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A life in conflict: “Private War”
- This weekend, a new biopic opens in America about Marie Colvin, a Sunday Times correspondent killed six years ago in Syria while reporting on the civil war.
- biopic 名人传记片；传记电影
- correspondent 记者
- civil war 内战
- In the film, Rosamund Pike plays one of the most courageous journalists of the 21st century: Colvin escaped from Chechnya across a mountain range; refused to leave a UN compound alongside 1,500 refugees in East Timor as Indonesian troops descended; and lost her eye in Sri Lanka after a soldier threw a grenade her way.
- courageous 勇气；有胆量的；有勇气的
- mountain range 山脉
- compound 混合的
- Indonesian 印度尼西亚的
- troop 部队；军队
- grenade 手榴弹
- Driven by a compulsion to chronicle what she termed “humanity in extremis”, her final piece reported from the “widows’ basement” in Homs, the city she later died in, a cellar where 300 women and children sheltered as shells rained down outside.
- compulsion 强迫行为；强迫症；难以抗拒的冲动
- chronicle 把…载入编年史；按事件顺序记载
- humanity 人文；博爱；人性化
- extremis 终极改造；绝境
- shelter 保护；庇护；躲避；遮蔽
- Today, as newspapers ditch their expensive foreign correspondents, and as more people learn unreliable truths about conflicts from social media, Colvin’s type is needed more than ever.
- ditch 抛弃；摆脱；丢弃
- unreliable 不可靠的；不能信赖的
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