【4月12日】看軍聞學英語

■刀客

原文：

During a backyard barbecue in early April of last year, Moore's family challenged him to walk the entire length of the 25-meter （82-foot） driveway. After he made it to the end, his son-in-law encouraged him to keep going, offering to pay 1 pound for every lap and suggesting a goal of 100 laps by Moore's 100th birthday.

The challenge snowballed from there.

Moore thought he might be able to raise 1,000 pounds （$1,363） for the doctors and nurses who took care of him after he broke his hip, and his family used social media to publicize Captain Tom Moore's 100th birthday walk for the NHS. A local radio reporter called first, then national broadcasters. Soon, international media were waiting outside the garden gate.

中譯：

摩爾的家人去年4月初，在後院烤肉時，向他發出走完全長25公尺（82呎）車道戰帖，當他辦到之後，女婿鼓勵他繼續走下去，每走1圈即給付1英磅，並希望摩爾100歲生日那天，可以完成100圈的目標。

這個挑戰自此便如滾雪球般。

摩爾當時心想，或許能為他在髖骨骨折後，殷勤照顧的醫生及護士，募得1000英鎊（1363美元）；他的家人則利用社群媒體，以「摩爾上尉百歲誕辰為英國國民保健署而走活動」廣為宣傳。首先是1名地方廣播記者致電採訪，全國各廣播電台亦隨之跟進。不久，國際媒體紛於摩爾家的花園門口外守候。

－關鍵軍語－

※challenge:

To call to a contest of any kind.

※NHS:

Britain's National Health Service.

※ publicize:

To announce in a manner intended to reach a large audience.

例句：

The world media widely publicize the human rights situation in North Korea.

全球媒體大肆宣傳北韓的人權處境。