讀《FT·金融時報》學(xué)英語：前以色列總統(tǒng)西蒙·佩雷斯逝世，享年93歲

Shimon Peres, the Israeli leader and Nobel Prize-winning peacemaker who coined the phrase “the new Middle East”, has died at the age of 93 with the region still sadly reminiscent of the old one.
以色列前領(lǐng)導(dǎo)人、曾獲諾貝爾獎并創(chuàng)造“新中東”一詞的和平締造者希蒙·佩雷斯逝世，享年93歲。令人遺憾的是，他身后的中東地區(qū)仍然和過去沒什么兩樣。

Shimon Peres was born Szymon Perski on August 2 1923 in what was Wieniawa in Poland (today Vishniev, Belarus) and sailed with his parents, a wealthy timber merchant and a volunteer librarian, at the age of 11 to British Mandate Palestine.
希蒙·佩雷斯1923年8月2日生于波蘭的維涅瓦（即今白俄羅斯的維什涅瓦），出生時的名字叫希蒙·佩爾斯基。11歲那年，他隨父母坐船來到英國托管的巴勒斯坦。他的父親是一位富有的木材商人，母親是一位志愿圖書管理員。

One of Israel's longest-serving public officials, he was prime minister, foreign minister and president at different times and played a role in the country's history from before its founding.He will be best remembered as a father of the Oslo accords, the blueprint that was meant to create a Palestinian state.
佩雷斯是以色列供職時間最長的政府官員之一，他曾在不同時期擔(dān)任過總理、外交部長和總統(tǒng)，在以色列建國過程中和建國以來的歷史上發(fā)揮過重要作用。他最為人銘記的身份將是《奧斯陸協(xié)議》的締造者之一，該協(xié)議是一份旨在建立一個巴勒斯坦國的藍(lán)圖。