最新15篇文章贯通英语四级词汇MP3 Unit13-Part1

[00:13.77]Norman Bethune: a Canadian Hero in China

[00:18.69]Norman Bethune was born in Gravenhurst,

[00:23.72]Ontario, Canada in 1890.

[00:26.02]His family had a long history

[00:29.52]of human service, a fact

[00:31.49]that undoubtedly 1 shaped his life

[00:33.79]in later years. From the outset,

[00:37.29]as a young university student,

[00:39.70]he developed a mission,

[00:41.88]or goal in life, of compassion 2

[00:44.62]and commitment to helping 3

[00:46.48]the less fortunate to find

[00:48.01]freedom from the chains of poverty.

[00:50.86]In earnest, he developed

[00:54.25]a selflessness that dominated

[00:55.67]his whole life, but

[00:57.86]not without personal sacrifice.

[01:00.05]He was in a troubled marriage

[01:03.22]that consequently ended in divorce.

[01:05.73]Progressive medicine and humanitarian 4

[01:08.80]deeds became the sole

[01:10.99]purposes of his life.

[01:13.17]Understandably, his much younger wife,

[01:16.67]Frances, could not tolerate this situaton.

[01:20.61]From 1911 to 1912, Bethune worked

[01:27.17]as a lumberjack and teacher

[01:29.29]in a remote area of Ontario.

[01:31.58]He taught at“Frontier College”,

[01:34.32]a unique school that provided 

[01:36.29]basic education to adult workers

[01:38.47]at the lumber 5 camps.

[01:40.66]During the First World War,

[01:43.40]he became a stretcher bearer

[01:45.15](helping to carry the wounded

[01:47.56]from the battlefields).

[01:49.64]He, himself, was wounded

[01:51.60]by shrapnel(fragments of exploding  shells).

[01:54.89]He was confined, as a patient,

[01:58.72]to hospitals for months,

[02:01.01]receiving therapy and recuperating 6

[02:03.64]from his injuries.

[02:05.50]After the war, he completed

[02:09.11]his internship 7 at the hospital

[02:11.30]for sick children in London,

[02:13.37]England, leading to a certificate

[02:15.56]as“A Fellow of the  Royal

[02:18.08]College of Surgeons”.

[02:19.72]Later,in the United States,

[02:23.55]Bethune came in contact with

[02:26.18]poverty and deprivation 8, but

[02:28.36]his skills as a doctor

[02:30.22]also attracted wealthy patients

[02:32.85]who were willing to pay for

[02:35.04]services usually denied to the poor.

[02:38.43]He began to appreciate

[02:41.05]how money was corrupting 9

[02:42.48]the medical system.

[02:44.77]He developed an acute concern

[02:47.07]for the unattended medical needs

[02:50.13]and suffering among the poor.

[02:52.55]His mission was to relieve,

[02:54.95]as much as he could,

[02:57.03]the plight 10 of the less fortunate.

[02:59.43]He was appalled 11 at

[03:01.52]the indifference 12 shown by governments

[03:03.92]to these conditions.

[03:05.67]It was at this time that

[03:07.86]his own health suffered a setback 13.

[03:10.48]He had developed tuberculosis 14

[03:13.22]of the left lung and

[03:15.08]had to undergo a successful

[03:17.16]but dangerous operation.This episode

[03:21.54]with his health had

[03:23.40]a tremendous  impact on his life.

[03:25.91]It stimulated 15 an interest

[03:28.21]in thoracic medicine, especially

[03:30.18]the surgical 16 aspects in this field

[03:33.35]and for a couple of years

[03:35.76]he worked at a tuberculosis hospital

[03:37.94]in the United States.

[03:40.68]Following this  interval 17

[03:42.65]in the United States, in 1929,

[03:45.16]he began to specialize in

[03:48.01]thoracic medicine at the

[03:49.76]Royal Victoria Hospital in Montreal.

[03:52.72]He also began to write

[03:55.78]in medical journals, outlining

[03:57.97]new surgical techniques.Later,

[04:00.70]he invented, developed and

[04:03.98]refined surgical instruments