温斯顿·丘吉尔/ Winston Churchill
温斯顿·丘吉尔（1874—1965），英国著名的政治家、作家。丘吉尔生于牛津贵族家庭，毕业于桑赫斯特军事学院，1895—1900年先后参加侵印战争和英布战争。他曾连续当选为自由党和保守党议员，历任政府要职。第二次世界大战爆发后，他于1940年出任首相，并连任两届（1940—1945年及1951—1955年）。
任内，他领导英国人民对德作战，直至胜利。他在文学上造诣很深，曾于1953年获诺贝尔文学奖。
Ace in the Hole
Understand these new words before you listen to this article.
1. scroll [skr??l] n. 纸卷，卷轴
2. pedagogue ['ped?ɡ?ɡ] n. 教师，卖弄学问的教师
3. destiny ['destini] n. 命运; 天命; 天数
As the great scroll of history unrolls, many complicated incidents occur which it is difficult to introduce effectively into the pattern of the likes and dislikes of the epoch in which we live.
The human story does not always unfold like a mathematical calculation on the principle that two and two make four. Sometimes in life they make five or minus three; and sometimes the blackboard topples down in the middle of the sum and leaves the class in disorder and the pedagogue with a black eye.
Science, which now offers us a golden age with one hand, offers at the same time with the other the doom of all that we have built up inch by inch since the Stone Age and the dawn of any human annals. My faith is in the high progressive destiny of man. I do not believe that we are to be flung back into abysmal darkness of fiercesome discoveries which human genius has made let us make sure that they are our servants, but not our masters.
Its place in the healing of the sick, and in giving more food and leisure for life. When it helps the strong crush the weak, and rob those who are asleep, it is using truth for impious ends. Those who are thus sacrilegious will suffer and be punished, for their own weapons will be turned against them.