英语听力：自然百科 国家地理：钻石：黑暗的一面—1（在线收听） |
A global business, built on glittering profits and polish marketing, has convinced us that this mere stone is a must-have. Diamonds are sold as ultimate tokens of love, romance and affection. At the dark corners to this new created trail and also represent greed, corruption and brutality.-What is an opportunity the places where you can make some profit? These are the confessions of convicted smuggling in blood diamonds.
-You have to have bold* steam* to do that.
Who descended to a hell of murder, rape and nuitilation* to buy them.
-You're going to give me my holy gut.
And the inside story of the world's biggest diamond robbery.
-You couldn't recover the diamonds.
How could hundred-million-dollar worth of diamonds simply disappear?
The world's oldest diamond market is in the historic Belgium port city of Antwerp. One Monday morning in Feburary 2003, a bombshell landed on the desk of diamond scout detective Arc de Bruycker.
-I'll never forget the date.
It was the first ever reported break-in at the city's famous diamond center, home to merchants and hundreds of millions dollars worth of diamonds. The center's formidable underground fort had never been breached.
-Once we've arrived at the ground scene, it was clear to us something very serious happened. It was complete chaos. All the safes were open. Papers, documents, jewels and money, everything was spreaded around. |
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