PBS高端访谈:南非哀悼逝世的国父曼德拉

 　　JUDY WOODRUFF: The death of Nelson Mandela resonated across South Africa and around the world today. Millions mourned the former president and symbol of racial reconciliation¹. And officials planned a mass memorial service on Tuesday.

　　We begin our coverage² with Rohit Kachroo of Independent Television News, reporting from South Africa.

　　ROHIT KACHROO: This was a day to mourn one life lost and a day to mark the many lives made by Nelson Mandela. The gift of freedom is being celebrated³ here. And even those lost in the sadness of his deathknow how much bleaker⁴ things here might have been.

　　WOMAN: Now we are free because of Madiba. I'm very, very sorry here. But, today, I'm sad and I have got happiness. I don't know what can I say.

　　ROHIT KACHROO: From his home last night, his coffin⁵ was brought away draped in the rainbow colors. His pain is over. But the hurt is now all theirs.

　　Yet, for all the bleary eyes and broken hearts, this nation was not broken, as the old songs of the struggle from sung through the night. And the new day brought the start of South Africa's future.

　　ARCHBISHOP DESMOND TUTU, Emeritus⁶ of Cape⁷ Town: The sun will rise tomorrow and the next day and the next. It may not appear as bright as yesterday, but life will carry on.

　　ROHIT KACHROO: The man who freed Nelson Mandela, the last apartheid president of South Africa, spoke⁸ today of the political enemy who became a friend.

　　F.W. DE KLERK, Former South African President: He was a great man. He was a very special man. I think his greatest legacy⁹ to South Africa and to the world is the emphasis which he has always put on the need for reconciliation.

　　ROHIT KACHROO: Mandela's condition had worsened over his final few days. This was his last appearancein public, confused, frail¹⁰, and fading, his stare broken only by the flash of a camera.

　　This afternoon, President Zuma went to comfort the Mandela family and to finalize¹¹ plans for his state funeral.

　　PRESIDENT JACOB ZUMA, South Africa: We will spend the week mourning his passing. We will also spend it celebrating a life well-lived, a life that we must all emulate¹².

　　ROHIT KACHROO: Nelson Mandela will now lie in state next week at Pretoria's Union Buildings, once a bastion of white rule. Here 19 years ago, he was sworn in as president, and the rainbow nation was born.

　　NELSON MANDELA: Never and never again shall it be that this beautiful land will again experience the oppression of one by another.

　　ROHIT KACHROO: It was from this building, South Africa's seat of government, that he helped to steer¹³ his country away from civil war.

　　NELSON MANDELA: The responsibility for driving the nation-building and reconciliation in this countryis not something that can be done by others. It is something in which I shall take a lead. And, therefore, I have to suppress my feelings.

　　ROHIT KACHROO: But the man the world most reveres¹⁴ wanted to be buried far from the capital city in the village he called his home, even when politics became his life.

　　Born in the British Empire, he will be buried in a distant corner of a country that is in every sense his, the man who made the miracle of modern South Africa, who brought a nation with him on his long walk to freedom. Though the world now mourns and presidents will visit, it is ordinary South Africans who gained from his struggle and are now finding out what this democracy looks like without him.

1 reconciliation   

n.和解，和谐，一致

参考例句：

• He was taken up with the reconciliation of husband and wife.他忙于做夫妻间的调解工作。
• Their handshake appeared to be a gesture of reconciliation.他们的握手似乎是和解的表示。

2 coverage   

n.报导，保险范围，保险额，范围，覆盖

参考例句：

• There's little coverage of foreign news in the newspaper.报纸上几乎没有国外新闻报道。
• This is an insurance policy with extensive coverage.这是一项承保范围广泛的保险。

3 celebrated   

adj.有名的，声誉卓著的

参考例句：

• He was soon one of the most celebrated young painters in England.不久他就成了英格兰最负盛名的年轻画家之一。
• The celebrated violinist was mobbed by the audience.观众团团围住了这位著名的小提琴演奏家。

4 bleaker   

阴冷的( bleak的比较级 )； （状况）无望的； 没有希望的； 光秃的

参考例句：

• Horoscopes are merely harmless escapism from an ever-bleaker world. 占星术只不过是让人逃避越发令人沮丧的世界的无害消遣罢了。
• On the ground the mood is bleaker. 具体形势更加严峻。

5 coffin   

n.棺材，灵柩

参考例句：

• When one's coffin is covered,all discussion about him can be settled.盖棺论定。
• The coffin was placed in the grave.那口棺材已安放到坟墓里去了。

6 emeritus   

adj.名誉退休的

参考例句：

• "Perhaps I can introduce Mr.Lake Kirby,an emeritus professor from Washington University?"请允许我介绍华盛顿大学名誉教授莱克柯尔比先生。
• He will continue as chairman emeritus.他将会继续担任荣誉主席。

7 cape   

n.海角，岬；披肩，短披风

参考例句：

• I long for a trip to the Cape of Good Hope.我渴望到好望角去旅行。
• She was wearing a cape over her dress.她在外套上披着一件披肩。

8 spoke   

n.（车轮的）辐条；轮辐；破坏某人的计划；阻挠某人的行动 v.讲，谈（speak的过去式）；说；演说；从某种观点来说

参考例句：

• They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
• The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。

9 legacy   

n.遗产，遗赠；先人(或过去)留下的东西

参考例句：

• They are the most precious cultural legacy our forefathers left.它们是我们祖先留下来的最宝贵的文化遗产。
• He thinks the legacy is a gift from the Gods.他认为这笔遗产是天赐之物。

10 frail   

adj.身体虚弱的；易损坏的

参考例句：

• Mrs. Warner is already 96 and too frail to live by herself.华纳太太已经九十六岁了，身体虚弱，不便独居。
• She lay in bed looking particularly frail.她躺在床上，看上去特别虚弱。

11 finalize   

v.落实，定下来

参考例句：

• Let us finalize tonight.让我们今天晚上干完
• 。At the same time,industrial designers work with engineers to finalize components and assembly.同时，工业设计师和工程师一道来完成部件和组装部分的工作。

12 emulate   

v.努力赶上或超越，与…竞争；效仿

参考例句：

• You must work hard to emulate your sister.你必须努力工作，赶上你姐姐。
• You must look at the film and try to emulate his behavior.你们必须观看这部电影，并尽力模仿他的动作。

13 steer   

vt.驾驶，为…操舵；引导；vi.驾驶

参考例句：

• If you push the car, I'll steer it.如果你来推车，我就来驾车。
• It's no use trying to steer the boy into a course of action that suits you.想说服这孩子按你的方式行事是徒劳的。

14 reveres   

v.崇敬，尊崇，敬畏( revere的第三人称单数 )

参考例句：

• Confucian philosophy reveres the teacher above all. 儒家哲学最讲究尊重师长。 来自互联网
• Group's idea: Have in mind gratefully, the heart checks and reveres, sincerity serve, fulfil one's duty. 团队理念：胸怀感激、心存敬畏、诚信服务、尽职尽责。 来自互联网