古德明英语军事小故事：世界大战中的 V运动 (中英对照)
古德明《征服英语》之英语军事故事，古德明，香港英语教育作家，他开了一个《征服英语专栏》，在专栏中专门用英语写了世界近代史上的军事小故事，用英语讲述历史中那些惊心动魄的战争。
世界大战中的 v运动
the v sign, symbolising victory, was devised as an emblem of the resistance by two belgians working for the bbc belgian service. from january 1941, the bbc started urging listeners in belgium to go out under cover of darkness and chalk the v sign on doors, walls and pavements. the campaign soon spread to other european countries. the v proved to be brilliantly adaptable. the sign could be made with the fingers raised, or tapped out in its morse form(three dots and one dash) on a teacup, say, under the nose of the occupiers.
haunted by the v campaign, the germans responded by attempting to appropriate the symbol for themselves. it was made to stand for viktoria-- an antiquated teutonic* word-- and they began to print posters of their own bearing a huge white v.
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