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In The Spot Where He Spent His Final Years, A Museum Honors Yasser Arafat

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A new museum in Ramallah in the West Bank is devoted² to the legacy³ of the late Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat. NPR's Daniel Estrin went there to peek⁴ at the memorabilia and walk through the small compound where Arafat spent his final years.

DANIEL ESTRIN, BYLINE⁵: When Yasser Arafat died in 2004, he was buried in a parking lot amid the ruins of his compound that Israel partially⁶ demolished⁷. Today, Arafat's grave is a mausoleum of glass and stone. Next to it is a gleaming three-story building - the Yasser Arafat Museum. It opened this month.

UNIDENTIFIED TOUR GUIDE: (Foreign language spoken).

ESTRIN: Tour guides have been leading groups of Palestinian high school students through the museum. Here behind glass are some of Yasser Arafat's most recognizable symbols.

MOHAMMAD HALAYKA: This is his glasses and shirt, his keffiyeh and his revolver.

ESTRIN: That's museum director Mohammad Halayka. He points out Arafat's signature black and white checkered⁸ keffiyeh headdress. There's also Arafat's passport.

HALAYKA: This is his - the first Palestinian passport with his name.

ESTRIN: Zero-zero-zero-zero-zero-zero-one.

HALAYKA: One.

ESTRIN: That's Arafat's passport number. In the pantheon of Palestinian figures, he's number one. The guerrilla-fighter-turned-peace-negotiator who held peace talks with Israel and won a Nobel Prize.

HALAYKA: It's displayed, the certificate of Nobel Prize in the middle here.

ESTRIN: And here what isn't mentioned in the display is how the golden Nobel Prize got to the museum. Nine years ago, the militant⁹ Islamist group Hamas snatched the Nobel when it ransacked¹⁰ Arafat's old Gaza headquarters and took control of Gaza. A few months ago, the Palestinian government in the West Bank negotiated with Hamas to give it back. As for the original Nobel Prize certificate...

HALAYKA: The certificate, we lost it. We had to ask for the Norwegians to give us the copy.

ESTRIN: And besides, there isn't much more that remains¹¹ from those peace efforts. Israel and its Western supporters long viewed Arafat as a terrorist. In the year 2000 when Palestinians mounted a bloody¹² uprising against Israel, they blamed Arafat for the violence. Israeli tanks surrounded his government building where he lived. He spent the last three years of his life there before dying in Paris. He used to sleep in a tiny bedroom. Visitors can peer into it for the first time.

HALAYKA: This is his bedroom.

ESTRIN: So there are four jackets hanging in this file-cabinet-turned-closet and a pile of keffiyehs up there with some long johns, I guess. A couple combs, a space heater, a radiator¹³ and his 14-inch TV. So nothing has been touched in this bedroom since he died?

HALAYKA: No. Nothing has been changed here, everything left as it is.

ESTRIN: And yet, so much has changed politically since Arafat's been gone. He was always controversial, even among Palestinians. But today, the Palestinian leadership is divided in a bitter dispute. One faction¹⁴ rules in the West Bank, the other in Gaza. They disagree on the Palestinians' national goal, whether to make peace with Israel or destroy it. Museumgoer Ahmad Aboushi stood in front of Arafat's bedroom and looked back with nostalgia¹⁵.

AHMAD ABOUSHI: We all miss him, the person who can unify¹⁶ us. We miss the leadership in his character and his charisma¹⁷, I think.

ESTRIN: And that's the way the museum looks at the memory of Arafat - as the founding father who brought the Palestinian cause to the world stage. The man with the scruffy¹⁸ facial hair and checkered headdress, whose face now adorns¹⁹ the hats and sweatshirts in the museum gift shop. Daniel Estrin, NPR News, Ramallah.

1 browser   

n.浏览者

参考例句：

• View edits in a web browser.在浏览器中看编辑的效果。
• I think my browser has a list of shareware links.我想在浏览器中会有一系列的共享软件链接。

2 devoted   

adj.忠诚的，忠实的，热心的，献身于...的

参考例句：

• He devoted his life to the educational cause of the motherland.他为祖国的教育事业贡献了一生。
• We devoted a lengthy and full discussion to this topic.我们对这个题目进行了长时间的充分讨论。

3 legacy   

n.遗产，遗赠；先人(或过去)留下的东西

参考例句：

• They are the most precious cultural legacy our forefathers left.它们是我们祖先留下来的最宝贵的文化遗产。
• He thinks the legacy is a gift from the Gods.他认为这笔遗产是天赐之物。

4 peek   

vi.偷看，窥视；n.偷偷的一看，一瞥

参考例句：

• Larry takes a peek out of the window.赖瑞往窗外偷看了一下。
• Cover your eyes and don't peek.捂上眼睛，别偷看。

5 byline   

n.署名；v.署名

参考例句：

• His byline was absent as well.他的署名也不见了。
• We wish to thank the author of this article which carries no byline.我们要感谢这篇文章的那位没有署名的作者。

6 partially   

adv.部分地，从某些方面讲

参考例句：

• The door was partially concealed by the drapes.门有一部分被门帘遮住了。
• The police managed to restore calm and the curfew was partially lifted.警方设法恢复了平静，宵禁部分解除。

7 demolished   

v.摧毁( demolish的过去式和过去分词 )；推翻；拆毁（尤指大建筑物）；吃光

参考例句：

• The factory is due to be demolished next year. 这个工厂定于明年拆除。
• They have been fighting a rearguard action for two years to stop their house being demolished. 两年来，为了不让拆除他们的房子，他们一直在进行最后的努力。

8 checkered   

adj.有方格图案的

参考例句：

• The ground under the trees was checkered with sunlight and shade.林地光影交错。
• He’d had a checkered past in the government.他过去在政界浮沉。

9 militant   

adj.激进的，好斗的；n.激进分子，斗士

参考例句：

• Some militant leaders want to merge with white radicals.一些好斗的领导人要和白人中的激进派联合。
• He is a militant in the movement.他在那次运动中是个激进人物。

10 ransacked   

v.彻底搜查( ransack的过去式和过去分词 )；抢劫，掠夺

参考例句：

• The house had been ransacked by burglars. 这房子遭到了盗贼的洗劫。
• The house had been ransacked of all that was worth anything. 屋子里所有值钱的东西都被抢去了。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》

11 remains   

n.剩余物，残留物；遗体，遗迹

参考例句：

• He ate the remains of food hungrily.他狼吞虎咽地吃剩余的食物。
• The remains of the meal were fed to the dog.残羹剩饭喂狗了。

12 bloody   

adj.非常的的；流血的；残忍的；adv.很；vt.血染

参考例句：

• He got a bloody nose in the fight.他在打斗中被打得鼻子流血。
• He is a bloody fool.他是一个十足的笨蛋。

13 radiator   

n.暖气片，散热器

参考例句：

• The two ends of the pipeline are connected with the radiator.管道的两端与暖气片相连接。
• Top up the radiator before making a long journey.在长途旅行前加满散热器。

14 faction   

n.宗派，小集团；派别；派系斗争

参考例句：

• Faction and self-interest appear to be the norm.派系之争和自私自利看来非常普遍。
• I now understood clearly that I was caught between the king and the Bunam's faction.我现在完全明白自己已陷入困境，在国王与布纳姆集团之间左右为难。

15 nostalgia   

n.怀乡病，留恋过去，怀旧

参考例句：

• He might be influenced by nostalgia for his happy youth.也许是对年轻时幸福时光的怀恋影响了他。
• I was filled with nostalgia by hearing my favourite old song.我听到这首喜爱的旧歌，心中充满了怀旧之情。

16 unify   

vt.使联合，统一；使相同，使一致

参考例句：

• How can we unify such scattered islands into a nation?我们怎么才能把如此分散的岛屿统一成一个国家呢？
• It is difficult to imagine how the North and South could ever agree on a formula to unify the divided peninsula.很难想象南北双方在统一半岛的方案上究竟怎样才能达成一致。

17 charisma   

n.(大众爱戴的)领袖气质，魅力

参考例句：

• He has enormous charisma. He is a giant of a man.他有超凡的个人魅力，是个伟人。
• I don't have the charisma to pull a crowd this size.我没有那么大的魅力，能吸引这么多人。

18 scruffy   

adj.肮脏的，不洁的

参考例句：

• Despite her scruffy clothes,there was an air of sophistication about her.尽管她衣衫褴褛，但神态老练世故。
• His scruffy appearance does not reflect his character.他邋遢的外表并不反映他的性格。

19 adorns   

装饰，佩带( adorn的第三人称单数 )

参考例句：

• Have adornment, the building adorns the product of material. 有装饰，就有建筑装饰材料的制品。
• In this case, WALL-E adorns every pillar. 在这段时间，Wall-E占据了各个显要位置。