时间:2018-12-11 作者:英语课 分类:万花筒2007年


英语课
For half an hour on Friday afternoons, the character is familiar and comforting the context is anything but. From a studio in Gaza on a TV station run by the militants 1 of HAMAS. This weekly children's program stars a Mickey Mouse look-alike with a young co-host, named Sara telling Palestinian children to drink their milk, pray five times a day and resist what they call the oppressive Zionist occupation.
The mouse preaches contempt for Israel and America. He adds we'll liberate 2 Iraq and the Muslim countries invaded by murderers.
We're tomorrow's pioneers, says Sara, we don't surrender. And miming 3 a tune 4 sung by a caller on the phone, the mouse fires an imaginary gun.
Israel has called the program an outrage 5. An Israeli group that monitors Palestinian media says: It's also a tragedy.
The children through this lovable image are receiving poisonous messages and they don't even realize they are being poisoned.
Not just by TV, a colorful HAMAS website tells a fable 6 about a girl who guides Israeli soldiers over a roadside bomb to their death, a martyr's fairy tale. Some say the problem isn't just what's put on TV or the Internet, it's real life.
A child in Gaza does not need a cartoon in order to hate the occupation, to hate Israel. He opens his eyes in the morning, can he sees reality around him.
Despite a rival faction's effort to censor 7 the show, a HAMAS official insisted it's our right to tell our children what we want and no surprise we try to reach them with an image that's familiar.

Richard Roth, CBS news, London.


1 militants
激进分子,好斗分子( militant的名词复数 )
  • The militants have been sporadically fighting the government for years. 几年来,反叛分子一直对政府实施零星的战斗。
  • Despite the onslaught, Palestinian militants managed to fire off rockets. 尽管如此,巴勒斯坦的激进分子仍然发射导弹。
2 liberate
v.解放,使获得自由,释出,放出;vt.解放,使获自由
  • They did their best to liberate slaves.他们尽最大能力去解放奴隶。
  • This will liberate him from economic worry.这将消除他经济上的忧虑。
3 miming
v.指手画脚地表演,用哑剧的形式表演( mime的现在分词 )
  • The actor was miming the movements of a bird. 这位演员正在摹拟一只鸟的动作。 来自互联网
  • Enneagram in Miming. A Silence Theatre production. 无声模式制作,用默剧手法介绍九型人格。 来自互联网
4 tune
n.调子;和谐,协调;v.调音,调节,调整
  • He'd written a tune,and played it to us on the piano.他写了一段曲子,并在钢琴上弹给我们听。
  • The boy beat out a tune on a tin can.那男孩在易拉罐上敲出一首曲子。
5 outrage
n.暴行,侮辱,愤怒;vt.凌辱,激怒
  • When he heard the news he reacted with a sense of outrage.他得悉此事时义愤填膺。
  • We should never forget the outrage committed by the Japanese invaders.我们永远都不应该忘记日本侵略者犯下的暴行。
6 fable
n.寓言;童话;神话
  • The fable is given on the next page. 这篇寓言登在下一页上。
  • He had some motive in telling this fable. 他讲这寓言故事是有用意的。
7 censor
n./vt.审查,审查员;删改
  • The film has not been viewed by the censor.这部影片还未经审查人员审查。
  • The play was banned by the censor.该剧本被查禁了。
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a moment ago
airborne digital computer
anchored sheet-piling
apium leptophyllum f. muell
aspersive
balance disc
baymouths
beryllium sheath
both field
Bou Bernous
breakin'
broad loom
bxn
Capital Controls
chainshot
checker flag
close-target resolution
cobaltnickel
condensate gas reservoir
coordinated metal complex
cystigenic valve
daddy long-legs spiders
degree of dispersion
diffraction
dominant complement
earnings function
electrode cone
ELFs
Erandique
extra-dimensional
extraction floatation
firth hardometer
flegm-
forced reversing
furfag
Hbl number
headstay
Hesperioidea
hot music
hot swap controller
hyperhalophilic
icdo
judgment debtor
Kenninghall
La Botija
lay oneself open to suspicion
least square criterion function
lefkasbestos
legal debt
LF (low frequency)
Llangendeirne
lost policy holder
Lysimachia pittosporoides
malapportioned
mandeb
maritimity
master group modulator
Mediterranean snapdragon
NCHB
Nienhagen
no sale
odd line interlacing
open up
pantihose
physiocrats
Pivaein
placage
prohibi
pulse sound
quotient object
regular-priced
rescatterings
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right-handed screw
sacrifice property
Saint-Gingolph
Sarmiento, Domingo Faustino
scolecobasidium amazonense
SECCY
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sidecutting
sigmoid conduit
signal control relay
skewed crossing
slizzard
societe anonyme
sodalicious
squirt cut
start up costs
step counterbore
strobo
subsonic escape
Sweden's international vehicleregistration letter
symphocephalus
theca folliculi externa
top center plate
trajactory
tribute-money
twin-laser
very
wonderbras
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