英语听力：切格瓦拉的故事 - 2

 In Alta Gracia, Ernesto meets Calica Ferre.

 

The boys and girls would gather around to dance, but Ernesto was a really bad dancer. He had a bad ear. We'd be playing one style of music and he'd be dancing to another. 

 

The adolescent Ernesto was known for being hypersexual. His first experience was with the family maid. He would try to seduce¹ any woman of any shape, age or appearance. 

 

One of Ernesto’s more unusual traits is his lack of hygiene² which earns him the nickname “Chancho” meaning “pig” in Spanish. He had a shirt called the weekly shirt because he would only change it once a week. We called him “Chancho” and it stuck with him eversince. But he didn’t mind. He kind of liked it. 

 

Yet, for all of Ernesto's wild antics, he possesses a very introspective side. “ He was always searching for a kind of the meaning for life.” He was more advanced than his peers. He read serious authors. Nehru and Gandhi and Steinbeck and Faulkner and Mussolini. He was a voracious³ reader. 

 

Though he enrolls⁴ in medical school. Ernesto's true education comes from the trips he takes through undeveloped Latin America.

 

Alberto Granado was an older student. He proposed that the two take off for a journey by motorbike, the links of Latin America. It was a quest to look beyond the privilege confines. It were his birthright. Putting his medical degree on hold, Ernesto and Alberto head out on an old Norton motorbike nicknamed 'La Poderosa II' on January 4th 1952. 

 

'All we could see was the dust on the road ahead and ourselves on the bike, devouring⁵ kilometers in our flight outward. They travelled down to Patagonia, and crossed to Chile where La Poderosa finally gave out. Ditching the bike, they travel on foot and hitch⁶ rides on the back of trucks, heading for the interior of Chile. They travelled up to see the world’s greatest open pit copper⁷ mine Chuquicamata which loomed⁸ large in the imaginations of Latin Americans at that time because it was US owned and runned. It was this notion of the kind of monstrous⁹ capitalist enterprise exploiting the local workers. American companies like Anaconda and Kennecott monopolized¹⁰ Chile’s mining industry. 

 

American companies went to Latin America for two reasons cheap raw materials and cheap wages. To young nationalist and a young idealist of the early 1950s, it would be very hard to look upon US policies as practiced in Latin America kindly¹¹. He saw some that he hadn’t seen before. He saw the face of poverty. 

 

Ernesto being who he was, was terribly bothered by what he had seen. From Chile, Ernesto and Alberto head to Peru and then continue on to Venezuela. After seven months on the road, Alberto decides to stay in Venezuela while Ernesto returns home to Buenos Aries to complete his last year of medical school with a new social conscience.

1 seduce   

vt.勾引，诱奸，诱惑，引诱

参考例句：

• She has set out to seduce Stephen.她已经开始勾引斯蒂芬了。
• Clever advertising would seduce more people into smoking.巧妙策划的广告会引诱更多的人吸烟。

2 hygiene   

n.健康法，卫生学 （a.hygienic）

参考例句：

• Their course of study includes elementary hygiene and medical theory.他们的课程包括基础卫生学和医疗知识。
• He's going to give us a lecture on public hygiene.他要给我们作关于公共卫生方面的报告。

3 voracious   

adj.狼吞虎咽的，贪婪的

参考例句：

• She's a voracious reader of all kinds of love stories.什么样的爱情故事她都百看不厌。
• Joseph Smith was a voracious book collector.约瑟夫·史密斯是个如饥似渴的藏书家。

4 enrolls   

v.[亦作enrol]( enroll的第三人称单数 )；登记，招收，使入伍（或入会、入学等），参加，成为成员；记入名册；卷起，包起

参考例句：

• Enrolls the newborn register of names to print afterward and to mail. 录取新生名册随后打印并寄发。 来自互联网
• The association enrolls 100, 000 members. 该协会拥有10万名会员。 来自互联网

5 devouring   

吞没( devour的现在分词 )； 耗尽； 津津有味地看； 狼吞虎咽地吃光

参考例句：

• The hungry boy was devouring his dinner. 那饥饿的孩子狼吞虎咽地吃饭。
• He is devouring novel after novel. 他一味贪看小说。

6 hitch   

v.免费搭(车旅行)；系住；急提；n.故障；急拉

参考例句：

• They had an eighty-mile journey and decided to hitch hike.他们要走80英里的路程，最后决定搭便车。
• All the candidates are able to answer the questions without any hitch.所有报考者都能对答如流。

7 copper   

n.铜；铜币；铜器；adj.铜(制)的；(紫)铜色的

参考例句：

• The students are asked to prove the purity of copper.要求学生们检验铜的纯度。
• Copper is a good medium for the conduction of heat and electricity.铜是热和电的良导体。

8 loomed   

v.隐约出现，阴森地逼近( loom的过去式和过去分词 )；隐约出现，阴森地逼近

参考例句：

• A dark shape loomed up ahead of us. 一个黑糊糊的影子隐隐出现在我们的前面。
• The prospect of war loomed large in everyone's mind. 战事将起的庞大阴影占据每个人的心。 来自《简明英汉词典》

9 monstrous   

adj.巨大的；恐怖的；可耻的，丢脸的

参考例句：

• The smoke began to whirl and grew into a monstrous column.浓烟开始盘旋上升，形成了一个巨大的烟柱。
• Your behaviour in class is monstrous!你在课堂上的行为真是丢人！

10 monopolized   

v.垄断( monopolize的过去式和过去分词 )；独占；专卖；专营

参考例句：

• Men traditionally monopolized jobs in the printing industry. 在传统上，男人包揽了印刷行业中的所有工作。
• The oil combine monopolized the fuel sales of the country. 这家石油联合企业垄断了这个国家的原油销售。 来自互联网

11 kindly   

adj.和蔼的，温和的，爽快的；adv.温和地，亲切地

参考例句：

• Her neighbours spoke of her as kindly and hospitable.她的邻居都说她和蔼可亲、热情好客。
• A shadow passed over the kindly face of the old woman.一道阴影掠过老太太慈祥的面孔。