【英语语言学习】电台节目与电视节目

STEVE INSKEEP, HOST:

Next, we're going to tune¹ into the radio, as heard in Syria.

UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN #1: (Foreign language spoken)

INSKEEP: It's Radio Watan. It's an opposition² news source heard in parts of that country. Instead of being run by Syria's government, Radio Watan says it is independent, and also supported by U.S. government funds. The station is run by Obadah Al-Kaddri, who says radio penetrates³ parts of Syria where the Internet does not.

Why do it on the radio - of all the media that are available?

OBADAH AL-KADDRI: Actually, in liberated⁴ areas, there is no electricity, there is no TV. We make the FM radio because it is very easy to let the public to listen.

INSKEEP: Even in a bombed-out neighborhood, people may have radios that run on hand cranks or solar power. Al-Kaddri's studios are outside Syria, but if you want to do a radio broadcast, you need to be inside. Most radio transmitters do not carry that far. You've got to get a transmitter into Syria somewhere.

AL-KADDRI: I will tell you the story from the beginning. In 2011, our revolution become armed.

INSKEEP: Al-Kaddri was a surgeon back then, working in Damascus. But he began working with the rebels, helping⁵ them by sending media messages.

AL-KADDRI: To show our world what's happening outside Syria.

INSKEEP: There were many Syrians who were doing this, who were almost citizen journalists, in a way.

AL-KADDRI: Yeah, citizens, journalists. So, we decide to create the radio station. As you know, in Syria, you can't buy the transmitters.

INSKEEP: They don't allow it to be sold.

AL-KADDRI: Yeah, yeah.

INSKEEP: For the very reason that you might do the kinds of things, in fact, you have done.

AL-KADDRI: Yeah. So, we buy it through Internet from China. We send it to Jebel Ali, in the Emirates.

INSKEEP: The United Arab Emirates.

AL-KADDRI: Yeah. There, we have a businessman - Syrian. He changed the label of the transmitter from transmitter accoutrement to kid's toys.

INSKEEP: And the box labeled as kids' toys were shipped onward⁶ to Lebanon, then to Syria.

(SOUNDBITE OF RADIO BROADCAST)

UNIDENTIFIED MAN: (Foreign language spoken)

INSKEEP: From numerous transmitters now, Radio Watan has been broadcasting news, as well as music. It all comes out of a studio in Istanbul, Turkey, and is sent by satellite to the local stations.

AL-KADDRI: One program is the idea of it to bring one of the leader of the opposition and to make the public ask him what they want about the situation.

INSKEEP: You regularly will bring an opposition leader on the air.

AL-KADDRI: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

INSKEEP: What are some of the questions that people ask the opposition when they're given that chance?

AL-KADDRI: Actually, they are upset from them, most of them.

INSKEEP: They don't like the opposition.

AL-KADDRI: Yeah, yeah. They are not accepting what they are doing. And the acting⁷ of opposition is so weak.

INSKEEP: The opposition is also divided with extremists often fighting moderates. Al-Kaddri says he knows people are listening, including regime⁸ supporters who write on the station's Facebook page. What do they say?

AL-KADDRI: They say you are destroying the country. You are the terrorist⁹. You have to come back to the Bashar al-Assad, his base.

INSKEEP: The regime also got in touch more directly. Al-Kaddri contends¹⁰ that 15 of his relatives are now in jail, and he says two of his staff members inside Syria were killed.

AL-KADDRI: I have one of my team in Damascus. He is the broadcaster manager. He is arrested after three months. They send his ID card to his family. He has died in the jail.

INSKEEP: They sent his ID card to his family.

AL-KADDRI: Yeah.

INSKEEP: Just to let them know...

AL-KADDRI: He has died.

INSKEEP: Obadah Al-Kaddri himself says he cannot easily return to Syria, but he sometimes slips into rebel-held areas. He says he's doing audience research, asking people what they think of the station. It was in response to audience comments that Radio Watan began adding music to its lineup. People wanted something happy to balance all the bad news.

(SOUNDBITE OF MUSIC)

UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN #2: (Singing in foreign language)

INSKEEP: It's MORNING EDITION, from NPR News.

1 tune   

n.调子；和谐，协调；v.调音，调节，调整

参考例句：

• He'd written a tune,and played it to us on the piano.他写了一段曲子，并在钢琴上弹给我们听。
• The boy beat out a tune on a tin can.那男孩在易拉罐上敲出一首曲子。

2 opposition   

n.反对，敌对

参考例句：

• The party leader is facing opposition in his own backyard.该党领袖在自己的党內遇到了反对。
• The police tried to break down the prisoner's opposition.警察设法制住了那个囚犯的反抗。

3 penetrates   

v.穿过( penetrate的第三人称单数 )；刺入；了解；渗透

参考例句：

• This is a telescope that penetrates to the remote parts of the universe. 这是一架能看到宇宙中遥远地方的望远镜。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The dust is so fine that it easily penetrates all the buildings. 尘土极细，能极轻易地钻入一切建筑物。 来自辞典例句

4 liberated   

a.无拘束的，放纵的

参考例句：

• The city was liberated by the advancing army. 军队向前挺进，解放了那座城市。
• The heat brings about a chemical reaction, and oxygen is liberated. 热量引起化学反应，释放出氧气。

5 helping   

n.食物的一份&adj.帮助人的，辅助的

参考例句：

• The poor children regularly pony up for a second helping of my hamburger. 那些可怜的孩子们总是要求我把我的汉堡包再给他们一份。
• By doing this, they may at times be helping to restore competition. 这样一来, 他在某些时候,有助于竞争的加强。

6 onward   

adj.向前的，前进的；adv.向前，前进，在先

参考例句：

• The Yellow River surges onward like ten thousand horses galloping.黄河以万马奔腾之势滚滚向前。
• He followed in the steps of forerunners and marched onward.他跟随着先辈的足迹前进。

7 acting   

n.演戏，行为，假装；adj.代理的，临时的，演出用的

参考例句：

• Ignore her,she's just acting.别理她，她只是假装的。
• During the seventies,her acting career was in eclipse.在七十年代，她的表演生涯黯然失色。

8 regime   

n.政体，政权，制度

参考例句：

• Under the new regime in our office,no one is allowed to leave early.在新的办公制度下，谁也不能早退。
• The people finally rose up and overthrew the reactionary regime.人们终于起来把反动的政权推翻了。

9 terrorist   

n.恐怖主义者，恐怖分子

参考例句：

• Without the gun,I'm a sitting duck for any terrorist.没有这支枪，我就成了恐怖分子下手的目标了。
• The district was put on red alert during a terrorist's bomb scare.这个地区在得到恐怖分子炸弹恐吓后作了应急准备。

10 contends   

争夺( contend的第三人称单数 )； 竞争； 搏斗； 争斗

参考例句：

• He contends for his own individual soul against the universal reality. 他争取自己的个人灵魂而抗击宇宙的真实。
• Each side contends that the victory is its own. 对方都宣称自己获胜。