英语听力：切格瓦拉的故事 - 12

 The Soviets² agree to buy what the Americans want.

 

They needed weapons, so Soviet¹ Union started to sell their old Soviet tanks and some fighters, airplanes.

 

The Soviets also supplied them with oil, which US-owned refineries³ in Cuba refused to process.

 

Che had a public face and a clandestine⁴ existence, which was understood and encouraged by Fidel

 

And rewarded by him, Che is given an important new role in the Cuban government, as head of the industrialization department, and is appointed president of Cuba's national bank.

 

He showed his disdain⁵ for the mercantile world and money, by merely signing the Cuban bank bills, Che

 

To me it's an insult to the Cuban people, when he signed the first currency, like, and he signed, Che Guevara. That was an insult.

 

The capitalist structure of Cuba is coming to an end

 

Castro, he decreased the standard of living, so instead of making richer, everybody, he made poorer, everybody

 

Fidel Castro signs an agrarian⁶ reform bill, and on May 7th 1959, the first seizures⁷ of large agricultural landholdings are made.

 

The people, they start to see the reality, what’s coming on, and very soon the Cubans, they start the exiles to Miami

 

As thousands flee Cuba, Che takes on an even more radical⁸ plan

 

The favorite argument of Che’s, was that, in order for Cuba to become truly politically sovereign, it had to become economically independent of the US, and the only way to do that, was to sever⁹ all economic links with the US

 

The US has billions of dollars invested in Cuba; everything was owned by the US, the electricity company, the ports, the mines, the twice daily, airline shuttle to Miami, the television stations.

 

With America’s refusal to refine Cuba's oil, Fidel Castro responds by nationalizing all foreign oil companies, in retaliation¹⁰, the US breaks all diplomatic relations.

 

Less than 10 months later, all US-owned companies are seized, Washington fights back, and announces a trade embargo¹¹ on all exports to Cuba. As tensions rise with the US, in Cuba, any opposition¹² to the regime is viewed as counter-revolutionary, and a crime, even the practice of religion’s frowned upon. Several dozen Catholic priests are expelled from the island

 

Over a Bible, they promised to fight until we had Cuba free, or until death, and mainly the founders¹³ of our organization, my organization, they died in front of the firing squad¹⁴

 

The killers¹⁵ were terrible, everywhere

 

I didn't want to live under a regime like that, and my wife didn't want too

 

As thousands flee Cuba, the stage for confrontation¹⁶ with the US is set. Fidel Castro's revolutionary government can no longer be tolerated

 

Frankly, he is uncontrollable and that was the key, we can not control him, you see a clear CIA memorandum saying, ''Fidel Castro has to be eliminated, and Cuban revolution has to be rolled back, and we need to go forward a plan to overthrow the Castro government''

 

As Che Guevara's vision for a socialist Cuba becomes a reality, President Eisenhower meets behind closed-doors, the time for action has come, a secret war is about to begin

1 Soviet   

adj.苏联的，苏维埃的；n.苏维埃

参考例句：

• Zhukov was a marshal of the former Soviet Union.朱可夫是前苏联的一位元帅。
• Germany began to attack the Soviet Union in 1941.德国在1941年开始进攻苏联。

2 soviets   

苏维埃（Soviet的复数形式）

参考例句：

• A public challenge could provoke the Soviets to dig in. 公开挑战会促使苏联人一意孤行。
• The Soviets proposed the withdrawal of American ballistic-missile submarines from forward bases. 苏联人建议把美国的弹道导弹潜艇从前沿基地撤走。

3 refineries   

精炼厂( refinery的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The efforts on closedown and suspension of small sugar refineries, small saccharin refineries and small paper mills are also being carried out in steps. 关停小糖厂、小糖精厂、小造纸厂的工作也已逐步展开。
• Hence the sitting of refineries is at a distance from population centres. 所以，炼油厂的厂址总在远离人口集中的地方。

4 clandestine   

adj.秘密的，暗中从事的

参考例句：

• She is the director of clandestine operations of the CIA.她是中央情报局秘密行动的负责人。
• The early Christians held clandestine meetings in caves.早期的基督徒在洞穴中秘密聚会。

5 disdain   

n.鄙视，轻视；v.轻视，鄙视，不屑

参考例句：

• Some people disdain labour.有些人轻视劳动。
• A great man should disdain flatterers.伟大的人物应鄙视献媚者。

6 agrarian   

adj.土地的，农村的，农业的

参考例句：

• People are leaving an agrarian way of life to go to the city.人们正在放弃农业生活方式而转向城市。
• This was a feature of agrarian development in Britain.这是大不列颠土地所有制发展的一个特征。

7 seizures   

n.起获( seizure的名词复数 )；没收；充公；起获的赃物

参考例句：

• Seizures of illicit drugs have increased by 30% this year. 今年违禁药品的扣押增长了30%。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Other causes of unconsciousness predisposing to aspiration lung abscess are convulsive seizures. 造成吸入性肺脓肿昏迷的其他原因，有惊厥发作。 来自辞典例句

8 radical   

n.激进份子，原子团，根号；adj.根本的，激进的，彻底的

参考例句：

• The patient got a radical cure in the hospital.病人在医院得到了根治。
• She is radical in her demands.她的要求十分偏激。

9 sever   

v.切开，割开；断绝，中断

参考例句：

• She wanted to sever all her connections with the firm.她想断绝和那家公司的所有联系。
• We must never sever the cultural vein of our nation.我们不能割断民族的文化血脉。

10 retaliation   

n.报复，反击

参考例句：

• retaliation against UN workers 对联合国工作人员的报复
• He never said a single word in retaliation. 他从未说过一句反击的话。 来自《简明英汉词典》

11 embargo   

n.禁运（令）；vt.对...实行禁运，禁止（通商）

参考例句：

• This country put an oil embargo on an enemy country.该国对敌国实行石油禁运。
• During the war,they laid an embargo on commerce with enemy countries.在战争期间，他们禁止与敌国通商。

12 opposition   

n.反对，敌对

参考例句：

• The party leader is facing opposition in his own backyard.该党领袖在自己的党內遇到了反对。
• The police tried to break down the prisoner's opposition.警察设法制住了那个囚犯的反抗。

13 founders   

n.创始人( founder的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• He was one of the founders of the university's medical faculty. 他是该大学医学院的创建人之一。 来自辞典例句
• The founders of our religion made this a cornerstone of morality. 我们宗教的创始人把这看作是道德的基石。 来自辞典例句

14 squad   

n.班，小队，小团体；vt.把…编成班或小组

参考例句：

• The squad leader ordered the men to mark time.班长命令战士们原地踏步。
• A squad is the smallest unit in an army.班是军队的最小构成单位。

15 killers   

凶手( killer的名词复数 )； 消灭…者； 致命物； 极难的事

参考例句：

• He remained steadfast in his determination to bring the killers to justice. 他要将杀人凶手绳之以法的决心一直没有动摇。
• They were professional killers who did in John. 杀死约翰的这些人是职业杀手。

16 confrontation   

n.对抗，对峙，冲突

参考例句：

• We can't risk another confrontation with the union.我们不能冒再次同工会对抗的危险。
• After years of confrontation,they finally have achieved a modus vivendi.在对抗很长时间后，他们最后达成安宁生存的非正式协议。