I Could Have Been Died...
Last night, I had the awfully unpleasant moment. I could have been dead in the middle of nowhere of Iceland...
A woman and I went to the west side of Iceland. She drove for me for the entire time on the way. In terms of the west side, it is famous as there are one of the bigger volcanos and waterfalls. Nevertheless, going to the east side is more popular for tourists. Thus, heading to the west could be calmer and more relaxed. It was unluckily hard raining for a whole day yesterday. Driving is expected to be difficult, because raining bothered it. In addition, Iceland is very dark in the countryside at night.
When we went to back to Reykjavik around 9 in the evening, she drove with 80 km in average on the way. The car faced on the edge of the corner in the middle all of a sudden; I vaguely saw a kind of a sign in advance and felt something bad. I immediately said 'Stop, stop' a few times. But, it could not help us, and she could not react soon; the car dropped out from the road and jumped a steep into a embankment. I guess the car jumped over 10 meter. If the steep was cliff, we had been been died. I was thinking I would be dead at the moment. 'This is the end of my life'. Meanwhile, I finally figured out the truth that when people feel death at the moment, the time would go slow. I remember every details. when the car was jumping the steep.
Fortunately, the car did not hit at anything. In other words, it has no damage. We were not also damaged and injured.We were truly lucky; even though we could not manage that the car drove up the steep by ourselves. We, therefore, had to wait for a rescue between 2-3 hours. I was in shock last night. However, I am feeling much better after sleeping. It is the extremely rare experience. I am sure I would laugh at this in the future; although the incident was miserable.
In a nutshell, driving is always meant to be concentrated, and must be carefully.
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I Could Have Died...
Last night, I had an awfully unpleasant moment. I could have been dead in the middle of nowhere of Iceland...A woman and I went to the west side of Iceland. She drove me the whole way. The west side is famous for its bigger volcanoes and waterfalls. Nevertheless, going to the east side is more popular for tourists. Thus, heading to the west should have been calmer and more relaxed. Unluckily, it was raining hard the whole day before. Driving was expected to be difficult, because the rain bothered it. In addition, Iceland is very dark in the countryside at night.
When we went to back to Reykjavik around 9 in the evening, she drove at 80 km/h on average. The car faced on the edge of the corner in the middle all of a sudden; I vaguely saw a kind of a sign in advance and felt something bad. I immediately said 'Stop, stop' a few times. But, it could not help us, and she could not react fast enough. The car dropped out from the road and jumped a steep into a embankment. I guess the car jumped over 10 meters. If cliff were steeper we might have died. I was thinking I might have been killed at that moment. 'This is the end of my life'. Meanwhile, I finally figured out the truth that when people feel death nearby the time would go slow. I remember every detail when the car was jumping the steep.
Fortunately, the car did not hit anything. In other words, it was not damaged. We were not also damaged and injured. We were truly lucky; even though we could not manage to drive the car up the embankment ourselves. We therefore had to wait to be rescued for 2-3 hours. I was in shock last night. However, I am feeling much better after sleeping. It is an extremely rare experience. I am sure I will laugh at this in the future; although the incident was miserable.
In a nutshell, driving is always meant to be done while concentrated, and must be done carefully.
Very well written!
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I Could Have Been Dead Last Night.
Last night, I had the terribly unpleasant incident. I could have been dead in the middle of nowhere in Iceland...A woman(a friend?) and I went to the west of Iceland. She drove us the entire way. In terms of west Iceland, it is famous as there are one of the biggest volcanos and waterfalls. Nevertheless, going to the east is more popular for tourists. Therefore (thus is not often used - only in formal texts), heading to the west could be calmer and more relaxed. Unfortunately, it rained hard for the whole day yesterday. Driving is expected to be difficult, because raining bothered it. In addition, Iceland is very dark in the countryside at night.
When we went to back to Reykjavik at around 9 in the evening, she drove at 80 km on average. The car faced the edge of the corner all of a sudden; I vaguely saw a kind of a sign in advance and felt something bad (? you felt bad in yourself or you felt something from the car?). I immediately said 'Stop, stop' a few times. But, it did not help us, and she could not react soon; the car jumped into an embankment. I guess the car jumped over 10 meters. I was thinking I could be dead at that moment. 'This is the end of my life'. Meanwhile, I figured out that when people feel death at the moment, time goes slowly. I remember every details. when the car was jumping the steep.
Fortunately, the car did not hit at anything. In other words, it has there was no damage. We also were not injured (damaged is for objects not people).We were truly lucky; even though we could not believe that the car drove up the steep. We, therefore, had to wait for a rescue for 2-3 hours. I was in shock last night. However, I am feeling much better after sleeping. It is the extremely rare experience. I am sure I will laugh at this in the future; although the incident was horrible.
In a nutshell, driving is always meant to done carefully and when fully concentrating.
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例えば：
「Have been killed」は「私は殺された」という意味です。
「Have been died」は「私は死なれた」という意味です。
だから「Have been died」はできない。
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"Been died" doesn't work.
These are two ways of saying the same thing:
The accident might have killed you. You could have been killed by the accident.
The [Subject] might have [Verb] [Object]. [Object] could have been [Verb] by the [Subject]
You can't say:
"The accident might have died you. You could have been died by the accident"
Because that mixes the subject have object.
"Been Killed", "Been dead" or "Died" are both okay.
For example: "I Could Have Been Killed...", "I Could Have Died..." or "I Could Have Been Dead..."
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