英语听力：切格瓦拉的故事 - 19

 October 8th, 1967, after 11 months on the run, Che Guevara’s dreams of revolution have come to a bloody¹ end in the Bolivian jungles. We knew Che have been taken prisoner, we planned an escape to get out and report what had occurred, the truth about Bolivia.

 

With most of his men dead, Che and Viller a rebel soldier are escorted out of the ravine.

 

I gave him my shoulder to lean on him and he walked all the way.

 

It’s an arduous² hike, takes several hours and they took them to La Higuera, where he was placed in a little mud-wall school house there.

 

They had put Che in the place where I worked and they guarded him in a very responsible manner.

 

Curious, local school teacher Julia Cortez asks to see the prisoner in her classroom.

 

He was an extraordinarily³ handsome man. He wasn’t the man depicted⁴ to us, black, ugly, evil. His eyebrows⁵, his nose, his mouth, all of his features were perfect. I then went to my home and brought back a small bowl of soup which I brought to his cell. No one stopped me from doing so. He drank it with pleasure and thanked me. He said it was worth gold.

 

Captain Gary Prado, also speaks to Che.

 

I asked him that why did you give back a few weeks ago, or did you just disband your guerrilla.  "Where would I go?" he said. That’s was real a drama, they have no place to go.

 

Back in vagrant⁶ day, CIA agent Felix Rodriguez and the other Bolivian commanders received the news.

 

That evening we celebrated⁷ a bottle of Scotch⁸ .They celebrated

 

The next day, Felix Rodriguez and Bolivian Colonel Zantano arrived in La Higuera.

 

As you entered the room here on the left side, he was the tied down and the flooring in front of him was the bodies of two Cubans. He has lost. He looks like a beggar. We felt sorrow and pity at the way he looked. I mean, he was a total disaster.

 

Cornel Zantano tries to question Che.

 

Cornel Zantano was the one who did the talking with Che as he stood there with the other officer and he was asking questions to Che. Che wouldn't answer him. And Zantano said "man, you’re a foreigner, you came to my country, the least you can do is to answer me." And he wouldn’t answer him, so he left the room.

 

Felix sends a message that Che Guevara has been captured. The message has to be routed via CIA stations in various South American nations. It will take hours for the message to arrive in Washington.

 

Felix returns to the school house to see if Che will speak with them.

 

Whenever I tried to touch technically⁹ interest words, on how many people he has with him, where he had come from. But he would smile to me and say" you know, I can not answer that."

 

A lot of time, to be honest with you, I was not even paying attention to what he was saying. I was in my mind was running the images that I had seen him so many times next to Mao Zedong and the Soviet¹⁰ leaders, and in uniform and the way he looked at the point time. I mean, he was on his way of striking, eh, situation, an unique situation. Really.

 

Felix takes Che outside and poses with him for a photograph.

 

At that point time, I felt that, you know, his life was went to be expired.

 

A short time later, gunshots ring out from the school house.

 

I thought they have shot Che so I run back. I opened the door and he looked at me and I looked at him and then I run to the next door and I saw Welly who was, you know, just dying at the point in time. And I thought he was shooting to me because he had done the try to escape, which was very good. I mean, he's received order to execute him.

 

Later that morning, a message comes in from Bolivian high command in La Paz to the highest ranking officer on site.

 

Colonel Zantano wasn't to feel or the captain was aware, we are with him and there are only two lieutenants¹¹ and myself, and I had the the rank of captain in La Higuera, so they called me.

 

The Bolivians had number decode¹².

 

We knew from Varanda, 500 were Che, 600 was dead, and 700 was to keep him alive, so I asked them to repeat it.  They confirmed that was the 500 and the 600 from high command, and that’s why I’ve received the order 500 and 600.

1 bloody   

adj.非常的的；流血的；残忍的；adv.很；vt.血染

参考例句：

• He got a bloody nose in the fight.他在打斗中被打得鼻子流血。
• He is a bloody fool.他是一个十足的笨蛋。

2 arduous   

adj.艰苦的，费力的，陡峭的

参考例句：

• We must have patience in doing arduous work.我们做艰苦的工作要有耐性。
• The task was more arduous than he had calculated.这项任务比他所估计的要艰巨得多。

3 extraordinarily   

adv.格外地；极端地

参考例句：

• She is an extraordinarily beautiful girl.她是个美丽非凡的姑娘。
• The sea was extraordinarily calm that morning.那天清晨，大海出奇地宁静。

4 depicted   

描绘，描画( depict的过去式和过去分词 )； 描述

参考例句：

• Other animals were depicted on the periphery of the group. 其他动物在群像的外围加以修饰。
• They depicted the thrilling situation to us in great detail. 他们向我们详细地描述了那激动人心的场面。

5 eyebrows   

眉毛( eyebrow的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• Eyebrows stop sweat from coming down into the eyes. 眉毛挡住汗水使其不能流进眼睛。
• His eyebrows project noticeably. 他的眉毛特别突出。

6 vagrant   

n.流浪者，游民；adj.流浪的，漂泊不定的

参考例句：

• A vagrant is everywhere at home.流浪者四海为家。
• He lived on the street as a vagrant.他以在大街上乞讨为生。

7 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。

8 scotch   

n.伤口，刻痕；苏格兰威士忌酒；v.粉碎，消灭，阻止；adj.苏格兰(人)的

参考例句：

• Facts will eventually scotch these rumours.这种谣言在事实面前将不攻自破。
• Italy was full of fine views and virtually empty of Scotch whiskey.意大利多的是美景，真正缺的是苏格兰威士忌。

9 technically   

adv.专门地，技术上地

参考例句：

• Technically it is the most advanced equipment ever.从技术上说，这是最先进的设备。
• The tomato is technically a fruit,although it is eaten as a vegetable.严格地说，西红柿是一种水果，尽管它是当作蔬菜吃的。

10 Soviet   

adj.苏联的，苏维埃的；n.苏维埃

参考例句：

• Zhukov was a marshal of the former Soviet Union.朱可夫是前苏联的一位元帅。
• Germany began to attack the Soviet Union in 1941.德国在1941年开始进攻苏联。

11 lieutenants   

n.陆军中尉( lieutenant的名词复数 )；副职官员；空军；仅低于…官阶的官员

参考例句：

• In the army, lieutenants are subordinate to captains. 在陆军中，中尉是上尉的下级。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
• Lieutenants now cap at 1.5 from 1. Recon at 1. 中尉现在由1人口增加的1.5人口。侦查小组成员为1人口。 来自互联网

12 decode   

vt.译（码），解（码）

参考例句：

• All he had to do was decode it and pass it over.他需要做的就是将它破译然后转给他人。
• The secret documents were intercepted and decoded.机密文件遭截获并被破译。