大学英语精读听力第三册 unit9

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[00:00.00]In the last days of World War II
[00:26.64]Adolf Hitler and his closest associates had sought shelter
[00:31.24]in a command bunker before the fall of Berlin.
[00:35.45]He knew that defeat was close at hand
[00:38.95]and that he must prepare for his own death.
[00:42.14]Here is detailed description of how he ended his life.
[00:46.94]THE DEATH OF HITLER   William L. Shirer
[00:52.35]During the afternoon of April 29,
[00:56.84]news arrived at the bunker where Adolf Hitler
[01:00.45]and Eva Braun were separated from the outside world.
[01:05.04]Mussolini, Hitler\'s fellow fascist dictator and partner in aggression,
[01:11.13]had met his end, and it had been shared by his mistress, Clara Petacci.
[01:17.14]They had been caught by Italian guerrillas on April 27
[01:22.34]while trying to escape to Switzerland and executed after a brief trial
[01:28.63]On the Saturday night of April 28 the bodies were brought to Milan
[01:34.54]in a truck and dumped on the town square.
[01:38.04]The next day they were strung up by the heels
[01:42.03]from lampposts and later cut down
[01:45.43]so that throughout the rest of Sunday
[01:48.72]they lay in the gutter.
[01:50.92]On May Day Benito Mussolini was buried beside his mistress
[01:56.61]in the paupers\' plot of a Milan cemetery
[02:00.32]In such a horrible climax of degradation Mussolini
[02:05.31]and Fascism passed into history.
[02:08.71]It is not known how many of the details of Mussolini\'s shabby end
[02:14.90]were communicated to the Fuehrer.
[02:18.29]One can only guess that if he heard many of them
[02:22.39]he was only strengthened in his resolve
[02:26.00]not to allow himself or his bride to be made a spectacle
[02:31.20]not their live selves or their bodies.
[02:34.98]Shortly after receiving the news of Mussolini\'s death
[02:40.68]Hitler began to make the final preparations for his
[02:45.07]He had his favorite Alsatian dog poisoned
[02:49.46]and two other dogs in the household shot.
[02:53.04]Then he called in his two remaining women secretaries
[02:58.13]and handed them capsules of poison to use if they wished to
[03:02.91]when the advancing Russians broke in.
[03:06.23]He was sorry, he said
[03:09.02]not to be able to give them a better farewell gift
[03:13.41]and he expressed his appreciation for their long and loyal service
[03:18.61]Evening had now come, the last of Adolf Hitler\'s life
[03:24.38]He instructed Mrs. Junge,one of his secretaries
[03:29.06]to destroy the remaining papers in his files,
[03:33.03]and he sent out word that no one in the bunker was to go to bed
[03:37.52]until further orders.
[03:40.32]This was interpreted by all as meaning that he judged the time
[03:45.41]had come to make his farewells.
[03:48.81]But it was not until long after midnight,
[03:52.99]at about 2:30 AM of April 30, as several witnesses recall,
[03:58.89]that the Fuehere emerged from his private quarters
[04:02.78]and appeared in the general dining passage where some 20 persons
[04:08.19]mostly the women members of his group of associates,were assembled
[04:13.28]He walked down the line shaking hands with each
[04:17.59]and mumbling a few words that were inaudible.
[04:21.49]There was a heavy film of moisture on his eyes and,
[04:26.08]as Mrs. Junge remembered "They seemed to be looking far away,
[04:31.36]beyond the walls of the bunker."
[04:34.76]After he retired, a curious thing happened.
[04:39.85]The tension which had been building up to an almost unendurable point
[04:45.54]in the bunker broke,
[04:48.05]and several persons went to the canteen to dance.
[04:52.55]The weird party soon became so noisy
[04:57.04]that word was sent from the Fuehrer\'s quarters
[05:00.54]requesting more quiet.
[05:03.33]The Russians might come in a few hours and kill them all
[05:08.01]though most of them were already thinking of how they could escape
[05:12.82]but in the meantime,
[05:15.01]for a brief spell
[05:17.62]now that the Fuehrer\'s strict control of their lives was over
[05:22.22]they would seek pleasure where and how they could find it.
[05:26.50]The sense of relief among these people seems to have been enormous
[05:31.89]and they danced on through the night.
[05:35.10]Berlin was no longer defensible.
[05:39.38]The Russians already had occupied almost all of the city.
[05:44.06]It was now merely a question of the defense of the Chancellery.
[05:49.07]It too was doomed
[05:52.16]as Hitler and Bormann learned at the situation conference
[05:56.65]at noon on April 30,
[05:59.65]the last that was ever to take place.
[06:03.05]The Russians were just a block away.
[06:06.84]The hour for Adolf Hitler to carry out his resolve had come.
[06:12.35]His bride apparently had no appetite for lunch that day,
[06:17.94]and Hitler took his meal with his two secretaries
[06:22.04]and with his vegetarian cook,
[06:25.25]who perhaps did not realize that she had prepared his last meal.
[06:30.24]While they were finishing their lunch at about 2:30 PM,
[06:35.34]Erich Kempka, the Fuehrer\'s chauffeur,
[06:39.44]who was in charge of the Chancellery garage
[06:43.36]received an order to deliver immediately 200 liters of gasoling
[06:48.74]in cans to the Chancellery garden.
[06:52.24]Kempka had some difficulty in rounding up so much fuel
[06:57.44]but he managed to collect some 180 liters
[07:01.72]and with the help of three men carried it
[07:05.33]to the emergency exit of the bunker.
[07:08.93]While the oil to provide the fire for the Viking funeral
[07:07.93]was being collected,
[07:10.31]Hitler, having done with his last meal
[07:14.30]fetched Eva Braun for another and final farewell
[07:18.88]to his most intimate collaborators Dr. Goebbels
[07:23.55]Generals Krebs and Burgdorf, the secretaries
[07:27.94]and Miss Manzialy, the cook.
[07:31.55]They finished their farewells and retired
[07:36.04]Outside in the passageway
[07:39.54]Dr. Goebbels, Bormann and a few others waited.
[07:43.74]In a few moments a revolver shot was heard.
[07:48.13]They waited for a second one, but there was only silence.
[07:53.64]After a decent interval they quietly entered the Fuehrer\'s quarters
[07:59.55]They found the body of Adolf Hitler sprawled on the sofa dripping blood
[08:05.35]He had shot himself in the mouth.
[08:08.64]At his side lay Eva Braun.
[08:12.35]Two revolvers had fallen to the floor
[08:16.24]but the bride had not used hers.
[08:19.53]She had swallowed poison.It was 3:30 PM on Monday
[08:25.54]April 30, 1945,ten days after Adolf Hitler\'s fifty-sixth birthday
[08:32.33]and twelve years and three months to the day
[08:36.12]since he had become Chancellor of Germany
[08:39.41]and had instituted the Third Reich.
[08:42.81]It would survive him but a week.

[08:46.28]New Words
[08:56.59]单词
[09:06.89]bunker
[09:08.04]地堡
[09:09.19]fascist
[09:10.54]法西斯主义
[09:11.88]dictator
[09:13.17]独裁者
[09:14.47]partner
[09:15.87]伙伴
[09:17.26]aggression
[09:18.76]侵略
[09:20.27]mistress
[09:21.72]情妇
[09:23.17]Italian
[09:24.51]意大利的
[09:25.86]guer(r)ill
[09:27.20]游击队员
[09:28.55]execute
[09:30.00]处死
[09:31.45]executive
[09:32.99]实行的
[09:34.53]dump
[09:36.02]倾倒
[09:37.51]string
[09:39.01]排成一列
[09:40.51]heel
[09:41.86](脚)后跟
[09:43.20]lamppost
[09:44.85]路灯柱
[09:46.49]gutter
[09:47.94]街沟
[09:49.39]pauper
[09:50.90]贫民
[09:52.40]plot
[09:53.80]情节
[09:55.19]cemetery
[09:56.75]公墓
[09:58.30]horrible
[09:59.89]可怕的
[10:01.49]horror
[10:02.89]恐怖
[10:04.28]climax
[10:05.79]高潮
[10:07.29]degradation
[10:08.74]羞辱
[10:10.19]Fascism
[10:11.69]法西式主义
[10:13.19]shabby
[10:14.50]不光彩的
[10:15.80]Fuehrer
[10:17.20](德)元首
[10:18.60]strengthen
[10:20.24]加强
[10:21.89]resolve
[10:23.34]决心
[10:24.79]bride
[10:26.34]新娘
[10:27.90]spectacle
[10:29.24]光景
[10:30.59]preparation
[10:32.23]准备
[10:33.88]Alsation
[10:35.42]阿尔萨斯的
[10:36.96]poison
[10:38.36]毒死
[10:39.76]farewell
[10:41.19]告别
[10:42.63]appreciation
[10:44.07]感激
[10:45.50]loyal
[10:46.90]忠诚的
[10:48.30]instruct
[10:49.45]指示
[10:50.60]file
[10:52.14]档案
[10:53.68]word
[10:54.92]字
[10:56.16]interpret
[10:57.51]解释
[10:58.85]interpretation
[11:00.45]解释
[11:02.04]private
[11:03.39]私人的
[11:04.73]mostly
[11:06.18]主要地
[11:07.63]associate
[11:09.01]同事
[11:10.40]assemble
[11:11.80]集合
[11:13.19]inaudible
[11:14.70]听不见的
[11:16.20]moisture
[11:17.54]潮湿
[11:18.89]retire
[11:20.34]退出
[11:21.79]unendurable
[11:23.34]无法忍受的
[11:24.90]canteen
[11:26.30]食堂
[11:27.69]weird
[11:29.29]不可思议的
[11:30.88]request
[11:32.17]请求
[11:33.47]meantime
[11:34.76]其间
[11:36.05]spell
[11:37.45]拼写
[11:38.85]strict
[11:40.24]严厉的
[11:41.64]relief
[11:43.04]减轻
[11:44.44]enormous
[11:45.94]巨大的
[11:47.44]defensible
[11:48.89]可防御的
[11:50.34]doom
[11:51.84]注定
[11:53.34]noon
[11:54.59]中午
[11:55.83]apparently
[11:57.56]显然地
[11:59.30]apparent
[12:00.29]显然的
[12:01.29]vegetarian
[12:02.68](有关)素食的
[12:04.08]chauffeur
[12:05.53]司机
[12:06.98]liter
[12:08.38](容量单位)升
[12:09.78]gasoline
[12:11.47]汽油
[12:13.17]fuel
[12:14.52]燃料
[12:15.86]intimate
[12:17.36]亲密的
[12:18.87]collaborator
[12:20.26]协作者
[12:21.66]passageway
[12:23.26]走廊
[12:24.85]revolver
[12:26.30]左轮手枪
[12:27.75]decent
[12:29.29]合宜的
[12:30.83]interval
[12:32.19]间隔
[12:33.55]sofa
[12:34.94]沙发
[12:36.34]drip
[12:37.74]水滴
[12:39.14]swallow
[12:40.48]吞咽
[12:41.83]chancellor
[12:43.32]总理(或首相)
[12:44.81]institute
[12:46.31]学会
[12:47.81]Phrases and Expressions
[12:51.31]meet one\'s end
[12:52.81]死
[12:54.31]string up
[12:55.71]用绳吊起
[12:57.11]call in
[12:58.51]召来
[12:59.90]break in
[13:01.56](非法)强行进入
[13:03.22]build up
[13:04.82]增加
[13:06.41]in the meantime
[13:08.11]同时
[13:09.81]in charge of
[13:11.46]由···掌管
[13:13.12]round up
[13:14.36]集拢
[13:15.60]have done with
[13:17.20]终止
[13:18.79]to a/the day
[13:21.29]一天也不差
[13:23.78]proper names
[13:27.28]Adolf Hitler
[13:28.89]阿道夫·希特勒
[13:30.49]Eva Braun
[13:31.94]爱娃·勃劳恩
[13:33.39]Benito Mussolini
[13:35.29]本尼托·墨索里尼
[13:37.18]Clara Petacci
[13:38.84]克拉拉·贝塔西
[13:40.50]Switzerland
[13:42.09]瑞士
[13:43.69]Milan
[13:45.29]米兰(意大利城市)
[13:46.90]May Day
[13:48.35]劳动节
[13:49.80]the Fuehrer
[13:51.39]元首
[13:52.99]Junge
[13:54.63]荣格(姓氏)
[13:56.28]Berlin
[13:57.57]柏林(德国首都)
[13:58.86]the Chancellery
[14:00.31](德国)总理府
[14:01.76]Bormann
[14:03.32]鲍曼(姓氏)
[14:04.87]Erich Kempka
[14:06.62]埃里希·肯普卡
[14:08.37]Viking
[14:09.72]北欧海盗
[14:11.06]Goebbels
[14:12.87]戈培尔(姓氏)
[14:14.67]Krebs
[14:15.82]克莱勃斯(姓氏)
[14:16.97]Burgdorf
[14:18.42]布格道夫(姓氏)
[14:19.87]Manzialy
[14:21.37]曼齐阿里(姓氏)
[14:22.87]the Third Reich
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