(单词翻译:单击)
中英文本
Between 11am and 8pm on 9 April, Fox News replayed the footage of Saddam's statue coming down every 4.4 minutes. CNN replayed it every 7.5 minutes. The coverage of Firdos Square – which heavily implied that the statue had been pulled down by a large crowd of cheering Iraqis – suggested that the war was over. The hated dictator was symbolically ousted when his statue fell. In reality, it was not the end. The fighting was still going on. Armed engagements were underway in Baghdad and northern Iraq while the pageant was proceeding in Firdos Square.
在4月9日上午11点到晚上8点之间,福克斯新闻每隔4.4分钟就重播一次萨达姆雕像倒塌的镜头
Saddam would not be captured for another seven months. Stories abounded that he had body doubles: a German TV show suggested in 2002 that there were at least three of them. An Iraqi doctor claimed that the real Saddam had died in 1999 and had been played by doubles ever since. The Dutch researcher Florian Gottke wrote: "Saddam had already multiplied his body and extended his presence throughout the country through his statues, and by the same token, by living through the multiple living bodies of his doppelgangers he would become more than human, he would extend his presence into the realm of myth – he would even be able to survive his own assassination."
萨达姆在接下来的7个月内都不会被抓获
Saddam's omnipotence was an illusion, too. When the real Saddam was dragged out of the hole he had been hiding in, it was like the moment in The Wizard of Oz when the curtain is pulled back. Suddenly everyone can see that the Wizard is not some all-powerful demigod, but an ordinary little man who has made his own myth. The real Saddam – scruffy, hairy and wizened – was a world away from the proud statues showing him astride rocket-powered horses.
萨达姆的无所不能也是一种幻觉
词语解释
1.by the same token 出于同样原因
The penalty for failure will be high. But, by the same token, the rewards for success will be great.
失败就要付出沉重的代价,同样,成功就会获得很大的回报
2.omnipotence 全能
It also infers from God's omniscience and omnipotence that everything that happens is inevitable.
从上帝的全知全能中还可以推出,任何发生的事情都是不可避免的
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