高级英语听力 lesson 1

 

   1. Freed American hostage, David Jacobsen, appealed today for the release of the remaining captives in Lebanon, saying, "Those guys are in hell and we've got to get them home." Jacobsen made his remarks as he arrived at Wiesbaden, West Germany, accompanied by Anglican Church envoy¹, Terry Waite, who worked to gain his release.  And Waite says his efforts will continue.  Jacobsen had a checkup at the air force hospital in Wiesbaden.  And hospital director, Colonel Charles Moffitt says he is doing well.  "Although Mr. Jacobsen is tired, our initial impression is that he is physically² in very good condition.  It also seems that he has dealt with the stresses
of his captivity³ extremely well." Although Jacobsen criticized the US government's handling of the hostage situation in a videotape made during his captivity, today he thanked the Reagan Administration and said he was darn proud to be an American.  The Reagan Administration had little to say today about the release of Jacobsen or the likelihood that other hostages may be freed.  Boarding Air Force One in Las Vegas, the President said, "There's no way to tell right now.  We've been working on that.  We've had heart-breaking disap pointments."
   2. Mr. Reagan was in Las Vegas campaigning for Republican candidate, Jim Santini, who is running behind Democrat⁴, Harry⁵ Ree .
   3. In Mozambique today a new president was chosen to replace Samora Machel who died in a plane crash two weeks ago.  NPR's John Madison reports: "The choice of the 130-member Central Committee of the ruling FRELIMO Party was announced on Mozamlique radio this evening.  He is Joaquim, Chissano, Mozambique's Foreign Minister, No. 3 in the Party.  Chissano, who is forty-seven, was Prime Minister of the nine-month transitional government that preceded independence from Portugal in 1975.  He negotiated the transfer of power with Portugal.
  Section Two: News in Detail
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       This much is clear tonight: an America,, held in Leban almost a Year dnd a half is free.  David Jacobse is recuperating⁶ in a hospital in Wiesbaden, West Germany. Twenty-four hours earlier, Jacobsen was released in Beirut by Islamic Jihad.  But this remains⁷ a mystery: what precisely⁸ led to his freedom?  Jacobsen will spend the next several days in the US air force facility in Wiesbaden for a medical examination.  Diedre Barber reports.
      After Preliminary medical checkups today, David Jacob's doctor said he was ired but physically in very good condition. US air force hospital commander, Charles A4offltt, said in a medical briefing this afternoon that Jacobsen had lost little weight  seemed extremely fit.  He joked that he would not like to take    Jacobsen,'s challenge to reporters earlier in the day to a six-mile jog around the airport. Despite his obvious fatigue⁹, Jacobsen spent the afternoon being examined by hospital doctors.  He was also seen by a member of the special stress-management team sent from Washington. Colonel Mofritt said that after an initial evaluation¹⁰ it seems as if Jacobsen coped extremely well with the stresses of his captivity.  He said there was also no evidence at this point that the fifty-five-year-old hospital director had been tortured or physically abused.  Jacobsen seemed very alert, asking detailed¹¹ questions about the facilities of the Wiesbaden medical complex, according to Moffitt.
   So far, Jacobsen has refused to answer questions about his five hundred and twenty-four days as a hostage.  Speaking briefly¹² to reporters after his arrival in Wiesbaden this morning, he said his joy at being free was somewhat diminished by his concern for the other hostages left behind.  He thanked the US government and President Ronald Reagan for helping¹³ to secure his release.  Jacobsen also gave special thanks to Terry Waite, an envoy of the Archbishop of Canterbury, for his help in the negotiation¹⁴. Waite, who accompanied Jacobsen from Beirut to Wiesbaden today, said he might be going to Beirut in several days.  There are still seven American hostages being held in Lebanon by different political groups.  Jacobsen will be joined in Wiesbaden tomorrow by his family.  Hospital, officials said they still do not know how many days Jacobsen will remain for tests and debriefing¹⁵ sessions before returning to the United States with his family.  For National Public Radio, this is Diedre Barber, Wiesbaden.
  Section Three: Special Report      
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   The leader of Chinese revolution, Mao Tsetong, died ten years ago today. During his lifetiime, Mao became a cult¹⁶ figure, but the current government has tried to change that. Now his tomb and enbalmed body in Beijing are just another tourist attraction. And no longer do millions of Chinese study or wave aloft the famous "Little Red Book' of Quotations¹⁷ from Chairman Mao.  Along with the political writing, Mao wrote poetry as wellpoems about the revolution, the Red Army, poems about nature.  Willis Barnstone has translated some of Mao's work and considers him an original master, one of China's most important poets.   
       "Had,he not been a revolutionary, perhaps his poetry would not have been as interesting because his personal poetry was the history of China.  At the same time because he was a famous revolutionary and leader, it has prejudiced most people, almost correctly, to dismiss his poetry as simply the work of a man who achieved fame
 elsewhere.'
      'But his work was not dismissed within China though?'
      'Well, now it's almost consciously forgotten.  But when I was there in '72, you could see his poems on every dining room wall, engraved¹⁸ on peach-pits ... During lunch hours, workers would study his poems.  They were every place."
      'Is there, though, a revisionist thinking within literary circles? Are people saying Mao wasn't any good as a poet either?'
      "No.  Well, at least in my conversations in the year I recently spent in Peking teaching at the university there, I found very few people who didn't think he was a very good poet.  But they did feel that his suggestions which were that people not write in the classical style, that they write in what he called the modern style, was very repressive.  And as a result, of course, the restriction¹⁹ of publication during the ten years of the Cultural Revolution, poetry was abysmal²⁰.'
      'When you say the modern style, would that be, for example, free verse?"
      'It would be free verse as opposed to classical rhymes or classical forms."
      'You write in the introduction to one of your translations of poems of Mao Tsetong that people ... you explain that leaders in China, and indeed in the East, are expected to be accomplished²¹ poets.'
      'Yes.  I think that's true.  The night that Tojo ... before Tojo died, he, ... in Japan, he wrote some poems.  Ho Chi Minh was a poet. It was common. In fact, I think until early in the twentieth century, even to pass a bureaucratic²² exam, one had to know a huge number of classical forms.  And especially, a leader should at least be a poet.'
      'There is one poem which is political in nature which has to do with a parasitic²³ disease in China.'            
      'Yes.  Mao wrote some poems, two poems actually, about getting rid of a disease that was a plague for the country.  And it's called "Saying goodbye to the God of Disease." And the poem needs annotation²⁴.  In that sense, it"s typical of classical Chinese poetry; he makes references to earlier emperors and places.
           Saying Goodbye to the God of Disease
          Mauve waters and green mountains are nothing
          When the great ancient doctor Hua Tuo
          Could not defeat a tiny worm.
          A thousand villages collapsed²⁵, were choked with weeds,
          Men were lost arrows, ghosts sang
          In the doorway²⁶ of a few desolate²⁷ houses.
          Yet now in a day, we leap around the earth,
          Or explore a thousand milky²⁸ ways.
          And if the cowherd who lives on a star
          Asks about the God of plagues,
          Tell him,, happy or sad, "The God is gone,
          Washed away in the waters."

    A poem by Mao Tsetong read by Willis Barnstone, Professor of Comparative Literature at Indiana University in Bloomington.  He talked with us from WFIU.

 

1 envoy   

n.使节，使者，代表，公使

参考例句：

• Their envoy showed no sign of responding to our proposals.他们的代表对我方的提议毫无回应的迹象。
• The government has not yet appointed an envoy to the area.政府尚未向这一地区派过外交官。

2 physically   

adj.物质上，体格上，身体上，按自然规律

参考例句：

• He was out of sorts physically,as well as disordered mentally.他浑身不舒服，心绪也很乱。
• Every time I think about it I feel physically sick.一想起那件事我就感到极恶心。

3 captivity   

n.囚禁；被俘；束缚

参考例句：

• A zoo is a place where live animals are kept in captivity for the public to see.动物园是圈养动物以供公众观看的场所。
• He was held in captivity for three years.他被囚禁叁年。

4 democrat   

n.民主主义者，民主人士；民主党党员

参考例句：

• The Democrat and the Public criticized each other.民主党人和共和党人互相攻击。
• About two years later,he was defeated by Democrat Jimmy Carter.大约两年后，他被民主党人杰米卡特击败。

5 harry   

vt.掠夺，蹂躏，使苦恼

参考例句：

• Today,people feel more hurried and harried.今天，人们感到更加忙碌和苦恼。
• Obama harried business by Healthcare Reform plan.奥巴马用医改掠夺了商界。

6 recuperating   

v.恢复（健康、体力等），复原( recuperate的现在分词 )

参考例句：

• He's still recuperating from his operation. 他动了手术，还在恢复。
• He is recuperating from a serious back injury. 他背部受了重伤，目前正在康复中。 来自辞典例句

7 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。

8 precisely   

adv.恰好，正好，精确地，细致地

参考例句：

• It's precisely that sort of slick sales-talk that I mistrust.我不相信的正是那种油腔滑调的推销宣传。
• The man adjusted very precisely.那个人调得很准。

9 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。

10 evaluation   

n.估价，评价；赋值

参考例句：

• I attempted an honest evaluation of my own life.我试图如实地评价我自己的一生。
• The new scheme is still under evaluation.新方案还在评估阶段。

11 detailed   

adj.详细的，详尽的，极注意细节的，完全的

参考例句：

• He had made a detailed study of the terrain.他对地形作了缜密的研究。
• A detailed list of our publications is available on request.我们的出版物有一份详细的目录备索。

12 briefly   

adv.简单地，简短地

参考例句：

• I want to touch briefly on another aspect of the problem.我想简单地谈一下这个问题的另一方面。
• He was kidnapped and briefly detained by a terrorist group.他被一个恐怖组织绑架并短暂拘禁。

13 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。

14 negotiation   

n.谈判，协商

参考例句：

• They closed the deal in sugar after a week of negotiation.经过一星期的谈判，他们的食糖生意成交了。
• The negotiation dragged on until July.谈判一直拖到7月份。

15 debriefing   

n.任务报告，任务报告中提出的情报v.向（外交人员等）询问执行任务的情况( debrief的现在分词 )

参考例句：

• We've got the rescued soldiers in there for debriefing. 我们把被救的士兵带到了这里做一个报告。 来自电影对白
• Attention, all fighters are to return to moon base for debriefing. 注意，所有战斗机返回月球基地做任务报告。 来自互联网

16 cult   

n.异教，邪教；时尚，狂热的崇拜

参考例句：

• Her books aren't bestsellers,but they have a certain cult following.她的书算不上畅销书，但有一定的崇拜者。
• The cult of sun worship is probably the most primitive one.太阳崇拜仪式或许是最为原始的一种。

17 quotations   

n.引用( quotation的名词复数 )；[商业]行情（报告）；（货物或股票的）市价；时价

参考例句：

• The insurance company requires three quotations for repairs to the car. 保险公司要修理这辆汽车的三家修理厂的报价单。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• These quotations cannot readily be traced to their sources. 这些引语很难查出出自何处。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》

18 engraved   

v.在（硬物）上雕刻（字，画等）( engrave的过去式和过去分词 )；将某事物深深印在（记忆或头脑中）

参考例句：

• The silver cup was engraved with his name. 银杯上刻有他的名字。
• It was prettily engraved with flowers on the back. 此件雕刻精美，背面有花饰图案。 来自《简明英汉词典》

19 restriction   

n.限制，约束

参考例句：

• The park is open to the public without restriction.这个公园对公众开放，没有任何限制。
• The 30 mph speed restriction applies in all built-up areas.每小时限速30英里适用于所有建筑物聚集区。

20 abysmal   

adj.无底的，深不可测的，极深的；糟透的，极坏的；完全的

参考例句：

• The film was so abysmal that I fell asleep.电影太糟糕，看得我睡着了。
• There is a historic explanation for the abysmal state of Chinese cuisine in the United States.中餐在美国的糟糕状态可以从历史上找原因。

21 accomplished   

adj.有才艺的；有造诣的；达到了的

参考例句：

• Thanks to your help,we accomplished the task ahead of schedule.亏得你们帮忙,我们才提前完成了任务。
• Removal of excess heat is accomplished by means of a radiator.通过散热器完成多余热量的排出。

22 bureaucratic   

adj.官僚的，繁文缛节的

参考例句：

• The sweat of labour washed away his bureaucratic airs.劳动的汗水冲掉了他身上的官气。
• In this company you have to go through complex bureaucratic procedures just to get a new pencil.在这个公司里即使是领一支新铅笔，也必须通过繁琐的手续。

23 parasitic   

adj.寄生的

参考例句：

• Will global warming mean the spread of tropical parasitic diseases?全球变暖是否意味着热带寄生虫病会蔓延呢？
• By definition,this way of life is parasitic.从其含义来说，这是种寄生虫的生活方式。

24 annotation   

n.注解

参考例句：

• She retained a number of copies for further annotation.她保留了许多副本以便作进一步的注解。
• He supplied annotations to nearly 15,000 musical works.他给近1.5万部音乐作品作过注解。

25 collapsed   

adj.倒塌的

参考例句：

• Jack collapsed in agony on the floor. 杰克十分痛苦地瘫倒在地板上。
• The roof collapsed under the weight of snow. 房顶在雪的重压下突然坍塌下来。

26 doorway   

n.门口，(喻)入门；门路，途径

参考例句：

• They huddled in the shop doorway to shelter from the rain.他们挤在商店门口躲雨。
• Mary suddenly appeared in the doorway.玛丽突然出现在门口。

27 desolate   

adj.荒凉的，荒芜的；孤独的，凄凉的；v.使荒芜，使孤寂

参考例句：

• The city was burned into a desolate waste.那座城市被烧成一片废墟。
• We all felt absolutely desolate when she left.她走后，我们都觉得万分孤寂。

28 milky   

adj.牛奶的，多奶的；乳白色的

参考例句：

• Alexander always has milky coffee at lunchtime.亚历山大总是在午餐时喝掺奶的咖啡。
• I like a hot milky drink at bedtime.我喜欢睡前喝杯热奶饮料。