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1964年7月31日,CIA报告中国的饥荒和局部动荡,更新了数字,是一份
稍具总结性的报告,《中国国内的崩溃:迈向1964》。以下是第22页第
一段节选,适于初三以上英文水平:
"The basic cause of these uprisings was, of course, the severe shortage of food-reaching famine in the disaster areas of East and North of China. Confirming by Chou En-Lai (即周恩来)admitted in Feb 1961 that 'living conditions were critical'.... More,Over, Mao Tse-Tung (即毛泽东)himself was to suggest (unwittingly) that the total of these 'unnatural deaths' exceeded five million in 1960-1961."
CIA的报告还是很讲究的,预测很有分寸,充分构想了
下半年的惨状。讲解只限于初三以上的英文水平能理解:
1. 转折句的关键在but以后
2. subsistence mean minimal resource only for survival
Bare=almost not/without
Bitterest suffering=famine
“Widespread famine does not appear to be at hand, but in some provinces many people are now on a bare subsistence diet and the bitterest suffering lies immediately ahead in the period before the June harvests...”
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