(单词翻译:单击)
听力文本
At the same time, in nineteen forty-four, the Soviets were attacking Germany from the east. Earlier, Soviet forces had succeeded in breaking German attacks at Stalingrad, Moscow and Leningrad. Soviet forces recaptured Russian cities and farms one by one. They entered Finland, Poland, and Romania. By the end of July, Soviet soldiers were just fifteen kilometers from the Polish capital, Warsaw. What happened next was one of the most terrible events of the war. Moscow radio called on the people of Poland to rise up against the German occupation forces. Nearly forty thousand men in the Polish underground army listened to the call. And they attacked the Germans. The citizens of Warsaw probably could have defeated the German occupation forces if the Soviet army had helped them.
But Soviet leader Josef Stalin betrayed the Poles. He knew that many members of the Polish underground forces opposed Communism as much as they opposed the Germans. He feared they would block his efforts to establish a new Polish government that was friendly to Moscow. For this reason, Stalin held his forces outside Warsaw. He waited while the Germans and Poles killed each other in great numbers. The Germans finally forced the citizens of Warsaw to surrender. The real winner of the battle, however, was the Soviet Union. Both the Germans and the Poles suffered heavy losses during the fighting. The Soviet Army had little trouble taking over the city with the help of Polish Communists. And after the war, the free Polish forces were too weak to oppose a Communist government loyal to Moscow. Adolf Hitler was in serious trouble. Allied forces were attacking from the west. Soviet troops were passing through Poland and moving in from the east. And at home, several German military officials tried to assassinate him. The German leader narrowly escaped death when a bomb exploded in a meeting room.
But Hitler refused to surrender. Instead, he planned a surprise attack in December nineteen-forty-four. He ordered his forces to move quietly through the Ardennes Forest and attack the center of the Allied line. He hoped to break through the line, separate the Allied forces, and regain control of the war. The Germans attacked American troops tired from recent fighting in another battle. It was winter. The weather was so bad that Allied planes could not drop bombs on the German forces. The Germans quickly broke through the American line. But the German success did not last long. Allied forces from nearby areas raced to the battle front to help. And good weather allowed Allied planes to begin attacking the Germans. The battle ended by the middle of the following month in a great defeat for Hitler and the Germans. The German army lost more than one hundred thousand men and great amounts of supplies.
The end of the war in Europe was now in sight. By late February, nineteen forty-five, the Germans were forced to retreat across the Rhine River. American forces led by General George Patton drove deep into the German heartland. To the east, Soviet forces also were marching into Germany. It did not take long for the American and Soviet forces to meet in victory. The war in Europe was ending. Adolf Hitler waited until Russian troops were destroying Berlin. Bombs and shells were falling everywhere. In his underground bunker, Hitler took his own life by shooting himself in the head. Several of his closest aides also chose to die in the "Fuehrerbunker." One week later, the German army surrendered to Eisenhower and the Allies. "Yesterday morning at two forty-one a.m. at General Eisenhower's headquarters, General Jodl, the representative of the German High Command and of Grand Admiral Doenitz, the designated head of the German state, signed the act of unconditional surrender of all German land, sea and air forces in Europe to the Allied Expeditionary Forces, and simultaneously to the Soviet High Command."
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill. "Hostilities will end officially at one minute after midnight tonight, Tuesday, the eighth of May. We may allow ourselves a brief period of rejoicing. Today is Victory in Europe Day. Long live the cause of freedom." The defeat of Germany was cause for great celebration in Britain, the United States and other Allied nations. But two facts made the celebrations less joyful than they might have been. One was the discovery by Allied troops of the German death camps. Only at the end of the war did most of the world learn that the Nazis had murdered millions of innocent Jews and other people. The second fact was that the Pacific War had not ended. Japanese and American forces were still fighting bitterly. The war in the Pacific will be our story next week.
重点解析
1.succeed in 成功地做；取得成功
If you're going to succeed in this job, you will need allies.
如果你要在这个工作上成功，你就需要支持者。
2.rise up 起义；起来反抗
Mass text messages were used to urge residents within the capital to rise up.
他们用大批群发短信动员居民起义。
3.take over 接管；接收
She decided that I was the ideal person to take over the job.
她认定我是接手这份工作的最佳人选。
4.at the end of 在……的尽头；在……的末尾
Commuters were heading homeward at the end of the day.
一天结束时上下班的人们正赶着回家。
参考译文
与此同时，1944年，苏联军队从东侧进攻德国。早些时候，苏军成功地击溃了德国对斯大林格勒、莫斯科和列宁格勒的进攻。苏军先后收复了俄罗斯的城市和农场。他们进入芬兰、波兰和罗马尼亚。到7月底，苏军距离波兰首都华沙只有15公里。接下来发生的是二战中最可怕的事件之一。莫斯科电台呼吁波兰人民奋起反抗德国占领军。波兰地下部队近四万人听从了这一召唤，他们袭击德军。如果苏军帮助华沙市民，他们很可能会打败德国占领军。
但是，苏联领导人斯大林背叛了波兰人。他知道波兰地下部队的许多成员反对共产主义，就像他们反对德国人一样。他担心，他们会阻碍他建立对莫斯科友好的波兰新政府的努力。为此，斯大林把他的军队控制在华沙之外。他等着德军和波兰军队互相残杀。德军最终迫使华沙市民投降。然而，这场战争的真正赢家是苏联。德军和波兰军队在战斗中损失惨重。在波兰共产党人的帮助下，苏军几乎不费吹灰之力就占领了这座城市。战争结束后，波兰的自由力量过于薄弱，无法反抗忠于莫斯科的共产主义政府。阿道夫·希特勒遇到了严重的麻烦。盟军从西侧进攻，苏军穿过波兰，从东侧进驻。在国内，几名德国军方官员试图暗杀他。一枚炸弹在一个会议室爆炸，这位德国领导人险些丧命。
但是希特勒拒绝投降。相反，他计划在1944年12月发动突然袭击。他命令其部队悄悄穿过阿登森林，攻击盟军防线的中心。他希望冲破防线，分离盟军，重新获得对战争的控制权。德军袭击了最近在另一场战斗中疲惫不堪的美军。那时是冬天，天气非常恶劣，盟军飞机无法向德军投掷炸弹。德军很快突破了美军的防线。但是，德方的胜利并未持续多久。附近地区的盟军迅速赶往前线帮忙，好天气让盟军飞机开始攻击德军。战斗在下个月中旬结束，希特勒和德军大败，德军损失十多万人和大量物资。
欧洲战争即将结束。到1945年2月下旬，德军被迫撤退越过莱茵河。乔治·巴顿将军率领的美军深入德国腹地。在东侧，苏军也向德国进军。不久，美苏两军就取得胜利，欧洲战争即将结束。阿道夫·希特勒一直等到俄国军队摧毁柏林，到处都是炸弹和炮弹。在地堡中，希特勒开枪自尽。他的几位最亲密的助手，也选择死在“元首地堡”里。一周后，德军向艾森豪威尔和盟军投降。“昨天凌晨两点四十一分，在艾森豪威尔将军的总部，德军最高司令部代表约德尔将军，和指派的德国国家元首杜尼茨元帅签署了无条件将欧洲的所有德军陆、海、空部队移交盟军远征军，以及苏联最高指挥部法令。”
英国首相丘吉尔。“战争将于今晚午夜后一分钟正式结束，也就是5月8日星期二。我们可以给自己一段短暂的欢乐时光。今天是欧洲的胜利日，自由万岁。”德国的失败在英国、美国和其他盟国引起了极大的庆祝。但是，有两件事使庆祝活动没有想象中那么快乐。一个是盟军发现了德国的死亡集中营。直到战争结束时，全世界大多数人才知道纳粹杀害了数百万无辜的犹太人和其他人。第二件事是太平洋战争还没有结束。日美军队仍在激烈战斗，太平洋战争将是我们下期节目要讲述的故事。
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