战地记者(英中对照)

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。
战地记者
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.

一九四四年瑟堡争夺战之中,美国一辆坦克车遭德国炮弹击中,车上将士连忙跑到附近一个门口藏身,见那里有个也在躲避子弹的短小男人,就向他索取签名。
这并不奇怪。那人是美军记者厄恩利.派尔。他分担那些「以死亡为务」者的恐惧、痛苦、煎熬,所写专栏在七百份报刊发表,力求美国后方的人清楚了解美军的遭遇。
一九四五年,派尔的收入已是以十万元计。但他不能离弃战场的军人,觉得他们的事迹须人记述,所以前往太平洋,报道进攻冲绳岛的战事。四月十八日,他被日本机关枪击中,当场死去,享年四十四岁。

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*瑟堡是法国西北部的重要海港。