(单词翻译:单击)
听力文本
John Kennedy began his administration in nineteen sixty-one with great energy to do good things. After just three months in office, however, he had to take responsibility for a big failure. On April seventeenth, Cuban exiles, trained by America's Central Intelligence Agency, invaded Cuba. Their goal was to overthrow Cuba's communist leader, Fidel Castro. Most of the exiles were killed or captured. The last administration had planned the invasion. But Kennedy had approved it. After the incident, some Americans wondered if he had enough experience to lead the nation. Some asked themselves if the forty-three-year-old Kennedy was too young to be president, after all. Kennedy soon regained some public approval when he visited French leader General Charles de Gaulle. The French were very interested in the new American president. They were even more interested in his beautiful wife. The president said with a laugh that he was the man who had come to Paris with Jacqueline Kennedy. In Vienna, Kennedy met with Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev. Their relations would always be difficult. Khrushchev did not want to compromise on any issue. He threatened to have the East Germans block all movement into and out of the western part of the city of Berlin.
Not long after, the East Germans, with Soviet support, built a wall to separate the eastern and western parts of the city. President Kennedy quickly announced a large increase in the number of American military forces in Germany. He said the United States would not permit freedom to end in Berlin. About a year later, in October, nineteen sixty-two, President Kennedy said the United States had discovered that the Soviets were putting nuclear missiles in Cuba. He took several actions to protest the deployment. One was to send American ships to the area. They were to prevent Soviet ships from taking missile parts and related supplies to the Cuban government. In a speech broadcast on television, Kennedy spoke about the seriousness of the situation."It shall be the policy of this nation to regard any nuclear missile launched from Cuba against any nation in the Western Hemisphere as an attack by the Soviet Union on the United States."No fighting broke out between the United States and the Soviet Union because of the Cuban missile crisis. The Soviet ships carrying missile parts to Cuba turned back.
And President Kennedy promised that the United States would not invade Cuba if the Soviet Union removed its missiles and stopped building new ones there. The two sides did, however, continue their cold war of words and influence. In Asia, the Soviet Union continued to provide military, economic, and technical aid to communist governments. The Kennedy administration fought communism in Vietnam by increasing the number of American military advisers there. The United States and the Soviet Union did make some progress on arms control, however. In nineteen sixty-three, the two countries reached a major agreement to ban tests of nuclear weapons above ground, under water, and in space. The treaty did not ban nuclear tests under the ground. On national issues, President Kennedy supported efforts to guarantee a better life for African-Americans. One man who pushed for changes was his younger brother, Robert. Robert Kennedy was attorney general and head of the Justice Department at that time. The Justice Department took legal action against Southern states that violated the voting rights acts of nineteen fifty-seven and nineteen sixty.
The administration also supported a voter registration campaign among African-Americans. The campaign helped them to record their names with election officials so they could vote. As attorney general, Robert Kennedy repeatedly called on National Guard troops to protect black citizens from crowds of angry white citizens. Incidents took place when blacks tried to register to vote and when they tried to attend white schools. President Kennedy said the situation was causing a moral crisis in America. He decided it was time to propose a new civil rights law. The measure would guarantee equal treatment for blacks in public places and in jobs. It would speed the work of ending racial separation in schools. Kennedy wanted the new legislation badly. But Congress delayed action. It did not pass a broad civil rights bill until nineteen sixty-four, after his presidency. In November, nineteen sixty-three, Kennedy left Washington for the state of Texas. He hoped to help settle a local dispute in his Democratic Party.
The dispute might have affected chances for his re-election in nineteen sixty-four. He arrived in the city of Dallas in the late morning of November twenty-second. Dallas was known to be a center of opposition to Kennedy. Yet many people waited to see him.A parade of cars traveled through the streets of Dallas. Kennedy and his wife were in the back seat of one. Their car had no top, so everyone could see them easily. Another car filled with Secret Service security agents was next to the president's. Suddenly, there were gunshots. Then, many Americans heard this emergency report from television newsman Walter Cronkite:"Here is a bulletin from CBS news. In Dallas, Texas, three shots were fired at President Kennedy's motorcade in downtown Dallas. The first reports say that President Kennedy has been seriously wounded by this shooting."The cars raced to Parkland Memorial Hospital. But doctors there could do little. Thirty minutes later reporters, including Walter Cronkite, broadcast this announcement:"From Dallas, Texas -- the flash apparently official -- President Kennedy died at one p.m., Central Standard Time. "As the nation mourned, police searched for the person who had killed John Kennedy.
They arrested a man named Lee Harvey Oswald. Oswald worked in a building near the place where Kennedy had been shot. People had seen him leave the building after the shooting. He had a gun. Lee Harvey Oswald was a man with a strange past. He was a former United States Marine. He was also a communist. He had lived for a while in the Soviet Union and had tried to become a Soviet citizen. He worked for a committee that supported the communist government in Cuba. Police questioned Oswald about the death of president Kennedy. He said he did not do it. After two days, officials decided to move him to a different jail. As they did, television cameras recorded the death of Lee Harvey Oswald. Oswald was being led by two police officials. Suddenly, a man stepped in front of them. There was a shot, and Oswald fell to the floor. The gunman was Jack Ruby. He owned an eating and drinking place in Dallas.
He said he killed Oswald to prevent the Kennedy family from having to live through a trial. President Kennedy's body had been returned to Washington. After a state funeral, he was buried in Arlington National Cemetery, across the Potomac River. A gas flame burns at his burial place, day and night. An official committee was formed to investigate his death. It was headed by the chief justice of the United States, earl Warren, and was known as the Warren commission. In its report, the Warren commission said that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone. It said there was no plot to kill the president. Many Americans did not accept the report. They believed there was a plot. Some blamed Cuban leader Fidel Castro. Some blamed extremists in America's Central Intelligence Agency. Others blamed organized crime. The truth of what happened to John Kennedy may be what was stated in the Warren Commission report: that Lee Harvey Oswald acted alone. Or, perhaps, the complete truth may never be known.
重点解析
1.National Guard 国民警卫队
Now, the National Guard looks at us with respect and dignity.
现在,国民警卫队也以尊重和庄严的目光看待我们 。
2.Central Intelligence Agency 美国中央情报局
Even General David Petraeus, the new head of the CIA, says there are only 100 al Qaeda fighters in the whole of Afghanistan.
连美国中央情报局的新负责人大卫•彼得雷乌斯将军都说,在整个阿富汗,只有100个基地组织战士 。
3.Western Hemisphere 西半球
In the Western Hemisphere, only the US and Cuba have not joined the treaty.
西半球里只有美国和古巴两个国家尚未加入该项条约 。
4.voting rights 投票权;表决权
Within days of Bloody Sunday, president Johnson would present a bill to Congress that would gain passage later that year as the Voting Rights Act.
在血色星期天不久后,约翰逊总统向国会提交了一份议案,不久这项议案通过,这便是投票权法案 。
5.civil rights 民事权利,公民权利
Theoretically , the grass-roots civil judiciary must be the protector of citizenship , that be the God of Justice.
理论上,基层民事司法应当是公民权利的保护者即正义的守护神 。
6.Democratic Party 民主党
Public opinion turned against the Democratic Party.
舆论对民主党不利 。
参考译文
1961年,约翰·肯尼迪开始蓄势待发,走马上任
大约一年后,即1962年10月,肯尼迪总统声称,美国已经发现苏联正在向古巴运送核导弹
。美国采取了多项行动来抗议此次部署 。其中一项行动是派遣船只到该地区 。目的是防止苏联船只向古巴政府运送导弹部件和相关物资 。在电视讲话中,肯尼迪谈到了形势的严重性 。“美国的政策是把从古巴向西半球任何国家发射的任何一枚核导弹都看作是苏联对美国的攻击 。”由于古巴导弹危机,美国和苏联之间没有爆发战争 。苏联船只携带导弹部件返回古巴 。肯尼迪总统承诺,如果苏联撤除导弹并停止在古巴设立新的导弹,美国将不会入侵古巴 。然而,双方继续发声,扩大势力,进行冷战 。在亚洲,苏联继续向共产主义政府提供军事、经济和技术援助 。肯尼迪政府在越南通过增加美国军事顾问的数量来对抗共产主义 。然而,美国和苏联在军备控制方面确实取得了一些进展 。1963年,两国达成了一项重大协议,禁止在地面、水下和太空进行核武器试验
11月22日上午晚些时候,肯尼迪抵达达拉斯
。达拉斯以反对肯尼迪而闻名,然而许多人等着见到他 。一队汽车穿过达拉斯的街道 。肯尼迪和他的妻子坐在其中一辆车的后座上 。没有车顶,所以每个人都能轻易地看到他们 。另一辆装满特勤局安保人员的汽车就在总统旁边 。突然,有枪声 。然后,许多美国人从电视新闻记者沃尔特·克朗凯特那里听到这个紧急报道:“哥伦比亚广播公司新闻为您播报 。德克萨斯州达拉斯市,肯尼迪总统的车队在达拉斯市中心遭到三次枪击 。第一批报道称肯尼迪总统因枪击而身受重伤 。”汽车迅速开往帕克兰纪念医院,但是那里的医生无能为力 。三十分钟后,包括沃尔特·克朗凯特在内的记者宣布:“来自得克萨斯州达拉斯市的肯尼迪总统在中央标准时间下午1点去世 。”举国哀悼之时,警察搜寻杀害约翰·肯尼迪的人 。他们逮捕了一位名叫李·哈维·奥斯瓦尔德的人 。奥斯瓦尔德在肯尼迪枪杀附近的一栋大楼里工作 。人们看到他在枪击后离开了大楼,他有一把枪 。李·哈维·奥斯瓦尔德有着奇怪的过去
国葬结束后,肯尼迪被安葬在波多马克河对岸的阿灵顿国家公墓
。在他的墓地,一团火焰日夜不停地燃烧着 。为调查肯尼迪的死因,成立了官方委员会 。该委员会由美国首席法官厄尔·沃伦领导成立,即我们熟知的沃伦委员会 。沃伦委员会在报告中声称,李·哈维·奥斯瓦尔德是单独行动,总统暗杀不存在阴谋 。许多美国人不接受该报道 。他们相信其中存在着阴谋 。一些人指责古巴领导人菲德尔·卡斯特罗 。一些人指责美国中央情报局的极端分子,其他人指责组织犯罪团伙 。约翰·肯尼迪刺杀的真相可能如沃伦委员会在报告中所说:李·哈维·奥斯瓦尔德单独行动 。或者,也许,真相永远不会被世人知道 。译文为可可英语翻译,未经授权请勿转载!