时间:2018-12-11 作者:英语课 分类:访谈录2010


英语课

And it’s a very evocative stuff.


The guys, though, that fought in the Pacific, that fixed 1 things in the Pacific, worlds away from the glories of marching down streets in Paris. Remember, they are on the islands, specks 2 in the Pacific that nobody has ever heard of.


These guys in the Pacific got to essentially 3 play naked volleyball when they had time off. And the guys in Europe got to go to Paris, France and go  see shows in Leicester Square. The glory and the glamour 4 is distinctly distinctive 5.


And a far more brutal 6 war in the Pacific, if you read things like Flags of Our Fathers, as barbarous as the Nazis 7 were to Jews and others, there were still some rules of engagement on the battlefield, but in the Pacific, it was just savagery 8 all the time.


There was, uh, this was interesting. Band of Brothers came out, it was premiering, it actually premiered during 9/11, and we did not know what the reaction was going to be. Was it going to be the last thing anybody wanted to see, or was it going to be some sort of a tonic 9? The Pacific, now is coming out where it represents a war that was of racism 10 and terror. And what it seems is so the only way to complete one of these battles in these small specks of rock in the middle of nowhere, was to, I’m sorry, kill them all. And does that sound familiar to what we might be going through today? (Today) So, it’s, is there anything new under the sun? It seems as though history keeps repeating itself.


The other thing, Tom, in the Pacific, you didn’t have a correspondents corps  you had in Europe and that whole cadre of reporters going out on bombing runs, for example, out of wonder, and covering everything. Ernie Pyle didn't get to the Pacific until later. It was there that he was killed. And because they were island hopping 11, it was a lot harder to keep up with what was going on there as opposed to what was going on…


Even the great Ernie Pyle when he finally moved to the Pacific theatre and began to write about it. He was involved in a massive, amphibious landing, It is as if you couldn’t even tell what was going on, he went out on the rail of his ship in the middle of the night, thinking he was going to be in the middle of a huge flotilla, there wasn’t even a ship on the horizon. That’s how…

 



1 fixed
adj.固定的,不变的,准备好的;(计算机)固定的
  • Have you two fixed on a date for the wedding yet?你们俩选定婚期了吗?
  • Once the aim is fixed,we should not change it arbitrarily.目标一旦确定,我们就不应该随意改变。
2 specks
n.眼镜;斑点,微粒,污点( speck的名词复数 )
  • Minutes later Brown spotted two specks in the ocean. 几分钟后布朗发现海洋中有两个小点。 来自英汉非文学 - 百科语料821
  • Do you ever seem to see specks in front of your eyes? 你眼睛前面曾似乎看见过小点吗? 来自辞典例句
3 essentially
adv.本质上,实质上,基本上
  • Really great men are essentially modest.真正的伟人大都很谦虚。
  • She is an essentially selfish person.她本质上是个自私自利的人。
4 glamour
n.魔力,魅力;vt.迷住
  • Foreign travel has lost its glamour for her.到国外旅行对她已失去吸引力了。
  • The moonlight cast a glamour over the scene.月光给景色增添了魅力。
5 distinctive
adj.特别的,有特色的,与众不同的
  • She has a very distinctive way of walking.她走路的样子与别人很不相同。
  • This bird has several distinctive features.这个鸟具有几种突出的特征。
6 brutal
adj.残忍的,野蛮的,不讲理的
  • She has to face the brutal reality.她不得不去面对冷酷的现实。
  • They're brutal people behind their civilised veneer.他们表面上温文有礼,骨子里却是野蛮残忍。
7 Nazis
n.(德国的)纳粹党员( Nazi的名词复数 );纳粹主义
  • The Nazis worked them over with gun butts. 纳粹分子用枪托毒打他们。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • The Nazis were responsible for the mass murder of Jews during World War Ⅱ. 纳粹必须为第二次世界大战中对犹太人的大屠杀负责。 来自《简明英汉词典》
8 savagery
n.野性
  • The police were shocked by the savagery of the attacks.警察对这些惨无人道的袭击感到震惊。
  • They threw away their advantage by their savagery to the black population.他们因为野蛮对待黑人居民而丧失了自己的有利地位。
9 tonic
n./adj.滋补品,补药,强身的,健体的
  • It will be marketed as a tonic for the elderly.这将作为老年人滋补品在市场上销售。
  • Sea air is Nature's best tonic for mind and body.海上的空气是大自然赋予的对人们身心的最佳补品。
10 racism
n.民族主义;种族歧视(意识)
  • He said that racism is endemic in this country.他说种族主义在该国很普遍。
  • Racism causes political instability and violence.种族主义道致政治动荡和暴力事件。
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abandonable
advance agent
aecidium fatsiae
after-tax operating income
Atlatahucan
Bagolino
barded
booster hose tee
bottom clack
Braid's strabismus
brisses
broman
C O L I
carinal muscles
Circaeaster
Cistema di Latina
Cleistogenes hackelii
coeloma
come to a period
composition of conductor
conditional logistic regression
cross-addiction
cut that out
daily necessaries
death
ethylhydrazine
fast-neutron spectrum
foreign exchange cushion
Francoa ramosa
full trailer ship
fundamental line
gas discharger
get the pip
half a loaf is better than none
Hamletsburg
hand-rolling tester
high endothelial venule
high silica iron
hybrid rice
hypoleucus
improvable
impurer
incentive-based system
internal carotid plexus
level of information
ligamenta calcaneonaviculare plantare
lightning ball
Machilus viridis
mammonic
martys
mesoporous molecular sieve catalyst
minimum fresh air requirement
mixed autoregressive-integrated-moving average process
Morgagni's caruncle
mountain boarding
NAACLS
neck formation
nipple union
nkhoba
optical alexia
overlapping toes
overriding royalty interest
own-branded
parapareses
payment by bill
pontoon wharf
precondenser
purple-and-gold
put to the blush
Quain's fatty heart
regular pyramid
relexicalizations
root of notch
rotating spray
sea devils
secondary technical school
self-desire
self-evaluated
signal protection ratio
simulator training
smithings
smoothing of series
striping action
structural continuity
subpoena ad testificandum
supplemental data
take a ballot
technology-intensive
the leaves
three-stage mixing
to be caught short
torsional forces
trapezoidal spline rack type cutter
Triumfetta rhomboidea
trunk cabin
unstoried
water repellent contauner
weedscapes
wesels
West Melanesian Trough
xiaohua
zoozygospore