新视野大学英语读写教程听力 第二册 unit10a_new

[07:02.03]who rose day after day and night after night
[07:08.29]to meet the flocks of Nazi bombers
[07:13.26]The pilots in the RAF reached the limits of exhaustion
[07:20.32]and then went beyond those limits, still fighting.
[07:26.58]But the people of London were also in the front lines,
[07:32.34]and they did not have the satisfaction of being able to fight back
[07:39.11]They couldn't reach up and smash the enemy planes
[07:45.05]They had to dig quickly in cellars
[07:50.09]to rescue their friends who had been buried underneath the wreckage
[07:56.46]They had to put out endless fires.
[08:01.43]They had to stand firm and take whatever the enemy threw at them
[08:08.88]In a broadcast on October 1, 1940, Murrow declared:
[08:17.63]"Mark it down that these people are both brave and patient,
[08:25.08]that all are equal under the bomb,
[08:29.44]that this is a war of speed and organization,
[08:35.20]and that whichever political system best provides for the defense
[08:43.08]and decency of the little man will win."
[08:49.81]Murrow's projection of eventual victory for the ordinary people
[08:57.37]proved to be accurate.
[09:01.44]The Nazi powers were finally defeated by the Allied nations