【前期3週間前】Listening Resources#1

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 1回目はBBC World Service Witnessから

Japanese Soldier

 http://www.bbc.co.uk/podcasts/series/witnes
1/24の回。見つからなければShow all episodesから探せる。

It's 40 years since a Japanese soldier was found hiding in the jungle on the pacific island of Guam. He spent 3 decades living in the wild waiting to be rescued by the Japanese army.

It's January 24, 1972, almost 30 years after the end of second World War, but on the tiny pacific island of Guam alone Japanese soldier suddenly comes face to face with local hunters. 

Clearly he's panicked. Because if he was taken and (?) prisoners of war, that's the greatest shame for the Japanese soldier, and actually, in fact he cried shouting that please kill me.

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Vocabulary

• decade 10年
• prisoner （囚人・）ここでは「捕虜」か
• ordeal : a prolonged painful or horrific experience
• passage of time : 時間の経過
• devastate : 荒廃する（make ** devastated）
• dwell : 住む