英语听力：切格瓦拉的故事 - 17

 March 19th 1967, Che and his men are joined by a few old acquaintances. They include French Marxist Régis Debray, and two long-time supporters of the revolution artist Ciro Bustos and the former East German’s spy and suspected KGB operative named Tania. Firmly committed to the communist cause, Tania is the only link between the guerillas and the outside world.

 

Tania was the one who searched for everything before starting in battle, from clothes, shoes, food, ammo and everything. She quickly mobilized and got everything. She reached the highest levels of the Bolivian government.

 

But on one trip to the jungles, her cover’s blown. Tania is forced to stay with the guerillas, but for some, the conditions are too difficult.

 

The first information is gained from the settlers, but that confirm the information about foreigners in the region, and increasing tensions of creating in guerilla force

 

The army sends a patrol of 40 men into the area.

 

And that the patrol was ambushed¹ by the guerilla, and on the 10th of April, we had another two ambushes², two patrols were ambushed again by the guerillas.

 

Che decides to split the group in two. A rebel leader named Watkin (?) will take the rearguard while Che joins the vanguard. He instructs Régis Debray and Ciro Bustos to try to get a message out to Fidel Castro. And in their attempt to do so, they are captured and taken prisoner by Bolivian armed forces. Sergeant³ Miguel Aroyo interrogates⁴ them.

 

Bustos practically spoke⁵ voluntarily because he was very worried. We gave him food and he talked. Bustos drew images of the Cuban guerillas without naming them. And that’s when they are able to see Guevara’s profile with the beard and his pipe.

 

Régis Debray confirms Che’s identity.

 

When he re-surfaced, in Bolivian 1967, you see the CIA intelligence reports, we say, well, I guess we all are wrong in thinking that he might have been dead in these last several years because it appears he is alive and well and promoting revolution in the jungles of Bolivia.

 

The CIA sends a couple of agents to Bolivia in June 1967. One of them is Felix Rodriguez, the man who at age 18 had trained for the Bay of Pigs and a volunteer to assassinate⁶ Fidel Castro and Che.

 

In Bolivia, we are almost sure that he was trying to promote the guerilla in the area.

 

With evidence of Che trying to start a guerilla war in his country, Bolivian president Barrientos starts to a propaganda campaign against him.

 

They would say that if we went out, we would be mugged and raped⁷ by guerilla fighters. That’s what would be rumored⁸

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With Che Guevara back on the radar⁹, America begins to gear up to help the Bolivians.

 

It’s absolutely clear that the CIA made this No.1 priority in the summer of 1967, London Johnson was monitoring day by day the progress that was being made in tracking down and eliminating the great revolutionary Che Guevara.

 

A legacy¹⁰ of Kennedy’s presidency¹¹ is the creation of an elite¹² counter-insurgency group known as the ‘Green Berets’. They’re deployed¹³ to Bolivia.

 

The mission was to train from scratch a Bolivian ranger¹⁴ battalion¹⁵, specifically train them tactics to go after Che Guevara and his guerillas.

 

800 Bolivian soldiers are selected and trained in a camp called La Esperanza (it means "the hope").

 

We were like kids in a toy store, practicing with real war ammunitions, particularly machine guns, rifles, hand grenades, rockets.

 

They were willing students. They were enthusiastic. They turned out to be good soldiers.

 

As things heat up in Bolivia, Che decides it’s time to leave, but not with all of his comrades. It’s been four months since Che’s column had seen the real guard. They had stayed behind a base camp with the sick, including Tania. She was physically¹⁶ in a poor body shape. She got a uterus cancer that was eating her and there was a report from the guerilla, she was delaying the movement of the guerilla because she could hardly work.

 

1 ambushed   

v.埋伏( ambush的过去式和过去分词 )；埋伏着

参考例句：

• The general ambushed his troops in the dense woods. 将军把部队埋伏在浓密的树林里。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The military vehicles were ambushed. 军车遭到伏击。 来自《简明英汉词典》

2 ambushes   

n.埋伏( ambush的名词复数 )；伏击；埋伏着的人；设埋伏点v.埋伏( ambush的第三人称单数 )；埋伏着

参考例句：

• He was a specialist in ambushes, he said, and explained his tactics. 他说自己是埋伏战斗方面的专家，并讲述了他的战术。 来自互联网
• It makes ambushes rather fun. 它使得埋伏战术非常有趣。 来自互联网

3 sergeant   

n.警官，中士

参考例句：

• His elder brother is a sergeant.他哥哥是个警官。
• How many stripes are there on the sleeve of a sergeant?陆军中士的袖子上有多少条纹？

4 interrogates   

n.询问( interrogate的名词复数 )；审问；（在计算机或其他机器上）查询v.询问( interrogate的第三人称单数 )；审问；（在计算机或其他机器上）查询

参考例句：

• Blade interrogates Danny then kills him after he directs him to Boone. 刀锋审问了Danny然后在Danny带他去找Boone之后杀了他。 来自互联网
• The cop who made the drug arrest at Rick's place interrogates Kimberly. 在里克的屋子里将他们逮捕的警察对金伯利进行审讯。 来自互联网

5 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。

6 assassinate   

vt.暗杀，行刺，中伤

参考例句：

• The police exposed a criminal plot to assassinate the president.警方侦破了一个行刺总统的阴谋。
• A plot to assassinate the banker has been uncovered by the police.暗杀银行家的密谋被警方侦破了。

7 raped   

v.以暴力夺取，强夺( rape的过去式和过去分词 )；强奸

参考例句：

• A young woman was brutally raped in her own home. 一名年轻女子在自己家中惨遭强暴。 来自辞典例句
• We got stick together, or we will be having our women raped. 我们得团结一致，不然我们的妻女就会遭到蹂躏。 来自辞典例句

8 rumored   

adj.传说的，谣传的v.传闻( rumor的过去式和过去分词 )；[古]名誉；咕哝；[古]喧嚷

参考例句：

• It is rumored that he cheats on his wife. 据传他对他老婆不忠。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• It was rumored that the white officer had been a Swede. 传说那个白人军官是个瑞典人。 来自辞典例句

9 radar   

n.雷达，无线电探测器

参考例句：

• They are following the flight of an aircraft by radar.他们正在用雷达追踪一架飞机的飞行。
• Enemy ships were detected on the radar.敌舰的影像已显现在雷达上。

10 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。

11 presidency   

n.总统(校长，总经理)的职位(任期)

参考例句：

• Roosevelt was elected four times to the presidency of the United States.罗斯福连续当选四届美国总统。
• Two candidates are emerging as contestants for the presidency.两位候选人最终成为总统职位竞争者。

12 elite   

n.精英阶层；实力集团；adj.杰出的，卓越的

参考例句：

• The power elite inside the government is controlling foreign policy.政府内部的一群握有实权的精英控制着对外政策。
• We have a political elite in this country.我们国家有一群政治精英。

13 deployed   

（尤指军事行动）使展开( deploy的过去式和过去分词 )； 施展； 部署； 有效地利用

参考例句：

• Tanks have been deployed all along the front line. 沿整个前线已部署了坦克。
• The artillery was deployed to bear on the fort. 火炮是对着那个碉堡部署的。

14 ranger   

n.国家公园管理员，护林员；骑兵巡逻队员

参考例句：

• He was the head ranger of the national park.他曾是国家公园的首席看守员。
• He loved working as a ranger.他喜欢做护林人。

15 battalion   

n.营；部队；大队(的人)

参考例句：

• The town was garrisoned by a battalion.该镇由一营士兵驻守。
• At the end of the drill parade,the battalion fell out.操练之后，队伍解散了。

16 physically   

adj.物质上，体格上，身体上，按自然规律

参考例句：

• He was out of sorts physically,as well as disordered mentally.他浑身不舒服，心绪也很乱。
• Every time I think about it I feel physically sick.一想起那件事我就感到极恶心。