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Nancy Wake 南希威克 Nancy Wakesaboteur and special agent, diedon August 7th, aged 98. 南希威克二战间功勋卓越的英国间谍特工，8月7日去世，享年98岁。 Convivial, and not averse to a drink, Nancy Wake could often be found cheering up acocktail bar. In the late 1940s, and again towards the end of her life, it might have been theAmerican Bar of the Stafford Hotel, just across the road from The Economists offices inLondon. In 1940, when she was living as a newlywed in Vichy France, it could have beenanother American Bar, this one in the H?tel du Louvre et de la Paix in Marseilles. It was achance encounter here with an English officer, interned by the French authorities but thatday on parole, which led to her membership of the resistance, and then to her role as anagent of the British Special Operations Executive in occupied France. Of the 39 SOE womeninfiltrated into France, 11 of whom would die in concentration camps, she was perhaps themost redoubtable. 热衷于聚会派对，从不拒绝美酒的南希威克经常出现在鸡尾酒会。到她生命的最后一段时光也是如此，可能她就出现在伦敦《经济学家》杂志社办公大楼对面的斯塔福耶酒店的美国酒馆。上世纪40年代时亦是如此，1940年她刚刚结婚，嫁到维希政权下的法国，那时她经常出现在另一家美国酒馆，在巴黎卢浮旅馆里或者在马赛和平旅馆里。在那里，她很偶然地碰到一位被法国当局保释的在囚英国军官。 这位军官后来带领她加入了抵抗德国纳粹的运动中，也使她成为了英国特别行动处驻占领的法国的一位特工。而在特别行动处39位渗入法国的女特工中，11名没有在德国纳粹集中营中丧生，而她也许是其中最令人敬畏的那个。 | 
