溫斯頓·丘吉爾/ Winston Churchill
溫斯頓·丘吉爾（1874—1965），英國著名的政治家、作家。丘吉爾生於牛津貴族家庭，畢業於桑赫斯特軍事學院，1895—1900年先後參加侵印戰爭和英布戰爭。他曾連續當選為自由黨和保守黨議員，曆任政府要職。第二次世界大戰爆發後，他於1940年出任首相，並連任兩屆（1940—1945年及1951—1955年）。
任內，他領導英國人民對德作戰，直至勝利。他在文學上造詣很深，曾於1953年獲諾貝爾文學獎。
Ace in the Hole
Understand these new words before you listen to this article.
1. scroll [skr??l] n. 紙卷，卷軸
2. pedagogue ['ped?ɡ?ɡ] n. 教師，賣弄學問的教師
3. destiny ['destini] n. 命運; 天命; 天數
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.