最新15篇文章贯通英语四级词汇MP3 Unit13-Part3

 

[00:00.00]In the meantime, Japan was 

[00:02.73]resuming its aggression¹ against China. 

[00:05.68]The decade of the 1930’s 

[00:07.87]was the era of Fascist² 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 condone³

[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 hazardous⁴ 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 illustrated⁵ 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 coordinate⁶ 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 abruptly⁷ doomed⁸. 

[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.

1 aggression   

n.进攻，侵略，侵犯，侵害

参考例句：

• So long as we are firmly united, we need fear no aggression.只要我们紧密地团结，就不必惧怕外来侵略。
• Her view is that aggression is part of human nature.她认为攻击性是人类本性的一部份。

2 fascist   

adj.法西斯主义的；法西斯党的；n.法西斯主义者，法西斯分子

参考例句：

• The strikers were roughed up by the fascist cops.罢工工人遭到法西斯警察的殴打。
• They succeeded in overthrowing the fascist dictatorship.他们成功推翻了法西斯独裁统治。

3 condone   

v.宽恕；原谅

参考例句：

• I cannot condone the use of violence.我不能宽恕使用暴力的行为。
• I will not condone a course of action that will lead us to war.我绝不允许任何导致战争的行为。

4 hazardous   

adj.(有)危险的，冒险的；碰运气的

参考例句：

• These conditions are very hazardous for shipping.这些情况对航海非常不利。
• Everybody said that it was a hazardous investment.大家都说那是一次危险的投资。

5 illustrated   

adj. 有插图的，列举的 动词illustrate的过去式和过去分词

参考例句：

• His lecture was illustrated with slides taken during the expedition. 他在讲演中使用了探险时拍摄到的幻灯片。
• The manufacturing Methods: Will be illustrated in the next chapter. 制作方法将在下一章说明。

6 coordinate   

adj.同等的，协调的；n.同等者；vt.协作，协调

参考例句：

• You must coordinate what you said with what you did.你必须使你的言行一致。
• Maybe we can coordinate the relation of them.或许我们可以调和他们之间的关系。

7 abruptly   

adv.突然地，出其不意地

参考例句：

• He gestured abruptly for Virginia to get in the car.他粗鲁地示意弗吉尼亚上车。
• I was abruptly notified that a half-hour speech was expected of me.我突然被通知要讲半个小时的话。

8 doomed   

命定的

参考例句：

• The court doomed the accused to a long term of imprisonment. 法庭判处被告长期监禁。
• A country ruled by an iron hand is doomed to suffer. 被铁腕人物统治的国家定会遭受不幸的。