读《FT·金融时报》学英语：前以色列总统西蒙·佩雷斯逝世，享年93岁

Shimon Peres, the Israeli leader and Nobel Prize-winning peacemaker who coined the phrase “the new Middle East”, has died at the age of 93 with the region still sadly reminiscent of the old one.
以色列前领导人、曾获诺贝尔奖并创造“新中东”一词的和平缔造者希蒙·佩雷斯逝世，享年93岁。令人遗憾的是，他身后的中东地区仍然和过去没什么两样。

Shimon Peres was born Szymon Perski on August 2 1923 in what was Wieniawa in Poland (today Vishniev, Belarus) and sailed with his parents, a wealthy timber merchant and a volunteer librarian, at the age of 11 to British Mandate Palestine.
希蒙·佩雷斯1923年8月2日生于波兰的维涅瓦（即今白俄罗斯的维什涅瓦），出生时的名字叫希蒙·佩尔斯基。11岁那年，他随父母坐船来到英国托管的巴勒斯坦。他的父亲是一位富有的木材商人，母亲是一位志愿图书管理员。

One of Israel's longest-serving public officials, he was prime minister, foreign minister and president at different times and played a role in the country's history from before its founding.He will be best remembered as a father of the Oslo accords, the blueprint that was meant to create a Palestinian state.
佩雷斯是以色列供职时间最长的政府官员之一，他曾在不同时期担任过总理、外交部长和总统，在以色列建国过程中和建国以来的历史上发挥过重要作用。他最为人铭记的身份将是《奥斯陆协议》的缔造者之一，该协议是一份旨在建立一个巴勒斯坦国的蓝图。