英语听力：切格瓦拉的故事 - 3

 "And this wandering around our 'America with a capital A' has changed me more than I thought."

When he finished medical school, he said, “See, you thought I couldn’t do it, but I graduated. So pack your bags, because we're gonna be leaving soon.”

 

Ernesto and Calica head for Bolivia, along the way they meet other young travelers. They were students, they had invited us to see Guatemala. Ernesto is intrigued¹ by the students’ political fervor² and the situation in Guatemala, where President Jacobo Arbenz is attempting to bring about a social revolution to a land reform. Arbenz was intent on nationalizing the unused land of the major U.S banana and fruit companies, particularly United Fruit. And of course United Fruit was a company that had very close ties to the Eisenhower and his Administration.

 

The Secretary of State John Foster Dulles has been on the board of United Fruit, John Foster Dulles was a brother of Allen Dulles, the director of the CIA. United Fruit paid a very skilled public relation specialist to kind of whip up a frenzy³ about the threat of communism in this small impoverished⁴ country -- Guatemala

 

December 24th, 1953, it is amid this charged atmosphere that Ernesto first arrives in Guatemala.

Soon he is introduced to a Peruvian woman named Hilda Gadea. Hilda immediately became besotted with him. She even went to the point, where she pawns⁵ some Jewelry⁶ in order to keep him in his hostels⁷, and eventually they began sleeping together. Hilda introduces Ernesto to followers⁸ of a 26-year-old Cuban lawyer named Fidel Castro. He had led an attack on the Moncada Military Barracks, the 2nd largest military garrison⁹ in Cuba. In an audacious attempt to overthrow¹⁰ Cuba's President--General Fulgencio Batista.

 

Many of the people who attacked the barracks, a lot are homeless students. Workers' organizers, a lot of them are killed, tortured, killed. The ones who survived including Fidel Castro and his brother were sentenced to prison. Castro was serving a 15 years sentence. But Ernesto was deeply impressed with this man. Unlike his Cuban friends, Ernesto was not committed to any cause of ideology¹¹. But the ouster of Guatemala President Arbenz changes his view.

 

The first CIA sponsored coup¹² in Latin America took place in Guatemala in 1954, and essentially¹³ the army got scared and told Arbanz that he had to resign, and he did.

 

Castio Amas seized his place in power on June 27th, 1954. He seen by many as an American puppet. He begins arresting suspected communists, and anyone connected to the old regime. Threatened with jail and possibly execution, Ernesto takes refuge at the Argentine Embassy. He came away convinced that the United States was --as he famously later called it-- the enemy of humanity.

 

"Jacobo Arbenz Guzmán succumb¹⁴ before the cold premeditated aggression¹⁵ of the U.S.A, hidden behind the smoke screen of continental¹⁶ propaganda." Ernesto now considers himself a Marxist. Communism seemed to offer a way forward and a ready-made  ideology for the kind of new society that can arise from the ashes of the old.

 

Ernesto Guevara, he left Guatemala a very radicalized individual, looking now for a revolution he could fight in.

September, 1954, like many other leftists, Ernesto heads for Mexico City, where former President Cardenez had successfully nationalized his oil fields in the 1930s.

1 intrigued   

adj.好奇的，被迷住了的v.搞阴谋诡计(intrigue的过去式)；激起…的兴趣或好奇心；“intrigue”的过去式和过去分词

参考例句：

• You've really intrigued me—tell me more! 你说的真有意思—再给我讲一些吧！
• He was intrigued by her story. 他被她的故事迷住了。

2 fervor   

n.热诚；热心；炽热

参考例句：

• They were concerned only with their own religious fervor.他们只关心自己的宗教热诚。
• The speech aroused nationalist fervor.这个演讲喚起了民族主义热情。

3 frenzy   

n.疯狂，狂热，极度的激动

参考例句：

• He was able to work the young students up into a frenzy.他能激起青年学生的狂热。
• They were singing in a frenzy of joy.他们欣喜若狂地高声歌唱。

4 impoverished   

adj.穷困的，无力的，用尽了的v.使（某人）贫穷( impoverish的过去式和过去分词 )；使（某物）贫瘠或恶化

参考例句：

• the impoverished areas of the city 这个城市的贫民区
• They were impoverished by a prolonged spell of unemployment. 他们因长期失业而一贫如洗。 来自《简明英汉词典》

5 pawns   

n.（国际象棋中的）兵( pawn的名词复数 )；卒；被人利用的人；小卒v.典当，抵押( pawn的第三人称单数 )；以（某事物）担保

参考例句：

• The hostages are being used as political pawns. 人质正被用作政治卒子。
• The allies would fear that they were pawns in a superpower condominium. 这个联盟担心他们会成为超级大国共管的牺牲品。 来自《简明英汉词典》

6 jewelry   

n.（jewllery）（总称）珠宝

参考例句：

• The burglars walked off with all my jewelry.夜盗偷走了我的全部珠宝。
• Jewelry and lace are mostly feminine belongings.珠宝和花边多数是女性用品。

7 hostels   

n.旅舍，招待所( hostel的名词复数 )；青年宿舍

参考例句：

• The students were protesting at overcrowding in the university hostels. 学生们在抗议大学宿舍过于拥挤。 来自辞典例句
• Are there any cheap hostels in Nanjing for one person? 南京有没有便宜的旅店可以一个人住？ 来自互联网

8 followers   

追随者( follower的名词复数 )； 用户； 契据的附面； 从动件

参考例句：

• the followers of Mahatma Gandhi 圣雄甘地的拥护者
• The reformer soon gathered a band of followers round him. 改革者很快就获得一群追随者支持他。

9 garrison   

n.卫戍部队；驻地，卫戍区；vt.派(兵)驻防

参考例句：

• The troops came to the relief of the besieged garrison.军队来援救被围的守备军。
• The German was moving to stiffen up the garrison in Sicily.德军正在加强西西里守军之力量。

10 overthrow   

v.推翻，打倒，颠覆；n.推翻，瓦解，颠覆

参考例句：

• After the overthrow of the government,the country was in chaos.政府被推翻后，这个国家处于混乱中。
• The overthrow of his plans left him much discouraged.他的计划的失败使得他很气馁。

11 ideology   

n.意识形态，(政治或社会的)思想意识

参考例句：

• The ideology has great influence in the world.这种思想体系在世界上有很大的影响。
• The ideal is to strike a medium between ideology and inspiration.我的理想是在意识思想和灵感鼓动之间找到一个折衷。

12 coup   

n.政变；突然而成功的行动

参考例句：

• The monarch was ousted by a military coup.那君主被军事政变者废黜了。
• That government was overthrown in a military coup three years ago.那个政府在3年前的军事政变中被推翻。

13 essentially   

adv.本质上，实质上，基本上

参考例句：

• Really great men are essentially modest.真正的伟人大都很谦虚。
• She is an essentially selfish person.她本质上是个自私自利的人。

14 succumb   

v.屈服，屈从；死

参考例句：

• They will never succumb to the enemies.他们决不向敌人屈服。
• Will business leaders succumb to these ideas?商业领袖们会被这些观点折服吗？

15 aggression   

n.进攻，侵略，侵犯，侵害

参考例句：

• So long as we are firmly united, we need fear no aggression.只要我们紧密地团结，就不必惧怕外来侵略。
• Her view is that aggression is part of human nature.她认为攻击性是人类本性的一部份。

16 continental   

adj.大陆的，大陆性的，欧洲大陆的

参考例句：

• A continental climate is different from an insular one.大陆性气候不同于岛屿气候。
• The most ancient parts of the continental crust are 4000 million years old.大陆地壳最古老的部分有40亿年历史。