时间:2019-02-09 作者:英语课 分类:英语听力精选进阶版


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His commanders refused to approve the plan. One of them called him a fool. But 60 years ago, Sojo A. defied them and marched into the cockpit of a passenger plane.


I said to the pilot, this is your life-warning; if you don't obey my instructions, this grenade will explode in seven seconds. I removed the pin from the grenade and I showed it to him. I started counting, and when got to 3, he asked me to stop.


Sojo A's plan was to steal the plane and use it to transport weapons for the Karen rebel group who were fighting to break away from the Burmese state. These were the rebels who were supposed to be waiting for the hijacked 1 plane on the ground.


I asked the pilot to fly to the R. territory, but we couldn't find the spot. The other side is what supposed to be a range of temporary landing ground and marked with a big sheet of paper. But we couldn't find them.


So the mission ended in glorious failure with the plane landing on a beach and the hijackers disappearing into the bush with money they stole. It was front-page news at the time but was then suppressed by successive military governments.


For decades Burmese story-making has been heavily censored 2, so, this sort of story about ethnic 3 rebels taking over a government-owned plane would never have been made or shown here. But there are now some signs that things are starting to change.


A hijacking 4 has now been made into a film, this time with the approval of the Burmese Military. As he makes the final edits, the director tells me, he now feels they about to tackle subjects that were previously 5 considered taboo 6.


Much of them so far have been comedies, because they are easy to get profit for centuries, and then they got money. Now we can start looking at serious things if we want these put aside from Myanmar.


Sojo. A was never caught. He became a Baptist minister and then a negotiator between the rebels and the government. Incredibly, six decades on, the Karen conflict is still unresolved.



劫持( hijack的过去式和过去分词 ); 绑架; 拦路抢劫; 操纵(会议等,以推销自己的意图)
  • The plane was hijacked by two armed men on a flight from London to Rome. 飞机在从伦敦飞往罗马途中遭到两名持械男子劫持。
  • The plane was hijacked soon after it took off. 那架飞机起飞后不久被劫持了。
受审查的,被删剪的
  • The news reports had been heavily censored . 这些新闻报道已被大幅删剪。
  • The military-backed government has heavily censored the news. 有军方撑腰的政府对新闻进行了严格审查。
adj.人种的,种族的,异教徒的
  • This music would sound more ethnic if you played it in steel drums.如果你用钢鼓演奏,这首乐曲将更具民族特色。
  • The plan is likely only to aggravate ethnic frictions.这一方案很有可能只会加剧种族冲突。
adv.以前,先前(地)
  • The bicycle tyre blew out at a previously damaged point.自行车胎在以前损坏过的地方又爆开了。
  • Let me digress for a moment and explain what had happened previously.让我岔开一会儿,解释原先发生了什么。
n.禁忌,禁止接近,禁止使用;adj.禁忌的;v.禁忌,禁制,禁止
  • The rude words are taboo in ordinary conversation.这些粗野的字眼在日常谈话中是禁忌的。
  • Is there a taboo against sex before marriage in your society?在你们的社会里,婚前的性行为犯禁吗?
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acetonyl acetone
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Godunov
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Sinp'o-si
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Trosna
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