VOA慢速英語：那些2017年離開我們的人

Those We Said Goodbye to in 2017

那些2017年離開我們的人

They made you cry and they made you laugh. Some united a country and others divided its people.

他們讓你哭，讓你笑。有些人讓一個(gè)國家團(tuán)結(jié)起來，有些則讓這個(gè)國家的人民分裂。

Here is a look at some of the well-known people who died in the past year:

以下是過去一年去世的一些知名人士。

Chuck Berry and Fats Domino were known as founding fathers of rock ‘n' roll. Musicians Tom Petty and Greg Allman led their musical groups to the top of popular music charts. Glen Campbell was known for country music and Al Jarreau for jazz. They also were among the well-known musicians who died in 2017, leaving a void in music.

查克·貝里(Chuck Berry)和費(fèi)茲·多明諾(Fats Domino)被稱為搖滾樂的創(chuàng)始人之一。音樂家湯姆·佩蒂(Tom Petty)和格雷格·奧爾曼(Greg Allman)帶領(lǐng)他們的樂團(tuán)進(jìn)入了流行音樂榜的榜單。格倫·坎貝爾(Glen Campbell)以鄉(xiāng)村音樂著名，艾爾·賈諾(Al Jarreau)則是爵士音樂。這些也都是2017年離世的著名音樂人，他們的離世給音樂留下了一片空白。

Jerry Lewis, Don Rickles and Dick Gregory left their own mark on comedy. But the story of the 1960s could not be told without Hugh Hefner and Charles Manson.

杰里·劉易斯(Jerry Lewis)、唐·瑞克斯(Don Rickles)和迪克·格雷戈里(Dick Gregory)在喜劇上留下了自己的印記。但是說起上世紀(jì)六十年代，就不得不提到休·赫夫納(Hugh Hefner)和查爾斯·曼森(Charles Manson)。

Hefner founded Playboy magazine and was credited with helping to start the sexual revolution in the 1960s. The decade ended with Manson becoming the face of evil across America. He directed his followers to kill several people in Los Angeles, including American actress Sharon Tate.

赫夫納創(chuàng)辦了《花花公子》雜志，他也被認(rèn)為幫助開啟了上世紀(jì)60年代的性解放。這個(gè)十年隨著曼森成為整個(gè)美國的惡魔面孔而結(jié)束，他在洛杉磯指令他的追隨者殺死了一些人，其中就包括女演員莎朗·泰特(Sharon Tate)。

Notable political figures also died this year. Former German Chancellor Helmut Kohl reunited East and West Germany, a country divided by the Cold War between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. He helped put Germany at the heart of the European Union.

今年也有些顯要的政界人士去世了。前德國總理赫爾穆特·科爾(Helmut Kohl)重新統(tǒng)一了東德和西德，這個(gè)國家在冷戰(zhàn)期間被美國和蘇聯(lián)分裂開來。科爾幫助德國成為了歐盟的核心。

Former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega who was ousted by a U.S. military action also died in 2017.

曾被美國軍事行動(dòng)驅(qū)逐的前巴拿馬獨(dú)裁者曼紐爾·諾列加(Manuel Noriega)也于2017年去世。

Ali Abdullah Saleh was Yemen's president for 33 years. He stepped down in 2012 during the Arab Spring uprisings that swept through the Middle East. He was killed by the Houthie rebels this year.

阿里·阿卜杜拉·薩利赫(Ali Abdullah Saleh)擔(dān)任也門總統(tǒng)長達(dá)33年。2012年他在席卷中東的暴動(dòng)期間下臺(tái)，今年他被胡塞叛軍殺害。

And Cardinal Bernard Law, the former archbishop of Boston, died at age 86. His failure to stop sexual abuse of children by religious workers brought a serious crisis to the American Catholic church.

波士頓前大主教、樞機(jī)主教伯納德·洛(Bernard Law)去世，享年86歲。他沒有阻止宗教工作人員對(duì)兒童的性虐待，給美國天主教會(huì)帶來了嚴(yán)重危機(jī)。

Fans said goodbye to film and television stars in 2017.

粉絲們?cè)?017年告別了一些影視明星。

Mary Tyler Moore changed how women appeared on television in her popular program "The Mary Tyler Moore Show."

瑪麗·泰勒·摩爾(Mary Tyler Moore)在她的熱門節(jié)目《瑪麗·泰勒·摩爾秀》中改變了女性在電視上的表現(xiàn)方式。

Roger Moore was known for playing James Bond and Adam West played the first "batman" on television.

羅杰·摩爾(Roger Moore)因扮演詹姆斯·邦德(James Bond)而出名，而亞當(dāng)·韋斯特(Adam West)在電視上扮演了第一位“蜘蛛俠”。

Haruo Nakajima played the role of Godzilla in the original 1954 classic movie. Godzilla has gone on to star in movies for more than 60 years.

中島春雄(Haruo Nakajima)在一部1954年首創(chuàng)的經(jīng)典電影中扮演了哥斯拉的角色。哥斯拉在電影中擔(dān)任主角已經(jīng)超過60年。

Other notable people who died in 2017 include:

其它2017年去世的顯要人士還包括：

Zhou Youguang, a Chinese language expert who died at age 111. Zhou is considered the father of modern China's Pinyin writing system. The system uses the Roman alphabet to represent Chinese characters based on their pronunciation.

周有光，中國語言專家，享年111歲。周有光被認(rèn)為是現(xiàn)代中國的拼音文字系統(tǒng)之父。拼音系統(tǒng)使用羅馬字母，基于漢字發(fā)音來表示漢字。

Sumiteru Taniguchi spent his life seeking to stop nuclear weapons. He was burned severely in 1945 when an atomic bomb was used on his hometown of Nagasaki, Japan.

谷口稜曄(Sumiteru Taniguchi )窮其一生試圖阻止核武器。1945年當(dāng)一枚原子彈在他的家鄉(xiāng)日本長崎市引爆時(shí)，他被嚴(yán)重?zé)齻?/p>

Norma McCorvey was the "Jane Roe" in the famous U.S. Supreme Court decision that legalized abortion, known as Roe versus Wade. She later became an opponent of abortion.

諾瑪·麥科威(Norma McCorvey)是美國最高法院使墮胎合法化的著名判決中的簡(jiǎn)·羅伊(Jane Roe)，這起案件也被稱之為羅伊訴韋德案。她后來成為了反墮胎者。

Carl Clark was awarded a medal of honor some sixty years after his bravery during World War II. Clark died at age 100.

卡爾·克拉克(Carl Clark)憑借二戰(zhàn)期間的英勇表現(xiàn)在大約60年后獲得了一枚榮譽(yù)勛章。克拉克享年100歲。

And Otto Warmbier was an American college student who was jailed in North Korea for more than one year. Warmbier fell into a coma and was released by North Korean officials. He died shortly after his return to the U.S. at the age of 22.

而奧托·瓦姆比爾(Otto Warmbier)是一名在朝鮮被判入獄一年多的美國大學(xué)生。瓦姆比爾陷入昏迷狀態(tài)并被朝鮮官員釋放。他在返回美國后不久去世，享年22歲。

I'm Jonathan Evans.

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