英语听力：切格瓦拉的故事 - 14

 Without consulting Castro or Che, Khrushchev makes a deal with Kennedy.

 

America would never invade Cuba. We will take our missiles out.

 

To Fidel Castro and Che, it is an act of absolute betrayal.

 

And it was Che who was the first Cuban official face to face with the Soviet¹ official to kinda basically read the Soviets² the riot act.

 

Disillusioned³ with the Soviets, Che realizes he has to establish other strong left wing partnerships⁴. He finds what he is looking for in China.

 

You have the extreme revolution. That is Maoist. And Che Guevara, he belonged to this extreme.

 

Che is impressed by Mao Zedong's plan to take China from an agrarian⁵ society to a modern communist one. Che wants to do the same for Cuba. He has an ideal vision of the new socialist⁶ man, one who contributes for the greater good, not personal profit.

 

Now in our Cuba, work is acquiring a new meaning, and it's done with a new joy.

 

The idea was to create a new man who was willing to sacrifice himself on behalf of others to build a socialist paradise through hard work and dedication⁷. He very often even slept in his office. And even famous visitors remarked finding him there, sometimes asleep on the floor. He instituted a volunteer labor⁸ program, whereby in his only free day he would go off to cut cane⁹ himself.

 

He urges his colleagues to do the same.

 

He became renowned¹⁰ in Havana as a bit of a party pooper.

 

His wife Aleida and their four kids are also subjected to his rigid¹¹ ideology¹².

 

He was austere¹³ and severe at home. He refused to let his wife Aleida have the benefits of his ministry¹⁴ car. She had to take the bus. If she was given a gift by a foreign dignitary, she had to return them.

 

Che also has other more adventurous¹⁵ campaigns in mind.

 

Che wanted to focus much more on international revolution.

 

So he began to revive his hopes of extending the socialist revolution to other parts of Latin America as a way to create breathing space, open up a new lung for Cuba and the hemisphere.

 

He began to be seen increasingly by the Soviets as a kind of dangerous radical¹⁶ who was pro-Chinese. They were critical of him with Fidel.

 

Che realizes that the situation in Cuba is getting complicated and starts making plans to leave.

 

Che understood that Fidel was entirely¹⁷ now dependent on the Soviet Union economically, and it was up to him to sally forth¹⁸ and revolutionize the socialist world.

 

To succeed he will have to confront the Soviets, risk his relationship with Fidel Castro, and put himself on the frontlines. By 1963, Cuba’s economy has hit an all-time low. Che Guevara's plans to propel the country forward have failed. His solution is to end Cuba's reliance on the Soviets and spread the revolution around the world.

 

Che became increasingly disenchanted with the way things were shaping up to be in Cuba, as a Soviet satellite.

 

August 1964, the Lyndon Johnson Administration’s attention has diverted from Cuba to Vietnam and the increasing turmoil¹⁹ in Africa.

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 disillusioned   

a.不再抱幻想的，大失所望的，幻想破灭的

参考例句：

• I soon became disillusioned with the job. 我不久便对这个工作不再抱幻想了。
• Many people who are disillusioned in reality assimilate life to a dream. 许多对现实失望的人把人生比作一场梦。

4 partnerships   

n.伙伴关系( partnership的名词复数 )；合伙人身份；合作关系

参考例句：

• Partnerships suffer another major disadvantage: decision-making is shared. 合伙企业的另一主要缺点是决定要由大家来作。 来自英汉非文学 - 政府文件
• It involved selling off limited partnerships. 它涉及到售出有限的合伙权。 来自辞典例句

5 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。

6 socialist   

n.社会主义者；adj.社会主义的

参考例句：

• China is a socialist country,and a developing country as well.中国是一个社会主义国家，也是一个发展中国家。
• His father was an ardent socialist.他父亲是一个热情的社会主义者。

7 dedication   

n.奉献，献身，致力，题献，献辞

参考例句：

• We admire her courage,compassion and dedication.我们钦佩她的勇气、爱心和奉献精神。
• Her dedication to her work was admirable.她对工作的奉献精神可钦可佩。

8 labor   

n.劳动，努力，工作，劳工；分娩；vi.劳动，努力，苦干；vt.详细分析；麻烦

参考例句：

• We are never late in satisfying him for his labor.我们从不延误付给他劳动报酬。
• He was completely spent after two weeks of hard labor.艰苦劳动两周后，他已经疲惫不堪了。

9 cane   

n.手杖，细长的茎，藤条；v.以杖击，以藤编制的

参考例句：

• This sugar cane is quite a sweet and juicy.这甘蔗既甜又多汁。
• English schoolmasters used to cane the boys as a punishment.英国小学老师过去常用教鞭打男学生作为惩罚。

10 renowned   

adj.著名的，有名望的，声誉鹊起的

参考例句：

• He is one of the world's renowned writers.他是世界上知名的作家之一。
• She is renowned for her advocacy of human rights.她以提倡人权而闻名。

11 rigid   

adj.严格的，死板的；刚硬的，僵硬的

参考例句：

• She became as rigid as adamant.她变得如顽石般的固执。
• The examination was so rigid that nearly all aspirants were ruled out.考试很严，几乎所有的考生都被淘汰了。

12 ideology   

n.意识形态，(政治或社会的)思想意识

参考例句：

• The ideology has great influence in the world.这种思想体系在世界上有很大的影响。
• The ideal is to strike a medium between ideology and inspiration.我的理想是在意识思想和灵感鼓动之间找到一个折衷。

13 austere   

adj.艰苦的；朴素的，朴实无华的；严峻的

参考例句：

• His way of life is rather austere.他的生活方式相当简朴。
• The room was furnished in austere style.这间屋子的陈设都很简单朴素。

14 ministry   

n.(政府的)部；牧师

参考例句：

• They sent a deputation to the ministry to complain.他们派了一个代表团到部里投诉。
• We probed the Air Ministry statements.我们调查了空军部的记录。

15 adventurous   

adj.爱冒险的；惊心动魄的，惊险的，刺激的　

参考例句：

• I was filled with envy at their adventurous lifestyle.我很羨慕他们敢于冒险的生活方式。
• He was predestined to lead an adventurous life.他注定要过冒险的生活。

16 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。

17 entirely   

ad.全部地，完整地；完全地，彻底地

参考例句：

• The fire was entirely caused by their neglect of duty. 那场火灾完全是由于他们失职而引起的。
• His life was entirely given up to the educational work. 他的一生统统献给了教育工作。

18 forth   

adv.向前；向外，往外

参考例句：

• The wind moved the trees gently back and forth.风吹得树轻轻地来回摇晃。
• He gave forth a series of works in rapid succession.他很快连续发表了一系列的作品。

19 turmoil   

n.骚乱，混乱，动乱

参考例句：

• His mind was in such a turmoil that he couldn't get to sleep.内心的纷扰使他无法入睡。
• The robbery put the village in a turmoil.抢劫使全村陷入混乱。