VOA常速英语2019--新奥尔良二战国家博物馆起源于诺曼底登陆日入侵行动

New Orleans National World War II Museum Rooted in D-Day Invasion

You were a fighter pilot?------No.

你曾经是一名战斗机飞行员吗？-------不是的。 

Champ Vinet, "I’ll be 97 in a month", vividly¹ remembers June 6th ,1944, D-day.

尚·维纳特（Champ Vinet)说，“下个月我就97岁了。”他清楚地记得1944年6月6日，那天是诺曼底登陆日。

We knew it was coming, we didn’t know when, of course.

我们知道马上就要发生了，但不知道是什么时候。 

Vinet was training to become a bomber² pilot when allied³ forces landed on the beaches of Normandy in the largest military invasion in history.

在盟军登陆诺曼底海滩时，维纳特正在训练成为一名轰炸机飞行员，那是历史上最大规模的军事入侵。

But the drumbeats of war came to New Orleans long before.

但在此之前，战争的鼓声早已传到了新奥尔良。 

What World War Second did for my area the Lower Ninth Ward⁴ in New Orleans was create jobs.

第二次世界大战为我所在的地区----新奥尔良的下九区----创造了就业机会。 

We’re talking about coming out of a depression, where unemployment was 15 to 20 and War has created huge amount of jobs.

我们谈论的是走出萧条期，当时的失业率高达15%至20%，而战争带来了大量就业机会。 

New Orleans businessman Andrew Higgins was part of the pre-war US arsenal⁵ of democracy supplying equipment to America’s allies.

新奥尔良商人安德鲁·希金斯(Andrew Higgins)是战前美国民主军械库提供了部分武器，为美国的盟友提供装备。

When the US entered the fight in 1941, his factories equipped the military with a vessel⁶ critically important to the D-day invasion.

当美国于1941年参战时，他的工厂为军队配备了一艘对登陆日入侵至关重要的船只。 

In the immortal⁷ words of Dwight Eisenhower, this was how we won the war, without those Higgins’ boats ,there was no way that we could put a hundred and fifty six thousand troops onto the beaches of Normandy.

德怀特·艾森豪威尔Dwight Eisenhower的不朽名言提到，“这就是我们赢得战争的原因，没有希金斯家的船只，我们无法向诺曼底海滩派送一万五千六百名士兵。

And Keith Hudson is a senior director at the National World War Two Museum in New Orleans located where many of the Higgins boats were built.

基斯·哈德森（Keith Hudson）是新奥尔良国家二战博物馆的高级主管，希金斯家的很多船只都是在那建造的。

And this was New Orleans great contribution to that war effort.

这就是新奥尔良在战争中做出的巨大贡献。 

A contribution repaid in 2000 when the National D-day museum opened to highlight the Crescent city’s role in the war effort.

为了回报其所作出的贡献，在2000年，登陆日国家博物馆胜利开放，凸显新月城在战争中所扮演的角色。

But some veterans who visited felt the museum needed more.

但是一些来此参观的老兵们认为博物馆需要做更多。 

But we have to expand the story, you have to include all of the American experience in World War Two, why it was fought, how it won, and what it means today.

我们必须宣扬这个故事，必须涵括美国在第二次世界大战中学到的所有经验，如战争为何开始，如何获胜，以及其在今天的意义。

The National D-day museum transformed into the national World War Two museum in 2004that continues to grow in a four hundred million dollar expansion for seven hundred thousand people visit each year.

登陆日国家博物馆于2004年变为国家二战博物馆，现在坐拥一个馆区，该区每年以四亿美元持续增长，因为每年有七十万人参观。

I do not believe that our museum romanticizes World War Two.

我不相信我们的博物馆将浪漫化第二次世界大战。 

We try to show the realities and the realities of our pain and death and suffering for large parts of the world.

我们试图呈现现实，向世界大部分地区呈现我们遭受痛苦、死亡和苦难的现实。 

Champ a flew a number of missions in Europe during World War two as a bomber Pilot.

在第二次世界大战期间，作为轰炸机飞行员的尚（Champ）在欧洲执行了多项任务。 

He is now part of a dwindling⁸ number from the greatest generation.

他属于最伟大的那代人，该代人人数渐减。 

You know, how much people like you bomb.

你知道吗，有很多人喜欢你的轰炸故事。 

Along their stories, the accuracy wasn’t too well.

他们的故事不是很真实。  

Recently, Vinet recently started doing as a museum volunteer.

最近，维纳特成为一名博物馆志愿者。 

Vinet feels a sense of duty sharing stories of what he lived through and what was lost.

维纳特感觉自己有责任分享他所经历的事情，分享关于失去的那些故事。 

Maybe it’ll help prevent it happening again.

也许这有助于防止事件再次发生。  

Of course it was changed, it won’t happen that way but in World War Two life was cheap, we lost people by the millions.

当然，事情发生了变化，以后也不会发生这种情况。但是在世界第二次大战期间，生命很廉价，我们损失了数百万人。

A message that resonates with visitors to this museum which memorializes a war that General Dwight Eisenhower called a great and noble crusade.

博物馆的参观者都产生一种纪念战争的共鸣，艾森豪威尔将军称之为伟大而高贵的十字军的战争。 

1 vividly   

adv.清楚地，鲜明地，生动地

参考例句：

• The speaker pictured the suffering of the poor vividly.演讲者很生动地描述了穷人的生活。
• The characters in the book are vividly presented.这本书里的人物写得栩栩如生。

2 bomber   

n.轰炸机，投弹手，投掷炸弹者

参考例句：

• He flew a bomber during the war.他在战时驾驶轰炸机。
• Detectives hunting the London bombers will be keen to interview him.追查伦敦爆炸案凶犯的侦探们急于对他进行讯问。

3 allied   

adj.协约国的；同盟国的

参考例句：

• Britain was allied with the United States many times in history.历史上英国曾多次与美国结盟。
• Allied forces sustained heavy losses in the first few weeks of the campaign.同盟国在最初几周内遭受了巨大的损失。

4 ward   

n.守卫，监护，病房，行政区，由监护人或法院保护的人（尤指儿童）；vt.守护，躲开

参考例句：

• The hospital has a medical ward and a surgical ward.这家医院有内科病房和外科病房。
• During the evening picnic,I'll carry a torch to ward off the bugs.傍晚野餐时，我要点根火把，抵挡蚊虫。

5 arsenal   

n.兵工厂，军械库

参考例句：

• Even the workers at the arsenal have got a secret organization.兵工厂工人暗中也有组织。
• We must be the great arsenal of democracy.我们必须成为民主的大军火库。

6 vessel   

n.船舶；容器，器皿；管，导管，血管

参考例句：

• The vessel is fully loaded with cargo for Shanghai.这艘船满载货物驶往上海。
• You should put the water into a vessel.你应该把水装入容器中。

7 immortal   

adj.不朽的；永生的，不死的；神的

参考例句：

• The wild cocoa tree is effectively immortal.野生可可树实际上是不会死的。
• The heroes of the people are immortal!人民英雄永垂不朽！

8 dwindling   

adj.逐渐减少的v.逐渐变少或变小( dwindle的现在分词 )

参考例句：

• The number of wild animals on the earth is dwindling. 地球上野生动物的数量正日渐减少。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• He is struggling to come to terms with his dwindling authority. 他正努力适应自己权力被削弱这一局面。 来自辞典例句