古德明英语军事小故事：解 放 之 后(中英对照)
古德明《征服英语》之英语军事故事，古德明，香港英语教育作家，他开了一个《征服英语专栏》，在专栏中专门用英语写了世界近代史上的军事小故事，用英语讲述历史中那些惊心动魄的战争。解 放 之 后
"amid the celebrations and the darker scenes of death and looting," american journalist david remnick wrote in the wake of the war in iraq in 2003, "the indelible image and photo op of the fall of baghdad was the toppling of saddam's statue on firdos square, an image that could not fail to echo the destruction of similarly forbidding icons in moscow more than a decade ago.
"and yet that resonance should be deep and instructive: the initial fireworks blast of promise in moscow soon settled down into years of painful transformation. in some of the states of the former soviet union, autocrats still reign. 'when smashing monuments,' the polish satirist stanislaw lec once remarked, 'save the pedestals---they always come in handy.' "
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