英语英雄小故事

英语英雄小故事

【篇一：英语英雄小故事】

when in rome the pope stopped to pray for the president’s

recovery and immediately sent him a personal message with

his prayers and hopes.

these were worrisome times. it had not been so long before,

during a vatican meeting with an aide to the pope’s secretary

of state, that william casey left with a final word of caution.

the cia station in rome had passed along a curious, and

perhaps important, piece of information. when lech walesa had

visited the pope, his host had been a man from the italian

labour confederation. the cia had been told by italian counter-

intelligence officials that the host was working for bulgaria.

since bulgarians were under the control of the soviets, this

could either mean that solidarity’s plans were compromised or

that walesa was in danger.

on may 13, 1981, at 5 pm, the pontiff emerged for his weekly

general audience in st, peter’s square. after entering the open

“popemobile”,the pontiff was riding around the colonnade. his

aide stanislaw dziwisz was next to him.

suddenly dziwisz heard a deafening noise, and pigeons all

over the square took flight. then the pope slumped against him.

“i knew the holy father was hit”, dziwisz says “but there was

no sign of blood or a wound on him . then i asked him. ‘where?’

he replied, ‘in my stomach.’”

the pope had been wounded in his stomach, right elbow and

index finger of his left hand. he was transferred to an

ambulance, which sped him to a hospital.

“mary, my mother! mary, my mother!” the holy father kept

repeating. his eyes were closed, and he was in great pain, at

the gemelli clinic the pope was rushed first to a tenth-floor

room reserved for a papal emergency and then to an operating

room. he’d lost a great deal of blood, and because his

condition was critical, last rites were administered.

the operation lasted five hours and 20 minutes. twenty two

inches of john paul

Ⅱ

’s intestine were removed. “hope

gradually returned during the

operation.” said dziwisz. “it

became clear that no vital organ had been hit and that he just

might survive.”

like the bullet that almost killed ronald reagan, this one had

passed a few millimeters from the aorta. “if it had hit, death

would have been inst

antaneous,” dziwisz observed. “it did not

touch any vital point. it was really miraculous.”

“one hand fired,” the pope said later, “and another hand

guided the bullet.”

the triggerman was apprehended almost immediately. he was

identified as mehmet ali agca, a turkish terrorist. agca had

publicly vowed to kill the pope during the potiff’s 1979 visit to

turkey.

in recent years, ever mindful of a need for dialogue with the

jews, john paul

Ⅱ

made the grand gesture of crossing the tiber

river to visit the main synagogue of rome, something no pope

had ever done before. as roman jews know, their community is

older than the oldest christian church. when saints peter and

paul came to rome, the torah was already being read and the

sabbath observed in the capital of the roman empire.

onlookers recall that when he delivered his speech in the

synagogue, john paul

Ⅱ

at times seemed close to breaking

down. once, as a boy, he’d gone to the synagogue in his

village with his father to a choir sing “ani maamin” (i believe),

which had been chanted by condemned jews in the death

camps on their way to the gas chambers. as the voice of the

choir swelled, the pope bent forward, his head bowed and his

hand covering his mouth.

despite john paul

Ⅱ

’s declining health, the last years of his

pontificate24 have seen a burst of activity. and though his

hand is increasingly weary as he raises it to bless the

faithful25, it points to a wider horizon.

当教皇在罗马时，他停下为总统的康复而祈 祷并同时向总统表示了

他本人的祝愿和希望。

突然简维茨听到一声震耳欲聋的巨响，广场上的鸽子四散飞去。紧

接着教皇靠着 他瘫倒下去。

简维茨说：

“

我知道教皇被击中了，可表面上没有血迹或伤口。于是

我问，

哪儿受伤了？

’

他答道 ，

‘

肚子上。

’”

教皇肚子上，右肘和左手食指都受了伤。他被抬上一辆救护车，迅

速送往医院。