him:
'You survived this disaster, great fortune lies ahead.'
'In the future, you will have
better luck and things like that.'
I feel like this is called 'surviving a catastrophe'.
Yes, 'surviving a catastrophe', right, right, right.
Still alive. My god, this feels like
he is a lucky guy blessed by heaven.
You can also call him a lucky guy,
a lucky guy, right? Yeah.
Is there anything else? I...
I would also say 'he had a close brush with death'.
Like, the Grim Reaper wanted to take someone,
and just brushed past his shoulder.
Just like this car, right?
brushing past his back, haha.
Well, I guess the driver didn't know either,
and they couldn't stop it or something.
Right. So regarding this kind of lucky person,
can you think of any other expressions, or
maybe some very simple descriptions?
Isn't the title of this called 'Extreme Escape'?
If someone described to you
such a thrilling moment of theirs,
if I heard of such a thing happening,
or if it happened to my friend or family,
Because with this kind of thing,
you feel a lingering fear afterwards, right?
It's so terrifying to look back on.
Yeah, you would comfort them.
I would usually also say what you
said about 'surviving a great disaster'...
'Wow, you survived this, great fortune lies ahead.'
Right, to comfort them, right?
having nine lives or something.
'You will definitely have better luck from now on.'
Yes, 'narrowly escaped a disaster'.
Right, 'narrowly escaped a disaster'.
'You almost lost your life.'
Right, and some also said...
Netizens said, 'Thank goodness he wasn't looking at his phone while walking.'
three comments from everyone.
Ah, nobody commented, is that so?
Hahaha, never mind then, hahaha.
wait for more people to comment.
Everyone is probably too scared to speak.
I guess everyone was shocked.
Ah, but there are a lot of people on his Facebook...
Why are so many people liking this?
Why? Why did they like it?
Because he's still alive?
he posted it on both Facebook and Instagram.
I really feel like in life,
sometimes, simply being alive
You just feel that accidents...
Take this driver, for example,
he was just driving normally,
and to avoid the car in front making a U-turn,
maybe he didn't want to either,
It was the fault of the person making the U-turn.
This accident happened way too suddenly.
Right, and then look at this guy, he was just
walking normally on the sidewalk, right?
And then he just happened to encounter
a situation like this, and yet
he wasn't even looking at his phone,
so he was extremely lucky to dodge it.
But you know, nowadays everyone
always has their phone in hand.
I also often walk while...
and then those electric scooters
will just zoom past next to me.
Sometimes thinking about it, it's pretty scary.
So watching this kind of video makes me feel like...
We should enjoy life while we can.
You never know when an accident
will strike. We just have to
every minute, and every second, haha.
Right, elevating the topic.
Every time I see this kind of video, I feel like,
you really just want to be safe and sound.
and your family are all healthy,
I think that is already a very lucky thing.