访谈录 2010-03-09汤姆汉克斯Morning Joe访谈（二）

And it’s a very evocative stuff.

The guys, though, that fought in the Pacific, that fixed¹ things in the Pacific, worlds away from the glories of marching down streets in Paris. Remember, they are on the islands, specks² in the Pacific that nobody has ever heard of.

These guys in the Pacific got to essentially³ play naked volleyball when they had time off. And the guys in Europe got to go to Paris, France and go  see shows in Leicester Square. The glory and the glamour⁴ is distinctly distinctive⁵.

And a far more brutal⁶ war in the Pacific, if you read things like Flags of Our Fathers, as barbarous as the Nazis⁷ were to Jews and others, there were still some rules of engagement on the battlefield, but in the Pacific, it was just savagery⁸ all the time.

There was, uh, this was interesting. Band of Brothers came out, it was premiering, it actually premiered during 9/11, and we did not know what the reaction was going to be. Was it going to be the last thing anybody wanted to see, or was it going to be some sort of a tonic⁹? The Pacific, now is coming out where it represents a war that was of racism¹⁰ and terror. And what it seems is so the only way to complete one of these battles in these small specks of rock in the middle of nowhere, was to, I’m sorry, kill them all. And does that sound familiar to what we might be going through today? (Today) So, it’s, is there anything new under the sun? It seems as though history keeps repeating itself.

The other thing, Tom, in the Pacific, you didn’t have a correspondents corps  you had in Europe and that whole cadre of reporters going out on bombing runs, for example, out of wonder, and covering everything. Ernie Pyle didn't get to the Pacific until later. It was there that he was killed. And because they were island hopping¹¹, it was a lot harder to keep up with what was going on there as opposed to what was going on…

Even the great Ernie Pyle when he finally moved to the Pacific theatre and began to write about it. He was involved in a massive, amphibious landing, It is as if you couldn’t even tell what was going on, he went out on the rail of his ship in the middle of the night, thinking he was going to be in the middle of a huge flotilla, there wasn’t even a ship on the horizon. That’s how…
 

1 fixed   

adj.固定的，不变的，准备好的；(计算机)固定的

参考例句：

• Have you two fixed on a date for the wedding yet?你们俩选定婚期了吗？
• Once the aim is fixed,we should not change it arbitrarily.目标一旦确定，我们就不应该随意改变。

2 specks   

n.眼镜；斑点，微粒，污点( speck的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• Minutes later Brown spotted two specks in the ocean. 几分钟后布朗发现海洋中有两个小点。 来自英汉非文学 - 百科语料821
• Do you ever seem to see specks in front of your eyes? 你眼睛前面曾似乎看见过小点吗？ 来自辞典例句

3 essentially   

adv.本质上，实质上，基本上

参考例句：

• Really great men are essentially modest.真正的伟人大都很谦虚。
• She is an essentially selfish person.她本质上是个自私自利的人。

4 glamour   

n.魔力，魅力；vt.迷住

参考例句：

• Foreign travel has lost its glamour for her.到国外旅行对她已失去吸引力了。
• The moonlight cast a glamour over the scene.月光给景色增添了魅力。

5 distinctive   

adj.特别的，有特色的，与众不同的

参考例句：

• She has a very distinctive way of walking.她走路的样子与别人很不相同。
• This bird has several distinctive features.这个鸟具有几种突出的特征。

6 brutal   

adj.残忍的，野蛮的，不讲理的

参考例句：

• She has to face the brutal reality.她不得不去面对冷酷的现实。
• They're brutal people behind their civilised veneer.他们表面上温文有礼，骨子里却是野蛮残忍。

7 Nazis   

n.（德国的）纳粹党员( Nazi的名词复数 )；纳粹主义

参考例句：

• The Nazis worked them over with gun butts. 纳粹分子用枪托毒打他们。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The Nazis were responsible for the mass murder of Jews during World War Ⅱ. 纳粹必须为第二次世界大战中对犹太人的大屠杀负责。 来自《简明英汉词典》

8 savagery   

n.野性

参考例句：

• The police were shocked by the savagery of the attacks.警察对这些惨无人道的袭击感到震惊。
• They threw away their advantage by their savagery to the black population.他们因为野蛮对待黑人居民而丧失了自己的有利地位。

9 tonic   

n./adj.滋补品，补药，强身的，健体的

参考例句：

• It will be marketed as a tonic for the elderly.这将作为老年人滋补品在市场上销售。
• Sea air is Nature's best tonic for mind and body.海上的空气是大自然赋予的对人们身心的最佳补品。

10 racism   

n.民族主义；种族歧视(意识)

参考例句：

• He said that racism is endemic in this country.他说种族主义在该国很普遍。
• Racism causes political instability and violence.种族主义道致政治动荡和暴力事件。

11 hopping   

n. 跳跃 动词hop的现在分词形式

参考例句：

• The clubs in town are really hopping. 城里的俱乐部真够热闹的。
• I'm hopping over to Paris for the weekend. 我要去巴黎度周末。