英语听力：切格瓦拉的故事 - 8

 He was pretty rough, he was not known for his delicacy¹.

 

Along with his doctor’s duties, Che proves himself repeatedly on the battlefield. It’s been said in more hands-on fashion than Fidel.

 

Che was a true model in front of us. While Fidel looks for a place of refuge to hide himself, Che was bare-chested. He always rushes to the frontlines during battles.

 

His willingness to confront deaths, to take life, to risk his own life came together to form a charisma² that was highly unusual, and which gave him an enormous legendary³ reputation. And he emerged as a man, which others feared and also respected and admired.

 

Seeing how well Che conducts himself in battle, Fidel promotes him to commandant on July 12, 1957, and gives him his first military command of 75 men known as column number 4.

 

The vanity which we all have in us made me the proudest man in the world that day.

 

There were those who fell under his leadership and charisma. Particularly very young boys, you have to call them 15, 16 year olds. Some of them were runaways⁴ who became his disciples⁵, and they became known as xx he, Che’s cubs⁶. He was everything to them, an older brother, a father, a guerrilla leader, and an instructor⁷, a very much the ideal log. He gave them literacy lessons. He wanted them to read and write.

 

Others do their best not to attract his attention.

 

He could punish someone for 3 to 6 days without food for something minor⁸. This character and furious discipline of his makes me believe that it was fear that we had of him. We feared that he would impose upon us a punishment.

 

By October Che has a new base in X. With this freedom Che starts to organize the area, starting an armory⁹, bakery, butcher shop, and even a newspaper called xx. By February 1958 they were broadcasting messages on their own radio station, Radio rebel day. Not all the guerrillas know they are fighting a communist revolution.

 

If Fidel has told us that it was a communist movement all of the recruits would have abandoned him for sure.

 

There were a lot of concerns about Castro’s power, rhetoric¹⁰, and who he is was a bit of a mystery at that time. The CIA US military continue to give Batista weapons.

 

The Sierra Maestra swarms¹¹ with Batista’s troops, yet the rebels maintained the upper hand having gained an enormous support from the local population.

 

Batista’s army was on the ropes, and it was to Che that Fidel looked to take the war to the north.

 

After 18 months in the Sierra it’s time to expand the war to the other parts of Cuba. Che Guevara and his column marched 370 miles to X province, strategically position in Santa Clara, Cuba’s fourth largest city just four hours from Havana.

 

In late 1958 that he met A. She was a supporter of the X movement.

 

A had smuggled¹² weapons, and messages from the city to Che’s camp. But on such a mission her cover is blown.

 

She ended up staying in the mountains and joining Che, and in the course of the coming weeks as they left X to do battle against Batista’s army in the towns around Santa Clara they became lovers.

 

Meanwhile the guerrilla war intensifies¹³.

1 delicacy   

n.精致，细微，微妙，精良；美味，佳肴

参考例句：

• We admired the delicacy of the craftsmanship.我们佩服工艺师精巧的手艺。
• He sensed the delicacy of the situation.他感觉到了形势的微妙。

2 charisma   

n.(大众爱戴的)领袖气质，魅力

参考例句：

• He has enormous charisma. He is a giant of a man.他有超凡的个人魅力，是个伟人。
• I don't have the charisma to pull a crowd this size.我没有那么大的魅力，能吸引这么多人。

3 legendary   

adj.传奇（中）的，闻名遐迩的；n.传奇（文学）

参考例句：

• Legendary stories are passed down from parents to children.传奇故事是由父母传给孩子们的。
• Odysseus was a legendary Greek hero.奥狄修斯是传说中的希腊英雄。

4 runaways   

（轻而易举的）胜利( runaway的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• They failed to find any trace of the runaways. 他们未能找到逃跑者的任何踪迹。
• Unmanageable complexity can result in massive foul-ups or spectacular budget "runaways. " 这种失控的复杂性会造成大量的故障或惊人的预算“失控”。

5 disciples   

n.信徒( disciple的名词复数 )；门徒；耶稣的信徒；（尤指）耶稣十二门徒之一

参考例句：

• Judas was one of the twelve disciples of Jesus. 犹大是耶稣十二门徒之一。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• "The names of the first two disciples were --" “最初的两个门徒的名字是——” 来自英汉文学 - 汤姆历险

6 cubs   

n.幼小的兽，不懂规矩的年轻人( cub的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• a lioness guarding her cubs 守护幼崽的母狮
• Lion cubs depend on their mother to feed them. 狮子的幼仔依靠母狮喂养。 来自《简明英汉词典》

7 instructor   

n.指导者，教员，教练

参考例句：

• The college jumped him from instructor to full professor.大学突然把他从讲师提升为正教授。
• The skiing instructor was a tall,sunburnt man.滑雪教练是一个高高个子晒得黑黑的男子。

8 minor   

adj.较小(少)的，较次要的；n.辅修学科；vi.辅修

参考例句：

• The young actor was given a minor part in the new play.年轻的男演员在这出新戏里被分派担任一个小角色。
• I gave him a minor share of my wealth.我把小部分财产给了他。

9 armory   

n.纹章，兵工厂，军械库

参考例句：

• Nuclear weapons will play a less prominent part in NATO's armory in the future.核武器将来在北约的军械中会起较次要的作用。
• Every March the Armory Show sets up shop in New York.每年三月，军械博览会都会在纽约设置展场。

10 rhetoric   

n.修辞学，浮夸之言语

参考例句：

• Do you know something about rhetoric?你懂点修辞学吗？
• Behind all the rhetoric,his relations with the army are dangerously poised.在冠冕堂皇的言辞背后，他和军队的关系岌岌可危。

11 swarms   

蜂群，一大群( swarm的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• They came to town in swarms. 他们蜂拥来到城里。
• On June the first there were swarms of children playing in the park. 6月1日那一天，这个公园里有一群群的孩子玩耍。

12 smuggled   

水货

参考例句：

• The customs officer confiscated the smuggled goods. 海关官员没收了走私品。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
• Those smuggled goods have been detained by the port office. 那些走私货物被港务局扣押了。 来自互联网

13 intensifies   

n.（使）增强， （使）加剧( intensify的名词复数 )v.（使）增强， （使）加剧( intensify的第三人称单数 )

参考例句：

• A clear atmosphere intensifies the blue of the sky. 纯净的空气使天空变得更蓝。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Blowing on fire intensifies the heat. 吹火使热度加强。 来自《简明英汉词典》