英语听力：切格瓦拉的故事 -5

 They anticipate a 5-day journey. Che writes a letter to his mother, informing her of his actions. Hilda is to mail it if he should die in battle. In essence, saying his last goodbyes to Hilda and his young daughter that if he survived he would see them again. Er, that you know, the revolution cult¹. 

 

Two a.m., on the morning of November 25th, 1955, 82 men board the "Granma". 

With our lights extinguished, we left the port of Tuxpan, amid an inferno² mess of men, and all sorts of material. Fidel's words began to take on reality. In 1956 we shall be free or we shall be martyrs³. 

 

This course was revolution in Latin America, and next objective was Cuba, to liberate⁴ Cuba. And He had ceased to call himself Ernest Guevara, he had become Che. 

 

27-year-old Che Guevara has joined Fidel Castro and 80 others on an armed expedition to overthrow⁵ Cuban president Fulgensio Batista. On November 25th, 1955, the small army boards an old boat named the Granma and heads for Havana. 90 miles off the Florida Coast, the island of Cuba is enjoying benefits from its booming tourist industry. 

 

Havana was the whorehouse of the Caribbean. It was a place where Americans went on dirty weekends, there were a lot of sex shows, show girls, it was full of prostitutes, drugs. 

It was a kind of Havana atmosphere to which a lot of American tourists thought. And there were some very positive aspects . But there was another Cuba. And the other Cuba was, a Cuba that was basically run militarily by the dictatorship. 

 

Although the Einsendhower Administration supports Batista, most Cubans consider him a ruthless dictator. Fulgensio Batista was as much of a thug as ever governed a Latin American country. He was somebody who was considered beholden into U. S economic interest, to the interest of the U. S mafia in Cuba. 

 

The 7-day passage aboard the Granma has been turbulent. Entire boat to kind of an aspect both ridiculous and tragic⁶. Men with anguished⁷ faces, holding their stomachs, some with their heads in buckets, others lying in the strangest positions, immobile, unclothing, sores with vomit⁸.

 

It was an unmitigated disaster. They lost their bearings. They lost the men overboard--later saved him, when they eventually reached the coast of Cuba--they landed in the wrong place. 

 

They arrive in Cuban 2 days late in a broad daylight. As the old boat approaches the Las Coloradas Beach they hit a sandbar. Foundered⁹ and had to stumble ashore¹⁰ into a marsh¹¹. Before the troops have a chance to regroup, Batisga's air force attacks, and sends Che and the rest of Fidel Castro's men flee. 

 

They are able to evade¹² and re-forces for the next 3 days. But on December 5th, their luck runs out. In a matter of seconds a hurricane of bullets. And soon the attitude of Dantesque and grotesque¹³ scenes around us. Start to get yelling and trying to hide behind a single stalk of sugarcane. And another without really knowing why, crying out for silence in the midst of a tremendous uproar¹⁴. 

 

More than 2/3rd were massacred immediately. Che was wounded in the neck. He had to make a split -second choice between taking with him his rifle ammunition¹⁵ or the first-aid kit¹⁶. He left the first-aid kit and took the ammunition.

1 cult   

n.异教，邪教；时尚，狂热的崇拜

参考例句：

• Her books aren't bestsellers,but they have a certain cult following.她的书算不上畅销书，但有一定的崇拜者。
• The cult of sun worship is probably the most primitive one.太阳崇拜仪式或许是最为原始的一种。

2 inferno   

n.火海；地狱般的场所

参考例句：

• Rescue workers fought to get to victims inside the inferno.救援人员奋力营救大火中的受害者。
• The burning building became an inferno.燃烧着的大楼成了地狱般的地方。

3 martyrs   

n.martyr的复数形式；烈士( martyr的名词复数 )；殉道者；殉教者；乞怜者（向人诉苦以博取同情）

参考例句：

• the early Christian martyrs 早期基督教殉道者
• They paid their respects to the revolutionary martyrs. 他们向革命烈士致哀。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》

4 liberate   

v.解放，使获得自由，释出，放出；vt.解放，使获自由

参考例句：

• They did their best to liberate slaves.他们尽最大能力去解放奴隶。
• This will liberate him from economic worry.这将消除他经济上的忧虑。

5 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。

6 tragic   

adj.悲剧的，悲剧性的，悲惨的

参考例句：

• The effect of the pollution on the beaches is absolutely tragic.污染海滩后果可悲。
• Charles was a man doomed to tragic issues.查理是个注定不得善终的人。

7 anguished   

adj.极其痛苦的v.使极度痛苦(anguish的过去式)

参考例句：

• Desmond eyed her anguished face with sympathy. 看着她痛苦的脸，德斯蒙德觉得理解。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The loss of her husband anguished her deeply. 她丈夫的死亡使她悲痛万分。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》

8 vomit   

v.呕吐，作呕；n.呕吐物，吐出物

参考例句：

• They gave her salty water to make her vomit.他们给她喝盐水好让她吐出来。
• She was stricken by pain and began to vomit.她感到一阵疼痛，开始呕吐起来。

9 foundered   

v.创始人( founder的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• Three ships foundered in heavy seas. 三艘船在波涛汹涌的海面上沉没了。 来自辞典例句
• The project foundered as a result of lack of finance. 该项目因缺乏资金而告吹。 来自辞典例句

10 ashore   

adv.在(向)岸上，上岸

参考例句：

• The children got ashore before the tide came in.涨潮前，孩子们就上岸了。
• He laid hold of the rope and pulled the boat ashore.他抓住绳子拉船靠岸。

11 marsh   

n.沼泽，湿地

参考例句：

• There are a lot of frogs in the marsh.沼泽里有许多青蛙。
• I made my way slowly out of the marsh.我缓慢地走出这片沼泽地。

12 evade   

vt.逃避，回避；避开，躲避

参考例句：

• He tried to evade the embarrassing question.他企图回避这令人难堪的问题。
• You are in charge of the job.How could you evade the issue?你是负责人，你怎么能对这个问题不置可否？

13 grotesque   

adj.怪诞的，丑陋的；n.怪诞的图案，怪人（物）

参考例句：

• His face has a grotesque appearance.他的面部表情十分怪。
• Her account of the incident was a grotesque distortion of the truth.她对这件事的陈述是荒诞地歪曲了事实。

14 uproar   

n.骚动，喧嚣，鼎沸

参考例句：

• She could hear the uproar in the room.她能听见房间里的吵闹声。
• His remarks threw the audience into an uproar.他的讲话使听众沸腾起来。

15 ammunition   

n.军火，弹药

参考例句：

• A few of the jeeps had run out of ammunition.几辆吉普车上的弹药已经用光了。
• They have expended all their ammunition.他们把弹药用光。

16 kit   

n.用具包，成套工具；随身携带物

参考例句：

• The kit consisted of about twenty cosmetic items.整套工具包括大约20种化妆用品。
• The captain wants to inspect your kit.船长想检查你的行装。