摘要：在杭州，四天之內(nèi)在同一個(gè)小區(qū)連續(xù)發(fā)生兩起電梯故障，這引發(fā)了居民們的擔(dān)憂。你知道怎么用英語(yǔ)表達(dá)嗎?

　　Two elevator malfunctions in the same residential community in Hangzhou within four days have residents worried.

　　An 8-month-old girl was flung out after her mother fell over as the elevator they were using plunged at the fifth floor and got stuck at the third on Saturday in Oasis Garden, a residential community in Hangzhou.

　　Just four days earlier, emergency physicians who had come to help a 70-year-old woman were stuck in an elevator in the same community. The doctors walked to the 22nd floor, where they found the woman, who by that time had no heart beat.

　　在杭州，四天之內(nèi)在同一個(gè)小區(qū)連續(xù)發(fā)生兩起電梯故障，這引發(fā)了居民們的擔(dān)憂。

　　周六，在杭州的綠洲花園小區(qū)里上演了驚險(xiǎn)一幕。由于電梯突然發(fā)生“自由落體”，八個(gè)月的女?huà)胪蝗粡钠淠赣H懷里跌出。所幸女?huà)氪┲^厚，沒(méi)有外傷。

　　僅僅四天前，該小區(qū)一名七旬老人突發(fā)疾病，然而當(dāng)急救車趕來(lái)時(shí)，醫(yī)務(wù)人員卻發(fā)現(xiàn)小區(qū)消防通道被堵，同時(shí)樓內(nèi)兩部電梯雙雙故障，無(wú)奈徒步跑上22樓到達(dá)老人家中。由于耽誤時(shí)間過(guò)長(zhǎng)老人搶救無(wú)效死亡。

　　【講解】：

　　"elevator malfunction"就是電梯故障的意思。elevator就是電梯的意思，要注意和escalator(自動(dòng)扶梯)加以區(qū)分。malfunction作名詞時(shí)是故障，失靈的意思。它也可以作為動(dòng)詞來(lái)使用。其反義詞就是function。是mal-這個(gè)前綴多表示“壞、惡”的意思，例如：maltreat(虐待)、malnutrition(營(yíng)養(yǎng)不良)、maladroit(笨拙的)等。