双语阅读英语外刊精讲：敦刻尔克大撤退(附音频)

2019-01-01 09:13:00来源：酷学英语

　　A vast, all-white production such as Nolan's Dunkirk is not an accident. Such a big budget film is a product of many hundreds of small and large decisions in casting, production, directing and editing. Perhaps Nolan chose to follow the example of the original allies in the second world war who staged a white-only liberation of Paris even though 65% of the Free French Army troops were from West Africa. Perhaps such a circumscribed, fact-free imagination is a product of rewriting British history over the past decades, not in the least by deliberate policies including Operation Legacy. Knowingly or not, Nolan walks in the footsteps of both film directors and politicians who have chosen to whitewash the past.

　　All storytellers – and novelists, poets, journalists, and filmmakers are, ultimately, just that – know the power we hold. Stories can dehumanize, demonize and erase. Such stories are essential to pave the way for physical and material violence against those we learn to hate. But stories are also the only means of humanizing those deemed inhuman; to create pity, compassion, sympathy, even love for those who are strange and strangers. Stories decide the difference between life and death. And that is why Dunkirk – and indeed any story – is never just a story.

双语阅读：英语外刊阅读精讲(附音频) .

　　1. Word:

　　endorse: 支持

　　inadvertently: 不经意

　　Brexiteer: 英国脱欧的支持者

　　plucky: 尽管弱小，但仍然坚强

　　Briton: 大不列颠人

　　narrative: 叙述

　　expeditionary: 远征

　　lascar: 东印度水手

　　stage: 上演

　　deliberate: 深思熟虑

　　2. Phrase:

　　pave way for: 铺平道路、导致

　　We hope this trial order will pave the way for bulk purchase.

　　This agreement will pave the way for a lasting peace.

　　Pave the way for your heart with the first ray's purity.

　　3. Sentence:

　　(1) To do so, it erases the Royal Indian Army Services Corp companies.

　　(2) To do so, it erases the Royal Indian Army Services Corp companies, which were on the beach.

　　(3) To do so, it erases the Royal Indian Army Services Corp companies, which were tasked with transporting supplies.

　　(4) To do so, it erases the Royal Indian Army Services Corp companies, which were not only on the beach, but tasked with transporting supplies.

　　(5) To do so, it erases the Royal Indian Army Services Corp companies, which were not only on the beach, but tasked with transporting supplies over terrain that was inaccessible for the British Expeditionary Force's motorized transport companies.

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