英语听力：切格瓦拉的故事 - 6

 When Che finally reunites with Fidel Castro and the others, he's shocked to see how small the group is.

Only 17 of the original 82 men on board the Granma, amongst them, Che and the Castrol brothers, Fidel and Raul were amongst the survivors¹. The invasion was such a disaster that news reports initially² sent out the news that Fidel and Che had died.

 

Fidel Castro, Che and the others regroup and move towards the Sierra Maestra mountain range. The Sierra Maestra was the mountain range nears the coast where they landed and where Fidel planed to base his guerrilla movement. The Sierra Maestra is home to renegades, smugglers and the hardy³ peasant population.

 

Either were I or other farmers in the area aware that there was a revolutionary movement taking place. It took us by surprise. I knew nothing about politics.

 

16-year old Dariel Ramirez, nicknamed Benigno, works on his father's farm in the Sierra Maestra.

They arrived at  my home to ask for food and we gave them some. But I didn't help them because I sympathized with them. I helped them out of fear of oppression.

 

The strangers in the mountains are viewed with suspicion. Who are these bearded, smelly strangers with guns?  Making a noisome⁴ intrusion into their lives.

 

Fidel Castro tries to convince the peasants to side with him and his men. He decided⁵ to impress upon the peasants that he would bring about agrarian⁶ reform. And he did that by, basically, stealing a bunch of cows from a landowner's hand, liberating⁷ them and handing them over to the areas peasants. That was a very popular move.

 

Castro decides it's time to make the rebel presence felt and plans for an attack on an army outpost in the area. Che is heading for his first battle. On January 22nd 1957, the rebel staged an ambush⁸ on an army patrol. As the first shots rain out, Che is face to face with the enemy.

He shot him and then saw him drop. And he seemed to be gaging in his own reactions to see how he felt about it and he felt fine, he felt fine.

 

The small group is now faced with having to execute one of their own. The traitor⁹, a man called Eutimio Guerra, one of their first collaborators, was discovered to be a spy. Fidel sentenced this man to death. No one ever said who had executed the Eutimio Guerra. But in Che's personal diary, it emerged that he had and he described it in vivid detail, taking the man's possessions from him, exchanging words from him, and then Che stepping up to his side, there was a thunderstorm breaking just then, and placing a revolver at his temple, and blowing his brains out, the 25 caliber¹⁰ revolver. Che inspected the entry and exit wound, very much the doctor, writing down that he had slept fine with what he had done. From that moment on, Che changed.

 

War is harsh and at a time when the enemy was intensifying¹¹ its aggressiveness. One could not tolerate even the suspicion of treason. I don't know the final tally¹² of the execution of victims of Che Guevara, but it was certainly dozens.

1 survivors   

幸存者，残存者，生还者( survivor的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The survivors were adrift in a lifeboat for six days. 幸存者在救生艇上漂流了六天。
• survivors clinging to a raft 紧紧抓住救生筏的幸存者

2 initially   

adv.最初，开始

参考例句：

• The ban was initially opposed by the US.这一禁令首先遭到美国的反对。
• Feathers initially developed from insect scales.羽毛最初由昆虫的翅瓣演化而来。

3 hardy   

adj.勇敢的，果断的，吃苦的；耐寒的

参考例句：

• The kind of plant is a hardy annual.这种植物是耐寒的一年生植物。
• He is a hardy person.他是一个能吃苦耐劳的人。

4 noisome   

adj.有害的，可厌的

参考例句：

• The air is infected with noisome gases.空气受到了有害气体的污染。
• I destroy all noisome and rank weeds ,I keep down all pestilent vapours.我摧毁了一切丛生的毒草，控制一切有害的烟雾。

5 decided   

adj.决定了的，坚决的；明显的，明确的

参考例句：

• This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
• There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。

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 liberating   

解放，释放( liberate的现在分词 )

参考例句：

• Revolution means liberating the productive forces. 革命就是为了解放生产力。
• They had already taken on their shoulders the burden of reforming society and liberating mankind. 甚至在这些集会聚谈中，他们就已经夸大地把改革社会、解放人群的责任放在自己的肩头了。 来自汉英文学 - 家（1-26） - 家（1-26）

8 ambush   

n.埋伏(地点)；伏兵；v.埋伏；伏击

参考例句：

• Our soldiers lay in ambush in the jungle for the enemy.我方战士埋伏在丛林中等待敌人。
• Four men led by a sergeant lay in ambush at the crossroads.由一名中士率领的四名士兵埋伏在十字路口。

9 traitor   

n.叛徒，卖国贼

参考例句：

• The traitor was finally found out and put in prison.那个卖国贼终于被人发现并被监禁了起来。
• He was sold out by a traitor and arrested.他被叛徒出卖而被捕了。

10 caliber   

n.能力；水准

参考例句：

• They ought to win with players of such high caliber.他们选手的能力这样高,应该获胜。
• We are always trying to improve the caliber of our schools.我们一直在想方设法提高我们学校的水平。

11 intensifying   

v.（使）增强， （使）加剧( intensify的现在分词 )；增辉

参考例句：

• The allies are intensifying their air campaign. 联军部队正加大他们的空战强度。 来自辞典例句
• The rest of the European powers were in a state of intensifying congestion. 其余的欧洲强国则处于越来越拥挤的状态。 来自英汉非文学 - 历史

12 tally   

n.计数器，记分，一致，测量；vt.计算，记录，使一致；vi.计算，记分，一致

参考例句：

• Don't forget to keep a careful tally of what you spend.别忘了仔细记下你的开支账目。
• The facts mentioned in the report tally to every detail.报告中所提到的事实都丝毫不差。