自考高级英语0600上册第14课课文逐字翻译

—

—

not isolated incidents, but crimes committed on a day-to-day basis

with the full awareness of officers at all levels of command.

—

这些罪行并不是孤立的事件，

而是每天都在 发生，

并且各级军

官对此都十分清楚。

The investigation was not staged so that veterans could spill out their

hearts or purge their souls;

这次调查并不是为了让那些老兵倾吐他们心中多年以来积蓄已

久的感情或是消除他们心灵的负罪感，

it was done to prove that the policy of the United States in Indochina

is tantamount

等價

to genocide

大量屠殺

,

而是为了证实美国在印度支那的政策与种族灭绝毫无两样，

and that not only the soldiers are responsible for what is happening,

but that everyone here in America who has allowed the brutalization

暴行

and de- personalization

冷漠

to go on is responsible.

对那里发生的一切应负责的不仅仅是美国士兵，

还有每一个允许

这种暴行和冷漠继续下去的美国人。

It was done also to show that you don't start making things right by

prosecuting

起訴

William Galley, no matter how guilty he may be;

这次调查的 目的还想告诉大家，不管威廉

?

凯利的罪行有多大，

you also prosecute the men who encouraged the situation.

还应该起诉那些造成这种局面的人。

It

was

done

to

show

that

there

is

not

just

one

Mylai

but

countless

Mylais and they are continuing every single day.

这次调查还告诉大家不是只有一个 迈莱，

而是有无数个迈莱，

类

似的事件

每天都在发生。

There was an almost total press blackout on the

testimony

証詞

of

those veterans.

那些老兵的证词差不多遭到彻底的封锁。

But this isn't new to those of us who were in the war.

但对于我们这些参加过战争的人来说，这并不新鲜。

I can remember traveling to Saigon and trying to talk to the admiral

海軍上將

who commanded the naval forces to tell him that what we

were doing was wrong.

想和统帅海军的上将谈谈，

告 诉他我们的所

作所为是错误的。

I remember going to a writer for a national magazine and telling him

this was a story the American people should hear.

记得我还去找过一位全国性杂志的撰稿人，

< br>告诉他在越南的暴行

才是美国人民应知道的。

He agreed, but said it would never get by his desk because the Army

would

rescind

取消廢除

the

magazine's

accreditation

報道權

to

cover the war,

他同意我说的话，

但他又说这种报道 永远无法发表，

因为一旦发

表，军方就会取消杂志对战争的报道 权。

and if you don't cover the war you don't sell magazines, and if you

don't

sell

magazines

then

nothing

happens

because

that’s

the

American way.

如果不能报道战争，杂志就卖不出去，杂志卖不出去的话，美 国

人民还是对发生的事一无所知，美国就是这样。

But the press isn't the only party in this country that's guilty of this

rampant

滋生蔓延

insensitivity.

但在美国，

新闻界并不是惟一造成这 种麻木态度的滋生蔓延的责

任者。

When I went to the chairman of the board of a large New York-based

firm

and

asked

him

for

money

to

help

us

get

transcripts

of

the

testimony

to

present

to

each

member

of

Congress

so

that

we

can

press our demands for open hearings,

当我去找一家总部设在纽约的大公司的董事长，

请求他赞助我们

将证词呈给国会议员以便敦促实现召开公开听证会时，

1

was

told

in

seriousness:

don't

think

you

can

market

war

crimes

—

it s a marketi

ng question, you know.”

他严肃地对我说：

“

我认为你不可能推销战争罪行

——

你知道，

”

And then in the next breath to his executive vice-president:

used to do that in World War II. Christ, what's new?

接着他对执行副主席说：

“

见鬼吧，二次世界大战时我们也是这

样干的。天哪

!

这有什么新鲜的？

We all know that this de-sensitizing started a long time ago in this

country,

but

it

is

carried

out

in

a

far

more

vicious

way

with

the

soldier.

众所周知，在美国，这种冷漠很早就开始了，但这种冷漠在士 兵

的身上实施得更加恶劣。

At

boot

camp

新兵訓練營

he's

presented

with

a

poster

in

his

barracks

兵營

of a crucified

十字架上

Vietnamese and underneath

it says,

在新兵训练营中，

他们的营房里挂着一张招贴画，

上面 是一个被

绑在十字架上的越南人，下面写着，

“

杀死越南佬。

”

The message begins to sink in.

士兵们逐渐明白画上的含意。

During training, calisthenics are done to a four-count,

在训练中，士兵要做一种四拍一节的体操，

and

at

the

end

of

the

four-count

everybody

jumps

up

and

yells

在第四拍上大家一起跳起来大叫

“

杀！

”

For the Marines at Camp Pendleton, before they depart for Vietnam,

there's a very special treat;

在潘德尔顿 营地的海军陆战队队员出发去越南前会受到一种特

殊的训练：

the sergeant takes a live rabbit and skins it, tearing it open, pulling

out

the

entrails

內臟

to

throw

at

the

assembled

soldiers,

saying,

中士手里拿着一只活兔子，将兔子剥 皮，撕开，扯出内脏扔向集

合在一起的士兵，说：

“

海军陆战队队员们。

”

And

so

we're

suddenly

faced

with

a

sickening

situation

in

this

country.

于是在这个国家，我们突然面对着一种令人厌恶的情形。

There's no longer any moral indignation.

再也没有什么道义上的愤慨，

And if there is, it comes from people who are almost exhausted from

past indignities inflicted on them.

即使有，

也是来自于那些被过去强加在他们身上的侮辱折磨得精

疲力尽的人们。

The country seems to be lying down and accepting

something as serious as Laos, just as before we dismissed the loss of

700,000 lives in Pakistan, the so-called greatest disaster of all time.

这个国家似乎逆来顺受地接受着类似在老挝发生过的严重事件 ，

就像以前我们曾对巴基斯坦

70

万人 丧生这一历史上最大的灾难

不予理睬一样

Well,

I

think

we're

in

the

midst

of

the

greatest

disaster

of

all

time

right now, because they are still dying over there every day. And I

don't just mean American boys.

我认为我们现在正处于历史上最大灾难之中，

因为每一天都有人

死去，我指的不仅仅是美国青年。

And the mass of people in this country literally don't give a damn.

这个国家的大众的确对此毫不在乎。

After

all,

you

can

switch

off

the

TV

news

and

put

on

Dick

Van

Dyke.

毕竟，你可以不看新闻 而去收看迪克

?

凡戴克的节目。

We're not on food rationing; people can still charge prostitutes

妓女

on credit cards;

我们的食物并没有实行定量配给，人们还可以使用信用卡嫖妓，

so

what

if

a

few

lives

are

used

to

save

American

face

in

an

unsaveable situation?

子，又能怎样 呢？

It should not be hard for people in this country to admit there is no

difference between a ground troop and a helicopter troop;

直升飛機

对美国人来说，

承认地面部队和直升 机部队之间没有什么区别应

该不是件困难事，

yet we have accepted a differentiation fed us by the Administration.

但我们却接受了政府灌输给我们的两者之间的区别。

No ground troops are in Laos, so it's all right to kill Laotians as long

as it's done by remote control.

在老挝没有地面部队，

只要屠杀是遥 控进行的，

就可以枪杀老挝

人。

Believe

me,

the

helicopter

crews

fill

the

same

body

bags

as

the

ground troops,

信我，直升机部队和地面部队死的人一样多，

and they do the same damage to the Vietnamese countryside and the

Laotian people.

相他们对越南乡村和老挝人民造成的破坏也是一样的。

It's absolutely incredible that this country is ready to accept this kind

of hypocrisy.

这个国家能够接受这样的虚伪简直让人难以置信。

But

what

this

country

doesn't

know

is

that

America

has

created

a

monster

可怕的力量

in

the

form

of

millions

of

fighting

men

who

have been taught to deal in violence,

但是这个国家不知道它将几百万 个战斗人员制造成一种可怕的

力量，他们受过从事暴力的训练，

and who have been given a chance to die for the biggest nothing in

history.

并被赋予一个机会为人类历史最大的虚无而死。

We have returned to this country with a sense of anger and betrayal

出賣

which nobody has yet grasped.

我们满怀愤怒和被出卖的感觉回到了这个 国家，

这一点许多人至

今还不明白。

We're

angry

about

the

same

things

you

are

in

terms

of

policy

—

a

little

angrier

because

our

lives

were

the

things

used

to

test

those

policies.