听遍美国军事与暴力新闻--受人尊敬的记者被绑架案

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【新闻业】was his calling【职业】. 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【好战分子】 underground when he was kidnapped(7) on January 23rd.Initially(8) his captors【绑架者】 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【无理的；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.


听音瓶颈词汇

1. hostage [] n.人质
2. sharp[] adj.精明的
3. destine [] v.注定
4. league [] n.社团；团体；同盟
5. civilization[] n.文化；文明
6. tension [] n.紧张
7. kidnap[] v. 绑架
8. initially[] adv.最初；开头
9. claim[kleim] v.声称
10.agent [] n.代理；间谍；特务
11. respected [] adj.受尊敬的
12. connection [] n.联系
13. intelligence[] n.情报；信息
14. accurately [] adv.准确地
15. pregnant [] adj.怀孕的

听音高级短语

deal with 处理；应付

听音超级句型

The way he interviewed people and the way he wrote stories made it clear that he was destined for the big leagues.
他的采访方式，他的写作风格使他注定属于一个出色的团体。

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，他的一生以及我们共同的人生目标就是尽最大努力在不同的文明间创造对话。