美国有线新闻 CNN 2013-03-01

 Hi, I'm Anderson Cooper, welcome to podcast. Intrigue¹ and sexually charged allegations surrounding Pope Benedict's departure and the choice of the next Pope, but also the ridiculous. Let's get started.

It's obviously hard to pierce the walls of secrecy² surrounding the inner workings of the Vatican, we want to talk about it more tonight with Christiane Amanpour, host of "AMANPOUR", she is in Rome and senior Vatican analyst³ John Allen, who's also there, he's a senior correspondent for the National Catholic Reporter.

John, you say the idea of an existence of some sort of network of gay men or gay priests or high officials inside the Vatican, isn't at all improbable but do you believe that's the reason the Pope is resigning?

No, Anderson, I don't, but I think for the most part, you have to take Benedict the XVI at his word, that he is resigning because of his age and because of fatigue⁴. Now on the other hand, I think you have to ask the question of why is he so fatigued⁵? You know and I think at least part of that picture is that he's spent much of the last eight years frustrated⁶. That his efforts to be a teaching Pope to conduct kind of global graduate seminar and the relationship between reason and faith and so on had been hampered⁷ by a kind of endless series of crises and controversies⁸ and meltdown, some of them coming in from outside and some of them self-inflicted, so I think that is indeed part of the calculus⁹, but fundamentally I don't think there are  some deep, dark secret. I think this one of those cases in terms that what you see is what you get.

John, what is known exactly about O'Brien? The allegations I've heard are a number of allegations apparently¹⁰ made by some current priests and even I believe one former priest of inappropriate efforts to have some sort of relationship or make some sort of pass at these people when they were priests. And this is a guy who when the British government was considering, you know, gay marriage came out vehemently¹¹ against it, saying, and I quote, "Their attempt to redefine reality is given a polite hearing, their madness is indulged, their proposal represents a grotesque¹² version of universally accepted human rights." I mean if this guy was, in fact, making advances at other male priests, the level of hypocrisy¹³ is great.

Well, you were right, I mean it is, it almost defies belief that someone would be leading such a double life and yet taking such a horrible lie in public, Now, of course, it is important to say the Cardinal¹⁴ O'Brien has firmly denied these charges. He's taken legal counsel, and he's, he's hired a lawyer to help him respond to these charges. And so as the story plays out, it remains¹⁵ to be seen how much fire there is beneath the smoke, I think what's relevant for the Vatican at the moment is that this has resurrected the drum beat of criticism that it has faced over the years that its sort of moral preaching to the world about sexual rectitude in some case, at least not matched on the ground by the behavior of some its clergy¹⁶.

1 intrigue   

vt.激起兴趣，迷住；vi.耍阴谋；n.阴谋，密谋

参考例句：

• Court officials will intrigue against the royal family.法院官员将密谋反对皇室。
• The royal palace was filled with intrigue.皇宫中充满了勾心斗角。

2 secrecy   

n.秘密，保密，隐蔽

参考例句：

• All the researchers on the project are sworn to secrecy.该项目的所有研究人员都按要求起誓保守秘密。
• Complete secrecy surrounded the meeting.会议在绝对机密的环境中进行。

3 analyst   

n.分析家，化验员；心理分析学家

参考例句：

• What can you contribute to the position of a market analyst?你有什么技能可有助于市场分析员的职务？
• The analyst is required to interpolate values between standards.分析人员需要在这些标准中插入一些值。

4 fatigue   

n.疲劳，劳累

参考例句：

• The old lady can't bear the fatigue of a long journey.这位老妇人不能忍受长途旅行的疲劳。
• I have got over my weakness and fatigue.我已从虚弱和疲劳中恢复过来了。

5 fatigued   

adj. 疲乏的

参考例句：

• The exercises fatigued her. 操练使她感到很疲乏。
• The President smiled, with fatigued tolerance for a minor person's naivety. 总统笑了笑，疲惫地表现出对一个下级人员的天真想法的宽容。

6 frustrated   

adj.挫败的，失意的，泄气的v.使不成功( frustrate的过去式和过去分词 )；挫败；使受挫折；令人沮丧

参考例句：

• It's very easy to get frustrated in this job. 这个工作很容易令人懊恼。
• The bad weather frustrated all our hopes of going out. 恶劣的天气破坏了我们出行的愿望。 来自《简明英汉词典》

7 hampered   

妨碍，束缚，限制( hamper的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• The search was hampered by appalling weather conditions. 恶劣的天气妨碍了搜寻工作。
• So thought every harassed, hampered, respectable boy in St. Petersburg. 圣彼德堡镇的那些受折磨、受拘束的体面孩子们个个都是这么想的。

8 controversies   

争论

参考例句：

• We offer no comment on these controversies here. 对于这些争议，我们在这里不作任何评论。 来自英汉非文学 - 历史
• The controversies surrounding population growth are unlikely to subside soon. 围绕着人口增长问题的争论看来不会很快平息。 来自辞典例句

9 calculus   

n.微积分；结石

参考例句：

• This is a problem where calculus won't help at all.对于这一题，微积分一点也用不上。
• After studying differential calculus you will be able to solve these mathematical problems.学了微积分之后，你们就能够解这些数学题了。

10 apparently   

adv.显然地；表面上，似乎

参考例句：

• An apparently blind alley leads suddenly into an open space.山穷水尽，豁然开朗。
• He was apparently much surprised at the news.他对那个消息显然感到十分惊异。

11 vehemently   

adv. 热烈地

参考例句：

• He argued with his wife so vehemently that he talked himself hoarse. 他和妻子争论得很激烈，以致讲话的声音都嘶哑了。
• Both women vehemently deny the charges against them. 两名妇女都激烈地否认了对她们的指控。

12 grotesque   

adj.怪诞的，丑陋的；n.怪诞的图案，怪人（物）

参考例句：

• His face has a grotesque appearance.他的面部表情十分怪。
• Her account of the incident was a grotesque distortion of the truth.她对这件事的陈述是荒诞地歪曲了事实。

13 hypocrisy   

n.伪善，虚伪

参考例句：

• He railed against hypocrisy and greed.他痛斥伪善和贪婪的行为。
• He accused newspapers of hypocrisy in their treatment of the story.他指责了报纸在报道该新闻时的虚伪。

14 cardinal   

n.(天主教的)红衣主教；adj.首要的，基本的

参考例句：

• This is a matter of cardinal significance.这是非常重要的事。
• The Cardinal coloured with vexation. 红衣主教感到恼火，脸涨得通红。

15 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。

16 clergy   

n.[总称]牧师，神职人员

参考例句：

• I could heartily wish that more of our country clergy would follow this example.我衷心希望，我国有更多的牧师效法这个榜样。
• All the local clergy attended the ceremony.当地所有的牧师出席了仪式。