Police have confirmed they have spoken to the man with a shopping trolley who rushed forward to subdue a knife-wielding attacker in Melbourne.

trolley n. 手推车；（美）有轨电车；（英）无轨电车；空中吊车 v. 用手推车运；乘电车

subdue v. 抑制；征服；减轻

Police Commissioner Graham Ashton said authorities had spoken to the heroic individual, dubbed, “trolley man”, but warned the public not to get involved in situations like the Bourke Street attack.

Police Commissioner 警察局局长

heroic adj. 英雄的；英勇的；夸张的；记叙英雄及其事迹的 n. 英勇行为；史诗

dubbed adj. 被称为；译制的

“Look, you just have to be a bit careful about — in that situation how close you do get — because he could have been injured himself,” Mr Ashton told Weekend Today on Saturday morning.

“But certainly he was acting in the spur of the moment and looking to support the police.

spur n. 鼓舞，刺激；马刺；山坡 v. 激励，鞭策；给···装踢马刺；骑马疾驰；给予刺激

“There was a number of people that did that and we are always grateful when the community are supporting our police members.

“Again, we just to be careful in the way that we do that.”

Police were at the scene of a major operation in Bourke St in the CBD yesterday, after a vehicle crashed and exploded in flames about 4.20pm.

The driver then got out and began stabbing pedestrians in a terrifying frenzy, injuring two and killing one, police have confirmed.

stab v. 刺；刺伤；刺痛；戳；刺穿；直入 n. 刺；戳；尝试；突发的一阵

pedestrians n. 行人

frenzy n. 狂暴；狂怒；暴怒 v. 使发狂；使狂怒

Video footage shows the dramatic moment the attacker lunges at two responding police officers with the knife.

dramatic adj. 戏剧的；急剧的；激动人心的；引人注目的

lunge at 冲向

Simultaneously, an heroic eyewitness rushes at the attacker with a shopping trolley, briefly slowing him down and falling in the process.

simultaneously adv. 同时地

Meanwhile, another bystander closes in while holding a chair grabbed from a nearby eatery.

bystander n. 旁观者；看热闹的人

eatery n. 小饭馆；简便饮食店

The first man then springs back into action, charging towards the attacker for a second time, shoving the trolley in his direction as police open fire.

spring back 回弹

charge v. 向···冲去；（使）充电；使承担；指责；装载；控告；索价；记在账上 n. 费用；电荷；掌管；控告；命令；负载

shove v. 猛推；撞；强使；挤 n. 推；挤

Mr Ashton later warned the public on Weekend Sunrise that “we do ask people to be very cautious in those situations. If a firearm was produced or in fact he lunged at those people they could have been injured and we don’t want that.

firearm n. 火器；枪炮

“Police were there and were trained and armed to deal with that situation which they did stop nonetheless, it is a spur of the moment thing and people are acting to try to help the police and try to bring about a resolution quickly.

“I do not criticise as people at all stop they had good intentions, but again, we just have to be careful at those times that their actions don’t get them into harms way.”

Despite the warnings from police, the snap-decision actions of trolley man have been praised on social media.

snap-decision 瞬间决定

“Total respect to the shopping trolley hero trying to take down a mad knife man with nothing but a metal basket on not very good wheels,” Paul Cochrane tweeted.

“Incredible work by police in Melbourne but also bystanders — one using a trolley to try subdue the man,” Cyndi Lavrencic said.

“Cops trying to take down man armed with knife. Passer-by seems to be trying to take him out with a shopping trolley!” Dan Nolan said.

passer-by n. 过路人；经过的人

Meanwhile on Facebook, the search is on to track down the man with a number of commenters on news.com.au’s page eager to shout him a beer.

shout···a beer 请人喝啤酒

—eg. I’ll shout you a beer. 

Victorian Premier Daniel Andrews, who is in the midst of the State Election campaign, praised the efforts of police.

misdt n. 当中，中间 prep. 在···中间

campaign n. 运动；活动，战役 v. 参加竞选；参加活动；作战

He also paid tribute to the bravery of “every day Victorians who came to the aid of complete strangers”.

pay tribute to 称赞，歌颂

aid n. 帮助；援助；助手；帮助者 v. 帮助；援助；有助于

The attacker has since died and the rampage is now being treated as a “terrorism incident”.

rampage n. 暴怒；暴跳；乱闹 v. 狂暴；发怒；乱闹

People are being urged to stay away from the area, which has been cordoned off by police. Investigations are continuing.

cordon off 布置警戒线戒严；隔离

文波陪伴，英语不难；

文波陪伴，PTE不难；

文波陪伴，雅思不难。

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