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。
学英语单词
2-ethylbutanol
a depository of development documents
abasic
alarm-scanning and data-logging system
analogue quantity
auxiliary helium circuit
Bambara Maoundé
be glad to see someone's back
belly-aches
benefit year
bengay
bette
biological control
Blyudtsy
brocade sweater
bronchiotetany
bull gear clamp
Christianisation
chromian muscovite
cilsses
clotrimidazole
coachwhip snake
cold-spot hygrodeik
conventional strain
croton codiaeum
desk clerk
deviatoric state of stress
diaspicera
diffused base transistor
direct-bonded brick
dispersion curve
displacement noise
divestments
downwind gustiness
duplex luminaire
electrode kinetics
emulation programming
erving
Feininger, Lyonel Charles Adrian
Feodor Dostoevsky
fornication with an underage girl
fourhorn sculpin
gachang (kachang)
gambol
get on the wrong side of someone
hand actuated
hernia intrapelvica
high speed planter
high symmetry
high-frequency chocke
injuries combined with radiation damage
isopectic lines
javert
km.
linkes
long-range group
low-energy coast
luminance transition
Male I.
man-made pollution
mass radiator
Mecistocirrhus digitatus
moisture-temperature index
nationalisings
nivation(snow erosion)
nuzzles
oil granuloma
ordinary composition series of subgroups
ossa multangulum minus
PC material
pitch detector
planer cutting tool
platinum contacet process
poiice
positive sequence resistance
Progressive Conservative
proper fraction
pyrex substrate
reservoir animal
river cocytuss
scenic sites
scourger
segregated ballast condition
sentelle
Seyyed Karam
shell formation
slab share
soda-microcline (anorthoclase)
static breaking agent
strawing
summer weed
surbated
tax exempt fellowship
tertiary-care
ton-force foot
topographic old age
transmitting core
turned-wood
unvised
usage sensitive pricing
wheatsheaves
zipfian distribution