时间:2018-12-11 作者:英语课 分类:万花筒2007年


英语课
For half an hour on Friday afternoons, the character is familiar and comforting the context is anything but. From a studio in Gaza on a TV station run by the militants 1 of HAMAS. This weekly children's program stars a Mickey Mouse look-alike with a young co-host, named Sara telling Palestinian children to drink their milk, pray five times a day and resist what they call the oppressive Zionist occupation.
The mouse preaches contempt for Israel and America. He adds we'll liberate 2 Iraq and the Muslim countries invaded by murderers.
We're tomorrow's pioneers, says Sara, we don't surrender. And miming 3 a tune 4 sung by a caller on the phone, the mouse fires an imaginary gun.
Israel has called the program an outrage 5. An Israeli group that monitors Palestinian media says: It's also a tragedy.
The children through this lovable image are receiving poisonous messages and they don't even realize they are being poisoned.
Not just by TV, a colorful HAMAS website tells a fable 6 about a girl who guides Israeli soldiers over a roadside bomb to their death, a martyr's fairy tale. Some say the problem isn't just what's put on TV or the Internet, it's real life.
A child in Gaza does not need a cartoon in order to hate the occupation, to hate Israel. He opens his eyes in the morning, can he sees reality around him.
Despite a rival faction's effort to censor 7 the show, a HAMAS official insisted it's our right to tell our children what we want and no surprise we try to reach them with an image that's familiar.

Richard Roth, CBS news, London.


1 militants
激进分子,好斗分子( militant的名词复数 )
  • The militants have been sporadically fighting the government for years. 几年来,反叛分子一直对政府实施零星的战斗。
  • Despite the onslaught, Palestinian militants managed to fire off rockets. 尽管如此,巴勒斯坦的激进分子仍然发射导弹。
2 liberate
v.解放,使获得自由,释出,放出;vt.解放,使获自由
  • They did their best to liberate slaves.他们尽最大能力去解放奴隶。
  • This will liberate him from economic worry.这将消除他经济上的忧虑。
3 miming
v.指手画脚地表演,用哑剧的形式表演( mime的现在分词 )
  • The actor was miming the movements of a bird. 这位演员正在摹拟一只鸟的动作。 来自互联网
  • Enneagram in Miming. A Silence Theatre production. 无声模式制作,用默剧手法介绍九型人格。 来自互联网
4 tune
n.调子;和谐,协调;v.调音,调节,调整
  • He'd written a tune,and played it to us on the piano.他写了一段曲子,并在钢琴上弹给我们听。
  • The boy beat out a tune on a tin can.那男孩在易拉罐上敲出一首曲子。
5 outrage
n.暴行,侮辱,愤怒;vt.凌辱,激怒
  • When he heard the news he reacted with a sense of outrage.他得悉此事时义愤填膺。
  • We should never forget the outrage committed by the Japanese invaders.我们永远都不应该忘记日本侵略者犯下的暴行。
6 fable
n.寓言;童话;神话
  • The fable is given on the next page. 这篇寓言登在下一页上。
  • He had some motive in telling this fable. 他讲这寓言故事是有用意的。
7 censor
n./vt.审查,审查员;删改
  • The film has not been viewed by the censor.这部影片还未经审查人员审查。
  • The play was banned by the censor.该剧本被查禁了。
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automatic yarn piecing machine
beryllium sulfate
bimanous
birational
bisignani
blackwood
Bruijn's
carle
common centre of curvature
composite sintered compact
compositus
compressed-powder source
consumer markets
coupled waves
courtesy bus
coverage interest arbitrage
crossing sleeper
cumarin
deck trailer
derepresss
diploteratology
diptilomiopus decem
directly cooled annular compact
Dyssplenism
earth orientation parameters
economic regulating mechanism
effusionis synovitis
Eksjö
electron device testing
EMYCIN
Equilib
field's discontinuity
fishery harbor
fly-wheel scale
free input/output mode
gas venting system
greedy as a wolf
had nothing in common
heat liberation
hinderedtransition
hors la loi
hospital elevator
hydraulic extension screed unit
hydraulic relay valve
intravenous cardio-angiography
leak path
leaves off
LeWitt, Sol
low-birth-weight infants
marilas
message design
miniaturist
moderated kernel
monolayer evaporation
monophase equilibrium
myocardium cell
myriapodal
network services layer
non-tratified form
number of satellites
overslipped
pay statement
photorpeater
plate of accumulator
plating leach
premRNA
Prunus armeniaca L.
psammitic
raiche
real capital maintenance
registration of a meter
relative exposure factor
rhamnohexoses
ridge estimate
Salas, R.
schmaleness effect
seclusion lodge
semi-bluff
sherrifs
shoot her mouth off
signature (sig)
silbereisen
silicate bond wheel
simonized
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SNCC
spini-grade
standard of fidle work
statutory employee
talla
transit document
tweedler
Varāmīn
vascule
vicarly
Villarrica
VV (vent valve)
wallens
wash-out structure
whitelist
write cache
zuid-holland