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英语听力—环球英语 1000 Women Speaking Truth

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   Voice 1

 
  Welcome to Spotlight1. I’m Robin2 Basselin.
 
  Voice 2
 
  And I’m Liz Waid. Spotlight uses a special English method of broadcasting. It is easier for people to understand, no matter where in the world they live.
 
  Voice 1
 
  A woman sits in a court room. Her heart beats very fast. She is worried. Court officials ask her many questions. The questions are about something bad that happened to her. It is very hard for her to talk about this experience. But the woman tells her story. She was raped4.  And the man who forced her to have sex was a soldier.
 
  Voice 2
 
  After the trial, the woman talked with the PBS news organization. She said:
 
  Voice 3
 
  “I was not feeling shame. I was really proud and full of strength. I looked him in the eye. Why is he not the one who is feeling shame? I wanted to prove that I had survived. I wanted to tell what had happened.”
 
  Voice 1
 
  This woman is called Witness 99. She is a Muslim who survived the Bosnian War. She is one of 16 women who spoke5 to the Yugoslav War Crimes Tribunal. Today’s Spotlight is about the women from this tribunal.
 
  Voice 2
 
  In 1991, the country of Yugoslavia had recently split6 into several smaller countries. There was fighting in a lot of these smaller countries, especially in the area called Bosnia. During this fighting, women were held in prison camps.
 
  Voice 1
 
  One of these camps for women was in Foca. Foca is a small town in Bosnia. The soldiers made the women stay in a prison near the middle of the town. One woman told PBS how her time in the prison began,
 
  Voice 4
 
  “They said we should get ready. There was a truck waiting in front of the school. They did not tell us where we were going and we did not ask. We could not say anything.”
 
  Voice 1
 
  Another woman told about how they were treated in the prison,
 
  Voice 5
 
  “They would come in and call us names.  They would tell us that we Muslims were getting what we deserved.”
 
  Voice 2
 
  Soldiers raped many of the women in these camps. Rape3 was used as a weapon of war.
 
  Voice 1
 
  After the Bosnian war, women from the prison camps were asked to speak to the Yugoslav War Crimes Tribunal. The tribunal was at The Hague in the Netherlands.  Sometimes it is difficult for national courts to bring justice for war crimes. So, an international legal trial or tribunal is used. And the United Nations enforces the law and decisions of the tribunal.
 
  Voice 2
 
  The legal advisors8 and judges in the Yugoslav tribunal came from countries all over the world. People from the United States, Germany, Nepal, and Great Britain all came to help.
 
  Voice 1
 
  The Yugoslav tribunal was the first international war tribunal since World War II. The tribunal after World War II was called Nuremberg. It was to punish Nazis9 for the crimes of the Holocaust10. But almost no women were at the Nuremberg trial. Peggy Kuo, a legal advisor7 or lawyer from the United States, told PBS:
 
  Voice 6
 
  “If you look at the pictures of Nuremberg, it is almost all men... In that environment, women are not given a chance to be a part of the process - not even as a witness, in many cases.”
 
  Voice 1
 
  But the Yugoslav tribunal was different. Women were at the center of it. The trial started with three men who were head of the women’s prison camp in Foca, Bosnia. The tribunal charged the men with rape as a war crime. And the women had to speak about what happened.
 
  Voice 2
 
  Wendy Lobwein is an Australian lawyer. She talked to the International Criminal Court about the women at the tribunal. She said:
 
  Voice 7
 
  “Witnesses come for four main reasons. They come to speak for the dead. Or they come to look for justice now. Or they want the world to know the truth. Or they hope that such crime can be prevented in the future.”
 
  Voice 1
 
  Encouraging the women to speak was not easy. For many of the women, speaking at the tribunal was very hard. It meant sitting in the same room with the men who raped them. It meant that the world knew all about their lives. It meant that they had to answer a lot of questions about private things. The tribunal was very public. People all around the world knew about it and were watching.
 
  Voice 2
 
  People also threatened the women. These people did not think the women should speak. They did not believe the women. They thought the women should not try to punish the men. So, the women were afraid of what might happen to them if they did speak.
 
  Voice 1
 
  The people at the tribunal did everything they could to protect the women. The tribunal did not release their names.  They called them by a number instead of their name. When the trial was talked about on the news, the women were called by their numbers. No pictures of the women were released. Even their voices were changed. Only the people in the court could see the witnesses. Refir Hodzic is a writer who reported on the trial. He talked with PBS about the women’s stories:
 
  Voice 8
 
  “It was about the truth. It was about all of us knowing what happened. But the women paid the price. Let us not forget this. This truth was not said in a private doctor’s office, where they could know that no one else would know. It was said in a public place. We can try to believe that their identities were protected... But in their communities, everyone knew who spoke. It was a pure act of heroism11, especially because no one could know what would happen in the end.”
 
  Voice 2
 
  At the end of the trial, the men charged with these war crimes were found guilty. They were sentenced to many years in prison.
 
  Voice 1
 
  The tribunal brought justice for the war crimes.  But it also had another effect. The women who spoke at the Yugoslav tribunal changed the lives of women everywhere. They talked and the world listened. And their stories are helping12 other women around the world share their similar stories of struggle. Witness 99 told PBS:
 
  Voice 3
 
  “I was happy to be able to say what had happened to me.  I was happy to say who had done this to me and my people. I feel like I did my duty. I had come to look him in the face. I came to speak.”
 
  Voice 2
 
  The writer of this program was Dianna Anderson. The producer was Mark Drenth. The voices you heard were from the United States and the United Kingdom. All quotes were adapted and voiced by Spotlight. You can find our programs on the internet at http://www.radioenglish.net This .program is called “Women Speaking Truth.”
 
  Voice 1
 
  We hope you can join us for our next Spotlight Program. Goodbye.

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1 spotlight 6hBzmk     
n.公众注意的中心,聚光灯,探照灯,视听,注意,醒目
参考例句:
  • This week the spotlight is on the world of fashion.本周引人瞩目的是时装界。
  • The spotlight followed her round the stage.聚光灯的光圈随着她在舞台上转。
2 robin Oj7zme     
n.知更鸟,红襟鸟
参考例句:
  • The robin is the messenger of spring.知更鸟是报春的使者。
  • We knew spring was coming as we had seen a robin.我们看见了一只知更鸟,知道春天要到了。
3 rape PAQzh     
n.抢夺,掠夺,强奸;vt.掠夺,抢夺,强奸
参考例句:
  • The rape of the countryside had a profound ravage on them.对乡村的掠夺给他们造成严重创伤。
  • He was brought to court and charged with rape.他被带到法庭并被指控犯有强奸罪。
4 raped 7a6e3e7dd30eb1e3b61716af0e54d4a2     
v.以暴力夺取,强夺( rape的过去式和过去分词 );强奸
参考例句:
  • A young woman was brutally raped in her own home. 一名年轻女子在自己家中惨遭强暴。 来自辞典例句
  • We got stick together, or we will be having our women raped. 我们得团结一致,不然我们的妻女就会遭到蹂躏。 来自辞典例句
5 spoke XryyC     
n.(车轮的)辐条;轮辐;破坏某人的计划;阻挠某人的行动 v.讲,谈(speak的过去式);说;演说;从某种观点来说
参考例句:
  • They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
  • The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。
6 split avXwG     
n.劈开,裂片,裂口;adj.分散的;v.分离,分开,劈开
参考例句:
  • Who told you that Mary and I had split up?谁告诉你玛丽和我已经离婚了?
  • The teacher split the class up into six groups.老师把班级分成6个小组。
7 advisor JKByk     
n.顾问,指导老师,劝告者
参考例句:
  • They employed me as an advisor.他们聘请我当顾问。
  • The professor is engaged as a technical advisor.这位教授被聘请为技术顾问。
8 advisors 9c02a9c1778f1533c47ade215559070d     
n.顾问,劝告者( advisor的名词复数 );(指导大学新生学科问题等的)指导教授
参考例句:
  • The governors felt that they were being strung along by their advisors. 地方长官感到他们一直在受顾问们的愚弄。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
  • We will consult together with advisors about her education. 我们将一起和专家商议她的教育事宜。 来自互联网
9 Nazis 39168f65c976085afe9099ea0411e9a5     
n.(德国的)纳粹党员( Nazi的名词复数 );纳粹主义
参考例句:
  • The Nazis worked them over with gun butts. 纳粹分子用枪托毒打他们。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • The Nazis were responsible for the mass murder of Jews during World War Ⅱ. 纳粹必须为第二次世界大战中对犹太人的大屠杀负责。 来自《简明英汉词典》
10 holocaust dd5zE     
n.大破坏;大屠杀
参考例句:
  • The Auschwitz concentration camp always remind the world of the holocaust.奥辛威茨集中营总是让世人想起大屠杀。
  • Ahmadinejad is denying the holocaust because he's as brutal as Hitler was.内贾德否认大屠杀,因为他像希特勒一样残忍。
11 heroism 5dyx0     
n.大无畏精神,英勇
参考例句:
  • He received a medal for his heroism.他由于英勇而获得一枚奖章。
  • Stories of his heroism resounded through the country.他的英雄故事传遍全国。
12 helping 2rGzDc     
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。
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