【小龟乐游记】007之血石（9）

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Bond:Ping? Is that you?

Ping:Tell me,Commander Bond:How much do you know about whales?

Bond:Not much.Enough to know they shouldn't be kept aquariums¹.Apart from that,I wouldn't like to end up in one.

Ping:Then maybe you can understand what it's like to live inside the world's biggest country.There are one-point-three billion people living in China today,Mister Bond. 1.3 billion Chinese,who need to be _(1)_,and housed,and clothed - every day,every week,year-in,year out.

Bond:I am aware of the numbers - 

Ping:But perhaps not the implications.

Bond:Go on...

Ping:It's not that we're not as smart,or as technologically² _(2)_ as the West.We invented gun powder - and currency - while you were still living in caves.But in every society,there are those who would cheat.Those who would steal,to gain any advantage.

Bond:The researcher.Industrial espionage³.Someone in China was behind this? One of your people kidnapped,and killed him?

Ping:No.Something worse:An economic mercenary.Someone who would steal the most dangerous technologyical secrets and sell them to the highest bidder⁴.Not out of ideology,or politics,but for money,and power,to turn us against each other.

Bond:But who? Where? How do we find him,and stop him?

Ping:My team was in Geneva,following up on a link to this man.Do you recognize him?

Bond:No.

Ping:His name is Rak.He was born in northern Mongolia - on the contested border between Russia and China - and ___(3)___.He keeps his money and his mistress in Switzerland - 

Bond:But he operates out of Bangkok?

Ping:If it's illegal,he's got a piece of it.At first,we thought he was a middleman in all this,but -

1 aquariums   

n.养鱼缸，水族馆( aquarium的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• Biotope aquariums represent the natural environments of ornamental fish. 生态鱼缸表现出观赏鱼的自然生活环境。 来自互联网
• There are aquariums in many cities in the world. 世界上好多城市有水族馆。 来自互联网

2 technologically   

ad.技术上地

参考例句：

• Shanghai is a technologically advanced city. 上海是中国的一个技术先进的城市。
• Many senior managers are technologically illiterate. 许多高级经理都对技术知之甚少。

3 espionage   

n.间谍行为，谍报活动

参考例句：

• The authorities have arrested several people suspected of espionage.官方已经逮捕了几个涉嫌从事间谍活动的人。
• Neither was there any hint of espionage in Hanley's early life.汉利的早期生活也毫无进行间谍活动的迹象。

4 bidder   

n.(拍卖时的)出价人，报价人，投标人

参考例句：

• TV franchises will be auctioned to the highest bidder.电视特许经营权将拍卖给出价最高的投标人。
• The bidder withdrew his bid after submission of his bid.投标者在投标之后撤销了投标书。