英语听力：切格瓦拉的故事 - 21

 I got on top of the washer to get a good angle, kneeled a bit and took one of the best pictures circulating in the world, I'm told.

 

That evening, Felix meets with the top brass¹ of the Bolivian army. One of the generals is concerned people may not believe this is really the body of Che Guevara.

 

In Haiti, Fidel Castrol denied that this is Che Guevara. We need really approval. And he said," Cut his head and put in for my eye." I said," you are a head of state, you can not present a head of human being as a proof." So he said," Colonel cut both hands put in for my eye." So they cut both hands this level.

 

Che's hands were sent to Cuba as proof that he's dead.

 

It was the next day when Che's body disappeared.

 

Che's body, along with his dead comrades have been secretly buried in an undisclosed place.

 

It was a combination decision between the Bolivian president, the CIA and the generals on the ground there. The idea was to deny Che, a burial place where his followers² would find him and be able to render tribute to him.

 

October 18th, Fidel announces Che's death to the people of Cuba.

 

When I heard that Che had died, I didn't believe it. I didn't think it was possible.

 

Around the world, people demonstrate and protest against his execution. In death, Che's legend grows.

 

His face has come to be the quintessential icon³ for youthful defiance⁴ of the status quo.

 

Che's burial site remains⁵ a mystery for 28 years until author John Lee Anderson uncovers the truth.

 

I had an interview with the retired⁶ general Mario Vargas Salinas, and it occurred to me almost in passing just to ask him. So where's Che's body? Which I knew to be a military secret. And much to my shock, he sat back down and said, "Well, look, I'll be willing to tell you about that." And he told me.

 

The remains of seven bodies are found in Vallegrande.

 

And I will never forget going to this pit and they just told me under their breath, "John Lee, that’s him?"

 

You are aware that you're looking at a crime scene that an entire state had tried to cover up. And so you feel history just wash over you, and I feel great about revealing that history.

 

Che and others are finally laid to rest in a tomb in Santa Clara, Cuba on the 30th anniversary of his death.

 

His beautiful martyrdom helped play out in nurturing⁷ and encouraging future generations of revolutionaries in Latin America and elsewhere.

 

Yet che's only real success as a revolutionary had been in Cuba.

 

The problem is that he failed and none of the things that he wanted to change have been changed yet. Most of the people that have contact with Che Guavara and helped him in any sort of the way really paid the consequences.

 

From the whole group in Bolivia, only 3 of us survived, 3 of us Cubans.

 

I'm in part glad that Che did not live to see all the things that are now going on in Cuba because he would die of a heart attack, rage and disgust.

 

Benial now lives in an exile in Paris and he's considered a traitor⁸ in Cuba.

 

Che's still remembered in Bolivia, its socialist⁹ president Evo Morales is a critic of the United States.

 

If we had Che Guavara today, we would easily be undergoing huge transformations¹⁰. His principles for a life, sovereignty for Latin America, for the people. Is these principles that we share and take with us as we go forward. Now as when we need a Che, not so much for the arm force but for the defence of humanity.

 

Nobody talks that guerrilla war for any more today, it's all terrorism. It's not Che Guavara, it's Osama Ben Laden¹¹ and people like him. Che was almost the purist. He didn't agree with terrorism. There were no car bombs in Che's world war. There were no suicide bombers¹². There was the idea of noble sacrifice. In the end, Che was a paradox¹³, both, someone who's social, indignation and passion, I can empathize with and understand, but someone who's cold logic¹⁴ at a time and his rhetoric¹⁵. And sometimes whose actions, I found, terrifying. Someone whose aspirations¹⁶ were to change the world, and who tried but ultimately failed.

1 brass   

n.黄铜；黄铜器，铜管乐器

参考例句：

• Many of the workers play in the factory's brass band.许多工人都在工厂铜管乐队中演奏。
• Brass is formed by the fusion of copper and zinc.黄铜是通过铜和锌的熔合而成的。

2 followers   

追随者( follower的名词复数 )； 用户； 契据的附面； 从动件

参考例句：

• the followers of Mahatma Gandhi 圣雄甘地的拥护者
• The reformer soon gathered a band of followers round him. 改革者很快就获得一群追随者支持他。

3 icon   

n.偶像，崇拜的对象，画像

参考例句：

• They found an icon in the monastery.他们在修道院中发现了一个圣像。
• Click on this icon to align or justify text.点击这个图标使文本排齐。

4 defiance   

n.挑战，挑衅，蔑视，违抗

参考例句：

• He climbed the ladder in defiance of the warning.他无视警告爬上了那架梯子。
• He slammed the door in a spirit of defiance.他以挑衅性的态度把门砰地一下关上。

5 remains   

n.剩余物，残留物；遗体，遗迹

参考例句：

• He ate the remains of food hungrily.他狼吞虎咽地吃剩余的食物。
• The remains of the meal were fed to the dog.残羹剩饭喂狗了。

6 retired   

adj.隐退的，退休的，退役的

参考例句：

• The old man retired to the country for rest.这位老人下乡休息去了。
• Many retired people take up gardening as a hobby.许多退休的人都以从事园艺为嗜好。

7 nurturing   

养育( nurture的现在分词 )； 培育； 滋长； 助长

参考例句：

• These delicate plants need careful nurturing. 这些幼嫩的植物需要精心培育。
• The modern conservatory is not an environment for nurturing plants. 这个现代化温室的环境不适合培育植物。

8 traitor   

n.叛徒，卖国贼

参考例句：

• The traitor was finally found out and put in prison.那个卖国贼终于被人发现并被监禁了起来。
• He was sold out by a traitor and arrested.他被叛徒出卖而被捕了。

9 socialist   

n.社会主义者；adj.社会主义的

参考例句：

• China is a socialist country,and a developing country as well.中国是一个社会主义国家，也是一个发展中国家。
• His father was an ardent socialist.他父亲是一个热情的社会主义者。

10 transformations   

n.变化( transformation的名词复数 )；转换；转换；变换

参考例句：

• Energy transformations go on constantly, all about us. 在我们周围，能量始终在不停地转换着。 来自辞典例句
• On the average, such transformations balance out. 平均起来，这种转化可以互相抵消。 来自辞典例句

11 laden   

adj.装满了的；充满了的；负了重担的；苦恼的

参考例句：

• He is laden with heavy responsibility.他肩负重任。
• Dragging the fully laden boat across the sand dunes was no mean feat.将满载货物的船拖过沙丘是一件了不起的事。

12 bombers   

n.轰炸机( bomber的名词复数 )；投弹手；安非他明胶囊；大麻叶香烟

参考例句：

• Enemy bombers carried out a blitz on the city. 敌军轰炸机对这座城市进行了突袭。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The Royal Airforce sill remained dangerously short of bombers. 英国皇家空军仍未脱离极为缺乏轰炸机的危境。 来自《简明英汉词典》

13 paradox   

n.似乎矛盾却正确的说法；自相矛盾的人(物)

参考例句：

• The story contains many levels of paradox.这个故事存在多重悖论。
• The paradox is that Japan does need serious education reform.矛盾的地方是日本确实需要教育改革。

14 logic   

n.逻辑(学)；逻辑性

参考例句：

• What sort of logic is that?这是什么逻辑？
• I don't follow the logic of your argument.我不明白你的论点逻辑性何在。

15 rhetoric   

n.修辞学，浮夸之言语

参考例句：

• Do you know something about rhetoric?你懂点修辞学吗？
• Behind all the rhetoric,his relations with the army are dangerously poised.在冠冕堂皇的言辞背后，他和军队的关系岌岌可危。

16 aspirations   

强烈的愿望( aspiration的名词复数 )； 志向； 发送气音； 发 h 音

参考例句：

• I didn't realize you had political aspirations. 我没有意识到你有政治上的抱负。
• The new treaty embodies the aspirations of most nonaligned countries. 新条约体现了大多数不结盟国家的愿望。