Example of Passage 3

Too little, too late

This morning at five o’clock, the Green Mountain restaurant caught on fire. Nobody noticed the fire until six o’clock, when the house next door started to burn. Firefighters came from all over the area. They began to fight the fire at seven o’clock. Now it’s eight o’clock, and the fire is still going strong. The firefighters are working hard, but the haven’t brought the blaze under control yet. Every few minutes they call for more help.

Fire Chief Brown says that in another hour they will have put out the fire in the house. At that time, the house will have been burning for three hours. Half the house will be gone. Chief Brown is afraid that the fire in the restaurant may go on until ten o’clock. Before it is out, the restaurant will have been blazing for five hours. Every few minutes, part of the building falls in.

Firefighters will have been fighting the fire in the restaurant for three hours. They will have been pumping water out of Green Mountain Lake to put out the fire. They will have been holding their hoses on the fire the whole time. However, the fire will have been burning too long. By the time the fire is under control, nothing will remain of the restaurant. The firefighters will have been working with all their strength, but it will have been too little and too late.

catch-verba
menangkap	catch, capture, arrest, seize, pick up, grab
mengerti	understand, know, see, get, comprehend, catch
mencekau	catch
naik	ride, rise, increase, go up, take, catch
menyergap	catch, lunge, attack, snarl
menangkapi	arrest, capture, catch, nab, detain, grab
ketularan	catch, pick up
menyela	interrupt, interject, cut in, jump in, break in, catch
mencedok	scoop, ladle, dip, adopt, catch, take
menyangkut	concern, involve, catch, foul

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blaze-nomina
api	fire, flame, blaze, light, glimmer, spirit
nyala api	flame, blaze, flare
suasana	atmosphere, environment, climate, air, scene, blaze
petak	swath, terrace, slot, partition, swathe, blaze
laut api	conflagration, blaze, hell
jolakan	blaze

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hose-nomina
selang	hose, interval, lapse, hiatus, interspace, rubber tube
slang	slang, hose, rubber tube
kaus kaki	sock, hosiery, stocking, hose
pipa air	water pipe, hose, hydrant, hosepipe
ularan	hose
ular-ular	hose, streamer, pennon