While working as a television-news cameraman, I arrived at an accident scene. As I parked the news cruiser, I heard a policeman on the scanner using the radio phonetic alphabet to alert other officers. “Be aware that the Mike Echo Delta India Alpha has arrived,” he said. I approached the officer, looked him in the eye and said, “You might be surprised to know that some of us in the Mike Echo Delta India Alpha can Sierra Papa Echo Lima Lima.”
我是電視新聞攝影記者,來到一個事故現(xiàn)場。我在停新聞巡航車的時候,聽見監(jiān)測車上的警察使用無線電語音字母警告其他警察說:“小心,MEDIA(新聞記者)來了。我走到那個警察面前,看著他的眼睛說:“你可能會大吃一驚,怎么我們MEDIA的人也會SPELL(拼寫)?!?