古德明英語軍事小故事：戰(zhàn)地記者 (中英對照)
古德明《征服英語》之英語軍事故事，古德明，香港英語教育作家，他開了一個《征服英語專欄》，在專欄中專門用英語寫了世界近代史上的軍事小故事，用英語講述歷史中那些驚心動魄的戰(zhàn)爭。
戰(zhàn)地記者
during the battle of cherbourg,* 1944, the crew of an american tank, hit by a german shell, scrambled to a nearby doorway for cover. there they met a small man who was also ducking bullets. they asked for his autograph.
that was not unusual. the man was ernie pyle, the gi's reporter. he shared the fears, the pain, and the suffering of the men"who do the dying". in his column, which ran in 700 publications, he made sure that the folks back home knew exactly what their fighting men were going through.
by 1945, pyle was earning a six-figure income. but he could not desert the men whose stories needed telling, so he headed to the pacific for the invasion of okinawa. on 18 april, he was hit by japanese machine-gun fire, and died instantly. he was forty-four.
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