访谈录[Interview]2007-10-14:诺贝尔和平奖会为戈尔带来什么

''...challenge we've ever faced.''

Al Gore¹’s Nobel Peace Prize puts him in the company of such human rights activists² as Iranian Shirin Ebadi , and more controversial winners like Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. In 1973, Henry Kissinger won, along with North Vietnamese leader Le Duc Tho who turned down the prize, saying his country was not at peace. But is the prize principally about peace or is the Committee also making a political statement? The answer—politics play a big role.

In 2002 when former President Carter won, the Nobel Committee chairman said the award should be interpreted as a criticism of the line that the current U.S. administration has taken in international politics. In selecting Gore and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change the Committee said it wants to increase focus on efforts to protect. ''the world’s future climate, and thereby³ to reduce the threat to the security of mankind. ''

Many environment experts do see these efforts as critical for peace. And the committee has recognized that climate change, if unchecked, would be a cause of conflict in the future. The British newspaper The Guardian⁴ says drought helps spark the conflict in Sudan, making it likely the first climate change war. Still there are plenty of peace activists worldwide. Who was Gore’s competition? And how does the Committee decide? They don’t want us to know. ''And again, Thanks the Nobel Committee.''

You have to be invited to nominate someone, and the 5-member panel appointed by the Norwegian Parliament keeps its work top secret, including, the Committee says, investigations⁵ and opinions related to the award of the prize.

Now with all this as a huge honor, the Nobels don’t necessarily add a lot of fuel to the efforts that they are highlighting. One good example, in 1991, Burmese opposition⁶ leader Aung San Suu Kyi won, but she spent most of the following years in detention⁷ in her country. And to this day, in Myanmar people are fighting for basic rights and freedoms. Josh Levs, CNN Atlanta.

1 gore   

n.凝血，血污；v.（动物）用角撞伤，用牙刺破；缝以补裆；顶

参考例句：

• The fox lay dying in a pool of gore.狐狸倒在血泊中奄奄一息。
• Carruthers had been gored by a rhinoceros.卡拉瑟斯被犀牛顶伤了。

2 activists   

n.（政治活动的）积极分子，活动家( activist的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• His research work was attacked by animal rights activists . 他的研究受到了动物权益维护者的抨击。
• Party activists with lower middle class pedigrees are numerous. 党的激进分子中有很多出身于中产阶级下层。 来自《简明英汉词典》

3 thereby   

adv.因此，从而

参考例句：

• I have never been to that city,,ereby I don't know much about it.我从未去过那座城市，因此对它不怎么熟悉。
• He became a British citizen,thereby gaining the right to vote.他成了英国公民，因而得到了投票权。

4 guardian   

n.监护人；守卫者，保护者

参考例句：

• The form must be signed by the child's parents or guardian. 这张表格须由孩子的家长或监护人签字。
• The press is a guardian of the public weal. 报刊是公共福利的卫护者。

5 investigations   

（正式的）调查( investigation的名词复数 )； 侦查； 科学研究； 学术研究

参考例句：

• His investigations were intensive and thorough but revealed nothing. 他进行了深入彻底的调查，但没有发现什么。
• He often sent them out to make investigations. 他常常派他们出去作调查。

6 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。

7 detention   

n.滞留，停留；拘留，扣留；(教育)留下

参考例句：

• He was kept in detention by the police.他被警察扣留了。
• He was in detention in connection with the bribery affair.他因与贿赂事件有牵连而被拘留了。