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Unit7 text A In the days following the 9/11 terrorist attacks, Daily News staff writer Corky Siemaszko wrote several snapshots of the citys mood at the time. Siemaszko offered similar snapshots on the first few anniversaries of the attacks.Here we present a selection from the series. 9/11恐怖袭击后的数日内，《每日新闻》的专职撰稿人科基?西马兹科撰写了数篇反映纽约市当时氛围的快讯。在9/11的头几个周年纪念日，西马兹科又写了一些类似的快讯。下面是从其中选出的几篇。 Snapshots of New Yorks Mood after 9/11 Corky Siemaszko 9/11后纽约氛围写照 科基?西马兹科 DAY OF TERROR Originally published: 9/12/2001 The morning coffee was still cooling when our grandest illusion was shattered.Within minutes, one of New Yorks mightiest symbols was a smoldering mess and the nations image of invincibility was made a lie. 恐怖的一日 最初发表于2001年9月12日 早晨的咖啡还没有凉，我们最宏伟的幻想却已被粉碎。在数分钟时间内，纽约最显赫的象征之一成了一堆余烟未尽的废墟，而这个国家不可战胜的形象也成了一个谎言。 2. As the World Trade Center crumpled and the streets filled with screams and scenes of unimaginable horror, choking smoke blotted out the sun and plunged lower Manhattan into darkness. 当世界贸易中心倒塌、街道上到处都有人哭叫、充满难以想象的恐怖场景时，令人窒息的烟雾遮住了太阳，使曼哈顿下城区陷入了一片黑暗。 3. Those not entombed by the bomb-blasted buildings ran and ran — just as they did eight years earlier, when another terror attack shook this mighty symbol of Americas power. 那些炸毁的大楼内未被掩埋的人跑啊跑——就像八年前另一次恐怖袭击震撼了这个美国力量的显赫标志一样。 4．For the rest of the country, there was another shock to digest — a second kamikaze attack. This time on the Pentagon. 对于美国其他地方的人们，还有另一次震惊需要承受——第二次自杀性袭击，这次是对准五角大楼的。 5. More horror. More chaos. More amazement that the mighty United States could be so vulnerable to terror. 更多的恐怖，更大的混乱，更多的不可思议：强大的美国居然如此不堪恐怖分子一击。 6. But on the streets of lower Manhattan there was no time for finger-pointing. No time for talk of revenge. People were dying. Cops and firefighters were dying with them. 但是在曼哈顿下城区街道上，人们此刻没有时间责难和怪罪，没有时间谈报复。人们在死去，警察和消防队员也随着一起在死去。 7. Commentators called the attack a second Pearl Harbor, until now our most tragic hour. Politicians denounced the likely culprits in Afghanistan. And before dusk, there were in