【TED】我在战火纷飞的加沙做报导

Love English 2 2022-12-23

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#英语演讲 35 个

#ted 50 个

#加沙 1 个

本期TED演讲者Ameera Harouda女士来自战火纷飞的加沙地带，她没有选择逃离那里，因为那依然有她挚爱的土地,人民和国家。

每当听到一声炮响时，她想到是如何在第一时间到达事出地将最新真实的故事挖掘和报道。让我们共同聆听她的故事。

深处战乱的加沙，她冒着生命危险充当干预调停者（fixer），帮助新闻记者披露大量有关加沙的新闻，为的只是让世人更多地了解加沙，而这一切是否值得？

Ameera Harouda: Why I put myself in danger to tell the stories of Gaza

Hello. This is my first trip, first time in life I'm outside of the walls of Gaza. I'm so happy to be here.

◾Gazaˈgä-zə, ˈga-: A city of southwest Asia in the Gaza Strip, a narrow coastal area along the Mediterranean Sea adjoining Israel and Egypt. The territory was part of the British mandate for Palestine (1917-1948), passed to Egypt in 1949, and was occupied by Israel in 1967. Palestinian autonomy was promised in the 1979 Israeli-Egyptian peace treaty but has not yet been achieved. The city of Gaza was one of the five major Philistine city-kingdoms. Population, 118,272.

加沙：西南亚一城市，位于加沙走廊，一狭窄沿海区，沿地中海分布，靠近以色列和埃及。其领土原是英国一部分，授权巴勒斯坦人管理（1917-1948年），1949年转给埃及，1967年被以色列占领。巴勒斯坦人的独立建国在1979年两伊协定中有了许诺，但仍未实现。加沙城是5个主要非利人城邦国之一。人口118,272。

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My ambition always was to be a pilot, to fly a plane, to feel free to fly the sky, to touch the sky. But that didn't happen. Simply, I live in Gaza, there is no airport. All borders are closed on every side. We live in one of the biggest prisons in the world. The only thing I can do is just to look up to the sky. On some days, we are lucky if we have electricity for four or five hours. When it's cold, we make a fire on the front or on the roof of our homes. Sometimes we make food, too.

My job in Gaza is to arrange everything for journalists who come to my homeland to tell the stories about what's going on in Gaza. Many mornings, I had to go to the border area to collect a journalist. If anything should happen to the journalist, or if the journalist decides to cover a story the government doesn't want us to cover, bad things could happen.

◾arrange: If you arrange something for someone, you make it possible for them to have it or to do it. 安排；准备

◾collect: to go somewhere in order to take sb / sth away 领取；收走；接走

Navigatingthrough my country helping journalists, filmmakers, news crews, is my working life. I believe my success comes from building a relationship not only with journalists and the news crews, but also with the communities in the Gaza Strip. These communities who don't want their stories to be told, I never looked tothem as stories or numbers. But like me, they are human beings.

◾navigate: to find which way you need to go when you are travelling from one place to another（为…）导航，指引方向

◾look to: If you look to someone or something for a particular thing that you want, you expect or hope that they will provide it. 寄望；指望；依靠

I have built up many relationships over 10 years. And guess what? This gives me the chance to get access topeople, to stories that others can't. In some certain situations, I feel, as a woman, I have more power. Many male journalists in my society, they want to cover a storyabout drug addictionin my country. That problem started when the Gaza tunnelwas being built. With the siegeon Gaza, tunnels brought people all the basic needs like food, building material, other stuff we needed. But not anymore, because the Egyptian side floodedthem up with water and they are not working anymore. Drugs were being smuggled, and many young people got addicted, too. In the tradition of the Palestinian society, it's forbidden for men to enter the household. So, no male journalists get the story. But I did.

◾siege: A siege is a military or police operation in which soldiers or police surround a place in order to force the people there to come out or give up control of the place. (军队或警察对某地的)围困，包围，围攻

◾flood: If you flood a place with a particular type of thing, or if a particular type of thing floods a place, the place becomes full of so many of them that it cannot hold or deal with any more. (使)充满;(使)充斥

◾Palestinian: Palestinian means belonging or relating to the region between the River Jordan and the Mediterranean Sea which used to be called Palestine, or to the Arabs who come from this region. 巴勒斯坦的；巴勒斯坦人的

I have a wonderful husband, a wonderful husband who supports me despite all the criticism he gets from the society. He's at home now with my two kids, and I have another one that's growing in here.

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When I'm working, I call him every two hours, and he knows if he doesn't hear from me, he should call my contact, the one who gives me access to the story, which is the one who I trust.

One of the times in Gaza, during the kidnapping of the British journalist Alan Johnston, I was asked by an American magazine to set up a meetingwith the kidnappers in Gaza, and I did. The journalist covering the story and I were asked to meet outside of his hotel. They came, they picked us up in a black vanwith black windows, they were wearing masks on that day. And they drove us away, far away in the middle of a field. They took our cell phones and we did the interview with the kidnapper outside in that field. I was so scared that day, a day I will never forget.

◾Alan Johnston: (Wikipedia) Alan Graham Johnston (born 17 May 1962) is a British journalist working for the BBC. He has been the BBC's correspondent in Uzbekistan, Afghanistan, the Gaza Strip and Italy. He is based in London.

Johnston was kidnapped by a group of Palestinian militants on 12 March 2007, and released nearly four months later on 4 July, after Hamas' seizure of control in Gaza.

阿伦·庄士敦或艾伦·约翰斯顿（Alan Graham Johnston，1962年5月17日－）英国广播公司记者，曾经驻守阿富汗、加沙和乌兹别克。当地时间2007年3月12日，他在加沙被绑架。至3月26日，他成为2年以来被囚禁在加沙时间最长的外国人。他的囚禁，惹来巴勒斯坦许多示威，亦令到英国政府第一次需要跟哈马斯成员会面。7月4日，哈马斯的电视台宣布，约翰斯顿当天凌晨获释。

◾van: An enclosed boxlike motor vehicle having rear or side doors and side panels especially for transporting people. 运货车：带有后部或两侧的门和侧窗的，尤其用来运载人的封闭厢式汽车

So, why do I do what I do? I do it because I believe if I didn't, a huge part of the story about Gaza will be missing. There are some more stories I could tell you about my country. And not all of them are bad.I love my country, despite the terrible situation we live in — siege, poverty, unemployment — but there is life.There are people who are dreamers and amazing people full of energy. We have wonderful music, and a great music school. We have parkour dancerswho dance in the rubbleof their homes.And Gaza is the only place in the Arab world where Muslims and Christians live in strong brotherhood.

◾parkour: (Wikipedia) Parkour (French pronunciation: [paʁkuʁ]) is a training discipline using movement that developed from military obstacle course training. Practitioners aim to get from one point to another in a complex environment, without assistive equipment and in the fastest and most efficient way possible. Parkour includes running, climbing, swinging, vaulting, jumping, rolling, quadrupedal movement, and other movements as deemed most suitable for the situation. Parkour's development from military training gives it some aspects of a non-combative martial art.

◾parkour dance: 酷跑街舞

◾rubbleˈrə-bəl: the piles of broken stone and bricks, etc. that are left when a building falls down or is destroyed （房屋倒塌或被毁后留下的）瓦砾堆，碎砖烂瓦，碎石

◾brotherhood: Brotherhood is the affection and loyalty that you feel for people who you have something in common with. 兄弟情谊；手足之情

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During the time of war, the hardest part for me is leaving the house early in the morning, leaving my children. I take a picture of them everyday because I never know if I will make it back to them. Being a fixerand a journalist is difficult and dangerous in Gaza. But when I hear the sound of the shellingor the sound of the bombing, I just head straight towardit, because I want to be there first, because these stories should be told.

◾fixer: [Informal] A person who uses influence or makes arrangements for another, especially by improper or unlawful means.【非正式用语】干预调停者：运用影响力去安排别人的人，尤其是以不当、不合法手段者

◾shelling: the firing of shells from large guns 炮击，炮轰

When my children were small and we heard the sound of the war, I used to tell them that they were fireworks. Now they are older, they understand. I do have terrible nightmares because of all that I witnessed during war times, especially these lifeless bodies of young children. I still remember a little girl, her name is Hala. She's the only survivor from her family. Her picture will be with me forever. I will never forget her.

I'm proud that I can stand here and be here today with you. I'm proud that I can tell you stories, sad and happy, stories about my small corner of the world, Gaza. I'm proud that I am the first female fixer working in Gaza. And the funny thing is they call me Mr. Ramboin Gaza.

◾Rambo: (Wikipedia) Rambo is a film series based on the David Morrell novel First Blood and starring Sylvester Stallone as John Rambo, a troubled Vietnam War veteran and former U.S. Army Special Forces soldier who is skilled in many aspects of survival, weaponry, hand-to-hand combat and guerrilla warfare. The series consists of the films First Blood (1982), Rambo: First Blood Part II (1985), Rambo III (1988), and Rambo (2008).

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I hope one day, I will get the chance to tell the stories of all other women, all other amazing women I know in my country. I hope that one day I can help other women in my country to be fixers like me. And of course sometimes, I feel I can't do this work anymore, it's just too much for me. But I remember these words: "Don't limit your challenge, but challenge your limit. Don't allow others to stand in front of your dreams."

Thank you.

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