英语听力：自然百科 国家地理：钻石：黑暗的一面—12
时间：2019-01-22 作者：英语课 分类：自然百科2013年
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The smuggler 1 began to suspect he was being set up. He was vulnerable and carrying more than a quarter of a million dollars. It would be all too easy for blood-thirsty rebels to take his money and his life.
-Is he going to kill me, my holy God?
Fear for his life overtook his lust 2 for blood diamonds ahd vast profits, he told the rebel commander that he wanted to leave.
-He said to me, if you want to go back to Liberia, you have to give me 15,000 dollars. And you know what it is, before he ended his word, I already opened my suitcase. I said, this is 15,000 dollars.
To get back to the relatively 3 safety Liberia border, he would have to walk by through war-wrecked territory, and faced with fighters and child soldiers, who could kill him on the wing. And this time he was traveling without the rebel leader's protection.
-So I was beating ** all day again**.
Carrying a suitcase full of diamonds and money, he was a prime target. Peros along the hike was almost 200 kilometers, included corssing the M* River, where rebels were rumoured 4 to throw their bleeding victims to the crocodiles.
-And I was scared, but I could not show it.
He hired child soldiers as guards.
-They were scared. They were more scared than me.
In a constant state of fear, he kept himself and his hired child mercenaries on the move.
-I met a guard. He said, we want to have a rest. I can't have a rest. I have full of diamonds. I have full of money.
He crossed the M* River at night and walked for four days, before finally crossing the border into Foya and relatively safety of Lieberia.
n.走私者
- The smuggler is in prison tonight, awaiting extradition to Britain. 这名走私犯今晚在监狱，等待引渡到英国。
- The smuggler was finally obliged to inform against his boss. 那个走私犯最后不得不告发他的首领。
n.性(淫)欲；渴(欲)望；vi.对…有强烈的欲望
- He was filled with lust for power.他内心充满了对权力的渴望。
- Sensing the explorer's lust for gold, the chief wisely presented gold ornaments as gifts.酋长觉察出探险者们垂涎黄金的欲念，就聪明地把金饰品作为礼物赠送给他们。
adv.比较...地，相对地
- The rabbit is a relatively recent introduction in Australia.兔子是相对较新引入澳大利亚的物种。
- The operation was relatively painless.手术相对来说不痛。