【正文】 ions and coordinated a military strategy which subsequently ensured Hitler39。Cicero, De Officiis Suggested Reading List ? The Winds of War 1971 ? War and Remembrance 1977 byHermanWouk ? The World Crisis (6 vols, 192331) ? The Second World War (6 vols, 194853) ? History of the English Speaking Peoples (4 vols, 195658) by Winston Churchill Some more important information in WW II ? God Save the Queen (1749) ? The StarSpangled Banner (1931) ? March of the Volunteers ? Munich Pact ? Dominions ? Commonwealth of Nations or British Commonwealth of Nations ? The British Empire broadcast ? adj. ? a broadcast speech。 depend on。 ? There has been a recrudescence of stealing in the big shops. ? to prevent the ~ of Nazism, Fascism and militarism ? ~ of influenza epidemic ? 4. recur (recurrence): occur again, repeatedly, or periodically。 kneel down in ~。 strengthen mentally or physically ? I was fortified by the knowledge that I was in a sympathetic house. ?To fortify one’s courage ? to fortify oneself against the cold ? to fortify a town against the enemy ? to fortify bread ? fortified milk ? fortified wine blood: ? blood poisoning ? 血液中毒 ? blood pressure ? 血壓 ? blood purge ? 血腥的清洗 ? blood serum ? 血清 ? bloodshed ? 流血 ,殺戮 ? blood sucker ? 吸血鬼 ? blood bank ? 血庫 ? bloodbath ? 血洗 ,大屠殺 ? bloodmobile ? 采血車 ? blood donor ? 獻血者 ? blood type ? 血型 ? blood money ? 血腥錢 ,補償?shù)腻X lust: great desire ?n. blood ~, carnal ~, fiendish / wicked ~ ?the ~ of batter/ conquest / creation / the flesh ?the ~ for fame and fortune / gold / life ?v. ~ after riches / power / women ?gratify one’s lust ?The lust of men must not be overdone. impel: drive, force, urge do sth.。 aircraft retract wheels ? Even when he was threatened with death, the political prisoner refused to retract his speeches against the government. ?immemorial: extending back beyond memory。 ? On reverting our eyes, every step presented some new and admirable scene. ? He’s stopped taking drugs now , but he may revert to taking them again. ? 2. Return (return): e or go back to a place/person。 stop sleeping ?She woke up feeling better. ?What time do you usually wake up? ?Bears wake up in the spring after a winter of hibernation. ?Don’t wake the baby. ?What time do you want to be waked? ?He needs some interest to wake him up. ?It waked me up to the facts. ?Wake up and smell the coffee. waken: poetic/literary term for wake ?Please waken me at 6 am. ?I wakened (up) early on the day of our mencement ceremony. ?I was wakened by their heroic struggles. ?In order to waken the reader’s interest, the library authority planned to arrange some authors of the newly published books to deliver some lectures on their works. awaken: rouse from sleep。 supreme excellence consists in breaking the enemy’s resistance without fighting. – SunTzu, The Art Of War “不戰(zhàn)而屈人之兵，善之善者也”。Book One Lesson Five Speech on Hitler’s Invasion of the . ?Germany ?. ?Hitler’s Invasion of the . ?Nonaggression Pact Speech on Hitler’s Invasion of the . ? In March 1939, Britain and France started talks with the Soviet Union on possible cooperation against Fascist Germany. ? At that time Britain under Chamberlain and France under Daladier were pursuing a policy of appeasement. ?After three months’ fruitless negotiation, the talks were broken off. ?Then in order to protect itself, the Soviet Union signed the nonaggression pact with Hitler’s Germany on August 23, 1939. ?On Sept. 1, 1939, Hitler invaded Poland. ?On Sept. 17, Soviet troops also crossed the border and moved into Poland, taking 77,000 sm of territory. ?The RussoFinnish war began on Nov. 1, 1939 and ended in March 1940. ?The Finns sued for peace and ceded an area of over16,000 sm to the Soviet Union. ?In June 1940, Soviet troops occupied the three Baltic states （拉脫維亞，愛沙尼亞，立陶宛，芬蘭） and part of Rumania. ?Before the fall of Poland, British intelligence officers managed to get hold of a German coding machine and a group of codebreaking experts, called the Bletchly Park group, soon discovered how the machine worked. ?With the help of this machine, the British were able to decipher all German coded messages. ? So on June 6, the British had already learnt that Hitler was to attack Russia and so passed on a warning to the Soviet Union, which was unheeded. ?On June 20, two days before the invasion, Churchill worked on a speech to be broadcast to the world when the invading forces rolled into Russia. ?The speech was carefully posed, full of grave themes and weighty arguments. ?Churchill polished the text on June 22, 1941 in his Elizabethan manor at Chequers. Union Flag ?Union Jack ?British Meteor Flag British politician and prime minister of the United Kingdom ?Full name: ? Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill ? (18741965) ? His names testify to the richness of his historic inheritance: ? Winston, after the Royalist family with whom the Churchill married before the English Civil War。 ?“ War is peace。 cause to stop sleeping ?Anna was awakened by the telephone. ?He sighed but did not awaken. ?The film helped to awaken many to the horrors of the apartheid. ?His suspicions were awakened. ?We must awaken the people to the dangers facing our country. ?Her piercing words awakened him to a sense of position. ?The university students have been awakened to the importance of politics. news ? Good news goes on crutches. ? News flies apace.＝ Bad news travels quickly. ? A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on. – Sir Winston Churchill ? That is no news. ? break the new