聽遍美國軍事與暴力新聞--受人尊敬的記者被綁架案

Abducted Man a Respected Journalist

The man behind that now famous but frightening image, the photograph of a hostage(1) with a gun to his head was born 38 years ago in Princeton New Jersey. Daniel Pearl a bright young man graduated Stanford University with a degree in communications, journalism【新聞業(yè)】was his calling【職業(yè)】. He returned to the north east to begin his career.

“He was such a sharp(2) kid that you knew he was going places”. He joined the Berkshire Eagle in Massachusetts in 1988 and won an award for a story the following year. “The way he interviewed people and the way he wrote stories made it clear that he was destined(3) for the big leagues(4).” And the big leagues it was, the Wall Street Journal hired him in 1990 and for the last decade he’s seen the world. He was first headquartered in Atlanta, then Washington, and then overseas to London, then to Paris where he met his wife Malieanne.

“We are two people who met and fell in love because we have the same ideal, you know and all my life and all his life and our life together is just a big effort to try to create dialogues between civilizations(5)..” His next stop was the Indian city of Mumbai better known as Bombay. He arrived there in December of 2000 and his most recent articles for the journal dealt with the increasing tensions(6) between India and Pakistan. He was in Karachi working on a story about the Islamic militant【好戰(zhàn)分子】 underground when he was kidnapped(7) on January 23rd.Initially(8) his captors【綁架者】 claimed(9) he was an agent(10) for the CIA.

“Mr. Pearl is a respected(11) journalist. He has no connection(12) with our government.” Later his captors claimed Pearl worked for Mosaad- the Israeli intelligence(13) agency. His colleagues at the Wall Street Journal call the charges unfounded【無理的；不成立的】. Pearl, they said, is a top-flight【第一流的,最高的】 journalist, nothing more. “This is a man who lives for three things. He lives for covering stories accurately(14); he lives for his wife they have a wonderful relationship; and he lives for his unborn child.”His wife is six months pregnant (15) with their first child. Brian Kabul CNN.


聽音瓶頸詞匯

1. hostage [] n.人質(zhì)
2. sharp[] adj.精明的
3. destine [] v.注定
4. league [] n.社團；團體；同盟
5. civilization[] n.文化；文明
6. tension [] n.緊張
7. kidnap[] v. 綁架
8. initially[] adv.最初；開頭
9. claim[kleim] v.聲稱
10.agent [] n.代理；間諜；特務
11. respected [] adj.受尊敬的
12. connection [] n.聯(lián)系
13. intelligence[] n.情報；信息
14. accurately [] adv.準確地
15. pregnant [] adj.懷孕的

聽音高級短語

deal with 處理；應付

聽音超級句型

The way he interviewed people and the way he wrote stories made it clear that he was destined for the big leagues.
他的采訪方式，他的寫作風格使他注定屬于一個出色的團體。

All my life and all his life and our life together is just a big effort to try to create dialogues between civilizations.
我的一生，他的一生以及我們共同的人生目標就是盡最大努力在不同的文明間創(chuàng)造對話。