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2015考研英语阅读英文原刊《经济学人》:奥萨马本拉登

2014-09-24 17:38:17来源:新东方在线编辑整理

  Pure rage was all he needed, roused especially by the Israeli invasion of Lebanon in 1982 andthe arrival of American troops in Saudi Arabia, on the holy ground of the two mosques in Meccaand Medina, in 1990. Hatred of America had tormented him for as long as he could remember.To drive out the infidels, to establish Palestine and destroy Israel, to eject the “heretics” whoruled in Saudi Arabia, to purify Islam itself with Wahhabist fundamentalism, were his ambitions.If they boiled down to a doctrine, it was a violent form of jihad, the holy duty of all Muslims, tomake God’s word victorious; or just what he called “reciprocity”, an eye for an eye.

  他需要的就是炽热的愤怒。1982年以色列入侵黎巴嫩,或者1990年美国军队进入沙特,驻扎在麦加和麦地那的两座被视为圣地的清真寺,这样的情景所燃起的炽热怒火最遂他的心意。自记事以来,对美国的仇恨一直煎熬着他。他踌躇满志,一心要驱逐异教徒,建立巴勒斯坦,消灭以色列,驱逐统治沙特的“异教徒”,并使伊斯兰得到瓦哈比教派原教旨主义的净化。 如果所有这些归结于某一个主义的话,那就是暴力形式的圣战运动,而圣战则是所有穆斯林的天职,旨在使真主阿拉的意愿获胜,或者就是他所说的“一报还一报”,即以牙还牙。

  Facing the assassins

  直面刺客

  Somewhere, according to one of his five wives, was aman who loved sunflowers, and eating yogurt withhoney; who took his children to the beach, and letthem sleep under the stars; who enjoyed the BBCWorld Service and would go hunting with friendseach Friday, sometimes mounted, like the Prophet,on a white horse. He liked the comparison. Yet thebest thing in his life, he said, was that his jihads haddestroyed the myth of all-conquering superpowers.

  根据他五个妻子其中一位的说法,在他内心的某个角落里,栖居着一个这样的男人:爱向日葵,也爱喝加蜂蜜的酸奶,会带着孩子去沙滩,也会让他们酣睡于星空之下。爱BBC世界新闻,也会在每个周五和朋友结伴去打猎,有时候,他会像先知一般,蹬上一匹白马。他喜欢这一比较。但是他说,他一生最美好的事是看到自己的圣战组织颠覆了所向披靡的超级大国们的神话。

  The price set on his head for more than a decade never bothered him, for Allah determinedevery breath in his body, and could ensure that the bombs dropped on his hideout at ToraBora, or on his convoy through the mountains, never touched him. His martyr’s time wouldcome when it came. The difference between pure Muslims and Americans, he said, was thatAmericans loved life, whereas Muslims loved death. Whether or not he resisted when theCrusaders’ special forces arrived, their bullets could only exalt him.

  十多年来美军一直重金悬赏要取他的首级,他从不为此困扰。因为真主阿拉主宰着他的性命,即便藏匿于塔拉波拉或者在护卫簇拥下行走于群山中时,有炸弹落下,真主都能保证他毫发无伤。他的殉道之时会自然而然地到来。他称,纯粹的穆斯林和美国人之间的差别就在于美国人热爱生命,而穆斯林向往死亡。所以,当远征军的特种部队兵临城下,对他而言,抵抗与否,无关紧要,因为他们的子弹只会给他带来荣耀。

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