2024年4月28日发(作者：)

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英语专业考研 MTI翻译硕士 专四专八 日语考研等

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Lech Kaczynski

莱赫•卡钦斯基

Lech Kaczynski, president of Poland, died in an air crash on April 10t

h, aged 60

波兰总统莱赫•卡钦斯基4月10日坠机身亡，享年60岁

CHARMING in private, awkward in public, scrupulously honest and a bit

out of touch, Lech Kaczynski exemplified the strengths and weaknesses of th

环球时代

英语专业考研 MTI翻译硕士 专四专八 日语考研等

e political milieu from which he came. His formative years were the long ble

ak decades of Poland’s communist era, first in Warsaw and then in provinci

al Gdansk. He and his twin brother, Jaroslaw, idolised their father, a veteran

of the Polish Home Army, which fought an underground war against the Ger

man occupiers, only to be persecuted by the Soviet “liberators”. Each night

at bedtime, the two boys used to sing the country’s national anthem: “Pol

and is not yet lost, while we still live.”

莱赫•卡钦斯基私下里充满魅力，大庭广众却举止笨拙，严谨正直，有点儿跟时代脱节，

在他身上，体现了他所出身的政治环境的种种优缺点。这种性格成型的日子，要追溯到波

兰萧瑟黯淡、长达数十年的共产主义时代，先是在华沙，继而在格但斯克省。卡钦斯基与

孪生兄弟雅罗斯瓦夫，无比崇拜他们的父亲，一位波兰本土军老兵。这支军队曾与德国占

领者进行地下斗争，结果却横遭苏联“解放者”迫害。以往在每晚临睡时，两个男孩常常

哼唱波兰国歌：“我们一息尚存，波兰就绝不会灭亡。”

As 12-year-olds the twins starred in a popular Polish fantasy film, “The

Two Who Stole the Moon”, though in real life the swotty duo had little in

common with the scamps they portrayed. Both became academic lawyers, Le

ch specialising in labour law. That proved useful during the Solidarity era, wh

en he advised the opposition trade union’s leaders in their talks with the c

ommunist boss-class. After the imposition of martial law in December 1981,

he was interned for ten months.