美国有线新闻 CNN 2013-07-25-英语课

时间：2018-12-02 作者：英语课 分类：CNN2013年(七)月

英语课

We mark in this show the life and career of Helen Thomas, who died yesterday at the age of 92, but her story has four distinct chapters. There was Helen Thomas, the classic American success story, the daughter of Lebanese immigrants who settled in the U.S. with less than 20 bucks 1 to their names.

She made it good as a young female reporter in Washington for the United Press news service.

Then there was Helen Thomas, the legendary 2 White House reporter, breaking stories such as Gerald Ford's full pardon of Richard Nixon for Watergate, a woman so integral(构成整体所需要的) to the Washington experience that political movies cast her to give them a touch of reality.

Though she reported intensely, she did not land many enduring scoops 3. Few White House reporters do. But she embraced the theatricality 4 of her job, asking presidents from John F. Kennedy to Barack Obama the inconvenient 5 questions that many Americans want their leaders to face.

There was Helen Thomas, the path breaker, time and again prying 6 open doors for women in the notoriously clubby(俱乐部的；友善的；排他的) Washington press corps 7 by demanding equal status. She became not just White House correspondent but bureau chief(总编辑), not just the first female member of the Gridiron Club, but its president.

She forced open those doors because such recognitions would validate 8 women reporters in the eyes of politicians and their journalistic peers. She mentored 9 hundreds of women reporters and inspired countless 10 more.

And then there was Helen Thomas, the liberal gadfly, her beliefs fully 11 surfacing as she left United Press International to become a columnist 12 for Hearst Newspapers in 2000, along with skepticism toward Israel and American policy in the Middle East.

For three full years, wary 13 of her barbed questions, President George W. Bush neglected to call on her.

When he finally did, Thomas asked him why he took the nation to war against Iraq at all. There is a principle in journalism 14 that you don't remember someone solely 15 by the worst thing she did, but a reporter as sharp as Thomas would notice meaningful omissions 16.

Late in life, Helen Thomas called on Jews living in Israel to return to the European lands in which millions of Jews were murdered amid World War II. It was an astonishing and offensive remark. Thomas lost her job at Hearst and it effectively ended her career. Any honest rendering 17 of Thomas' career must acknowledge that moment, but any such account must also recognize the path she blazed, the battles she fought and the spin she exposed.

1 bucks

n.雄鹿( buck的名词复数 )；钱；（英国十九世纪初的）花花公子；（用于某些表达方式）责任v.（马等）猛然弓背跃起( buck的第三人称单数 )；抵制；猛然震荡；马等尥起后蹄跳跃

They cost ten bucks. 这些值十元钱。
They are hunting for bucks. 他们正在猎雄兔。来自《简明英汉词典》

2 legendary

adj.传奇（中）的，闻名遐迩的；n.传奇（文学）

Legendary stories are passed down from parents to children.传奇故事是由父母传给孩子们的。
Odysseus was a legendary Greek hero.奥狄修斯是传说中的希腊英雄。

3 scoops

n.小铲( scoop的名词复数 )；小勺；一勺[铲]之量；（抢先刊载、播出的）独家新闻v.抢先报道( scoop的第三人称单数 )；（敏捷地）抱起；抢先获得；用铲[勺]等挖（洞等）