Imagine you’ve got a train and it’s hurtling down a track. In its path, 5 people are trapped on the line and cannot escape. Fortunately, you can flick a switch which diverts the train down a fork in that track away from those 5 people – but at a price. There is another person trapped down that fork, and the train will kill them instead.
Question: Should you flick the switch?
hurtling v.急飞，猛烈碰撞，猛掷
hurtling down 猛冲下来
trapped adj.受困的，受限制的
flick v.（尤指用手指或手快速地）轻击，轻弹；（使）突然快速移动；用（毛巾、绳等）轻拂，轻快地甩打；向……笑了一下（或瞥了一眼等）；轻按开关（打开或关上）
divert v.转移
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