最新15篇文章贯通英语四级词汇MP3 Unit13-Part3（在线收听）

[00:00.00]In the meantime, Japan was 

[00:02.73]resuming its aggression against China. 

[00:05.68]The decade of the 1930’s 

[00:07.87]was the era of Fascist aggression 

[00:11.26]throughout the world. Bethune’s 

[00:14.00]knowledge of the long history

[00:16.51]of western aggression and  

[00:17.93]exploitation in China made 

[00:20.01]him conclude that his 

[00:22.97]services were needed there.

[00:25.15]In January 1938, he sailed 

[00:29.75]to Mainland China. He stated 

[00:32.70]that he refused to condone

[00:34.78](or support)wars which greedy men 

[00:38.28]make against others. He went 

[00:40.36]on to say that Spain 

[00:42.99]and China respectively were parts 

[00:45.61]of the same battle (against Fascism). 

[00:47.69]The Japanese had chased the Chinese 

[00:51.31]into the northwest part 

[00:53.38]of the latter’s country. 

[00:56.22]Mao Tsedung met Bethune only once, 

[00:59.51]but they remained acquaintances 

[01:01.59]by correspondence.Bethune almost 

[01:06.73]immediately set out for 

[01:08.26]the hazardous surroundings 

[01:10.34]of the mountain ranges of Yenan.

[01:13.19]In the company of 

[01:15.59]the Eighth Route Army, 

[01:17.12]Bethune practiced his profession 

[01:19.09]as best as he could. 

[01:21.28]There were no mobile units 

[01:23.58]and there was a desperate need 

[01:25.87]to recruit medical trainees 

[01:27.84]and convey his knowledge 

[01:30.36]and skills to meet the needs 

[01:32.33]of the soldiers. Consequently, 

[01:34.73]there was an urgent requirement 

[01:38.02]for illustrated medical manuals.

[01:40.53]Both soldiers and peasants 

[01:45.13]required a good deal 

[01:46.55]of medical attention. Again, 

[01:48.96]under very trying conditions,

[01:51.48]and with a lot of nerve,  

[01:53.55]determination and courage,Bethune 

[01:55.85]and his crew of Chinese assistants

[01:59.25] were eventually able to 

[02:01.43]establish and coordinate over 

[02:03.62]twenty medical and nursing 

[02:05.81]teaching hospitals. Because of  

[02:08.98]shortages of personnel and 

[02:11.61]other difficulties, Bethune himself 

[02:14.23]routinely operated for days 

[02:16.53]without reasonable breaks. 

[02:19.04]In one period, he worked  

[02:21.35]continually for sixty nine hours 

[02:23.53]on a total of one hundred 

[02:26.04]and fifteen patients. His ability 

[02:29.98]to endure such hard conditions 

[02:32.17]and retain his sanity 

[02:34.69]was little short of a miracle. 

[02:37.76]It was under these conditions 

[02:40.38]that his own life 

[02:42.13]became abruptly doomed. 

[02:43.99]In October of 1939, 

[02:46.83]possibly suffering from extreme fatigue, 

[02:50.34]he accidentally cut his left hand 

[02:53.80]with the blade of his scalpel. 

[02:56.31]Without proper medical supplies 

[02:58.83]and with germs everywhere, 

[03:00.91]his hand became infected 

[03:02.99]and blood  poisoning(a disease 

[03:05.51]called septicemia)spread. 

[03:08.02]He died on November 12, 1939.