英语听力：切格瓦拉的故事 - 18

 He could hardly walk. Che wants to link up with the group to make their way towards the Andes for their final escape. Only days apart, both groups begin to move separately towards the Rio Grande. On August 31, Joaquin's column gets there first.

 

And they contacted a peasant to show them how to cross the river.

 

But the peasant betrays them and informs the army exactly where Joaquin plans to cross.

 

And when this group was crossing the river, we ambushed² them. 3 men were killed there, including Tania, the only women on the group.

 

She was shot through both arms, went through the whole body, and she, her body went right into the water, and basically the whole guerilla was annihilated³ with the exception of two guys. Once his comrades in the second column were wiped out, the story of Che Guevara in Bolivia was really a survival story after that. A kind of epic⁴ journey, they move from beastly hot thorny⁵ wilderness⁶ up into the high Andes, underfed, under ambush¹, sick.

 

By September, 39-year-old Che and his men had been moving through the harsh Bolivian jungles for ten months.

 

Che had lost almost half of his body weight, his hair was matted and long, his men were hallucinating.

 

One Parkel Chain was practically blind. Parkel was now crazy, he was mentally insane, really didn't want to fight any more. It was all terrible.

 

Che sends Banial to get some much needed supplies. As they approached the village of La Higuera, they run into an army ambush.

 

We automatically went from 22 men to 17, we lost 3, they got me. The board entered here and stayed here by the Madonna. I was able to return to where Che was located.

 

Wounded, sick and exhausted⁷, the guerillas move slowly through a ravine near la Higuera. On October 8th, they are spotted⁸ by a local farmer who reports back to an army officer. The 2nd Ranger⁹ Battalion¹⁰ is immediately deployed¹¹ to the area.

 

Everyone had to get their weapons and get ready. One of the columns was so large that they had 650 soldiers transporting during the night.

 

So I got about 17 men with me and went down till they get out from there to the ravine. As the Bolivian rangers¹² descend¹³ the mountains, Che realizes he and his men are trapped. They will have to fight their way out.

 

We received fire from the guerillas, two soldiers were killed, so we started fighting.

 

The guerillas are clearly outnumbered. Some of the guerillas were killed, Che himself was wounded and his rifle was literally¹⁴ shot out of his hand. He was incapable¹⁵ of firing it.

 

A Bolivian guerilla named Willy comes to his aid, trying to lead him to safety.

 

I had two soldiers for security to about 15 meters up. They have seen these two guys trying to get out of the ravine, coming slowly and they waited, and they were right after them.

 

The two guerillas have nowhere to run.

 

One thing that called my attention was still he was carrying a small pan, with 6 eggs. He was very careful of this 6 eggs probably because, He was going to use these food for the next days. I said "Who are you" and he said to me." Look, I am Che, and I am worth more alive than dead."

 

It has taken an army to catch him, but Che Guevara, has finally been caught. The Bolivians are hungry for blood, yet the only ones who can save him, are the one who Che hates the most.

1 ambush   

n.埋伏(地点)；伏兵；v.埋伏；伏击

参考例句：

• Our soldiers lay in ambush in the jungle for the enemy.我方战士埋伏在丛林中等待敌人。
• Four men led by a sergeant lay in ambush at the crossroads.由一名中士率领的四名士兵埋伏在十字路口。

2 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》

3 annihilated   

v.（彻底）消灭( annihilate的过去式和过去分词 )；使无效；废止；彻底击溃

参考例句：

• Our soldiers annihilated a force of three hundred enemy troops. 我军战士消灭了300名敌军。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
• We annihilated the enemy. 我们歼灭了敌人。 来自《简明英汉词典》

4 epic   

n.史诗，叙事诗；adj.史诗般的，壮丽的

参考例句：

• I gave up my epic and wrote this little tale instead.我放弃了写叙事诗，而写了这个小故事。
• They held a banquet of epic proportions.他们举行了盛大的宴会。

5 thorny   

adj.多刺的，棘手的

参考例句：

• The young captain is pondering over a thorny problem.年轻的上尉正在思考一个棘手的问题。
• The boys argued over the thorny points in the lesson.孩子们辩论功课中的难点。

6 wilderness   

n.杳无人烟的一片陆地、水等，荒漠

参考例句：

• She drove the herd of cattle through the wilderness.她赶着牛群穿过荒野。
• Education in the wilderness is not a matter of monetary means.荒凉地区的教育不是钱财问题。

7 exhausted   

adj.极其疲惫的，精疲力尽的

参考例句：

• It was a long haul home and we arrived exhausted.搬运回家的这段路程特别长，到家时我们已筋疲力尽。
• Jenny was exhausted by the hustle of city life.珍妮被城市生活的忙乱弄得筋疲力尽。

8 spotted   

adj.有斑点的，斑纹的，弄污了的

参考例句：

• The milkman selected the spotted cows,from among a herd of two hundred.牛奶商从一群200头牛中选出有斑点的牛。
• Sam's shop stocks short spotted socks.山姆的商店屯积了有斑点的短袜。

9 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。

10 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。

11 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。

12 rangers   

护林者( ranger的名词复数 )； 突击队员

参考例句：

• Do you know where the Rangers Stadium is? 你知道Rangers体育场在哪吗？ 来自超越目标英语 第3册
• Now I'm a Rangers' fan, so I like to be near the stadium. 现在我是Rangers的爱好者，所以我想离体育场近一点。 来自超越目标英语 第3册

13 descend   

vt./vi.传下来，下来，下降

参考例句：

• I hope the grace of God would descend on me.我期望上帝的恩惠。
• We're not going to descend to such methods.我们不会沦落到使用这种手段。

14 literally   

adv.照字面意义，逐字地；确实

参考例句：

• He translated the passage literally.他逐字逐句地翻译这段文字。
• Sometimes she would not sit down till she was literally faint.有时候，她不走到真正要昏厥了，决不肯坐下来。

15 incapable   

adj.无能力的，不能做某事的

参考例句：

• He would be incapable of committing such a cruel deed.他不会做出这么残忍的事。
• Computers are incapable of creative thought.计算机不会创造性地思维。