双语阅读英语外刊精讲：伦敦桥恐怖袭击(附音频)

2018-12-30 09:08:00来源：酷学英语

　　In the aftermath, we can also see that the targets for this recurring horror have assumed a definable pattern. They are soft targets. We can send armed guards and security scanners to government installations, but how can any pub or any concert foyer in any city be made bomb- and attack-proof?

　　They are sudden. No warning telephone calls, no coded messages, no tacit understanding. It feels as if the terrorism of years gone by was played out under Queensberry rules.

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　　There is no obvious or significant ambition to destroy the pillars of the state: the men who use cars and vans as weapons and strike at random with foot-long knives aren't obviously seeking to obliterate army barracks or police stations or the Bank of England. Theirs is a war not on the foundations of a free society or on our vital infrastructure, but on people enjoying the benefits of a free society. It is, in many ways, a war on joy, motivated by a warped sense of piety.

　　We go out and dance and drink and eat. To zealots, these things are decadent and trivial. Yet they are in themselves small acts of political symbolism: we go where we like, do what we like, wear what we want, we love whom we choose, because we have a social framework and a political system that largely allows us to do that. If the extremists cannot dismantle the system, or the foundations that underpin it – and they know they cannot – then they seek to strike and terrorise ordinary citizens who benefit from the gaiety it offers and the freedom it brings.

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