时间:2019-01-27 作者:英语课 分类:新西兰英语


英语课

  During the last week, three major murder trials came to an end. The first one to end, last Wednesday, was a trial of an immigrant 1 from Zimbabwe, George Gwase, for the murder of his niece, 10-year old Charlene, in Christchurch. He was found Not Guilty which means he was acquitted 2. The following day, Chris Kahui was acquitted of the murder of his 3-month old twin sons, in Auckland. And on Saturday, a jury 3 found Lipine Sila, Guilty of the murder of two 16-year old girls, and of injuring 8 others, when he drove his car into a crowd outside a party in Christchurch a year ago.

All these events were very sad as they involved babies, a child and two teenagers. They all took a long time to come to trial. For example, the Kahui twins died nearly 2 years ago. The cases were all heard before a judge and 12 members of a jury and all the trials lasted a long time: Chris Kahui’s trial lasted 6 weeks. But the verdict 4 of the jury took a very different length of time. The jury in the case of Lipine Sila took nearly 3? days while the jury in the case of Chris Kahui took 10 minutes to decide.

In the Gwase case, Charlene died in January 2007, 16 months ago. Her parents had died of AIDS. She was HIV positive. Gwase’s lawyer, the lawyer for the defence, argued that she died from AIDS. The Gwase family did not try to get treatment for her HIV.

In the case of Sila, he admitted that he drove the car which killed the two girls but he said he drove in panic, afraid that others would attack him. He had just been in a fight outside the party. Did he mean to hit those people with his car? Was it anger or panic? He was hoping the jury would decide this was manslaughter, that he didn’t mean to do it, but in the end the jury decided 5 it was murder.

The Kahui case was a very sad one. Someone abused 6 those children very violently, many times, but the 9 adults living in the house at the time refused to talk to the police. The police arrested the father, saying he was the most likely person, but the jury thought there was not enough evidence to be sure. It is possible that many of the adults were responsible for the deaths but maybe we will never know.



adj.(从国外)移来的,移民的;n.移民,侨民
  • Life in the USA was very hard for almost every new immigrant.美国的生活几乎对每一个新移民都很艰难。
  • I'd like to obtain some information about applying for an immigrant visa.我想取一些申请移民签证的资料。
宣判…无罪( acquit的过去式和过去分词 ); 使(自己)作出某种表现
  • The jury acquitted him of murder. 陪审团裁决他谋杀罪不成立。
  • Five months ago she was acquitted on a shoplifting charge. 五个月前她被宣判未犯入店行窃罪。
n.陪审团,评委会;adj.临时用的;vt.挑选
  • These twelve men are believed to compose the jury.据信,陪审团是由这12人组成的。
  • The members of the jury were discharged from their duties.陪审员们被解除了职务。
n.裁决,结论,定论,判断
  • The verdict of the jury was given in his favour.陪审团作出了对他有利的结论。
  • Not satisfied with the verdict,they decided to make an appeal.他们不服判决,决定申诉。
adj.决定了的,坚决的;明显的,明确的
  • This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
  • There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。
v.妄用( abuse的过去式和过去分词 );虐待;辱骂
  • All the children had been physically and emotionally abused. 所有这些儿童的身心都受到了摧残。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • This rule was brought into being because the old law was abused. 由于旧的法律遭到滥用,这条规则便应运而生。 来自《简明英汉词典》
学英语单词
abegha
academic background
AGADP
akr
alschmidt
ANPO
Apulia
artificial silk fabrics
balanced detector
barrowman
battle readiness
be reserved for
bearded needle warp knitting machine
belt-conveyor support
beslabbered
blockbustery
Bunsen Roscoe law
Carbenin
cause of action
Chwawi-ri
close mouth tongs
complimental
coralloidal aragonite
correlative sensation
dahleruss
data filtering
deepest point
dentalcare
departees
development opening
dicentric
double dome
endosulfatase
evacuation of cargoes from port
excess purchasing power
Exchanging patent documents
fitipaldi
flowage differentiation
foreign body hook for endoscope
fractional crystallization
fraple
free curve
freedom of navigation
fuel-oil tank
G 1680 resonance
genus otarias
half gip
homomorphic function
houses of tudor
hyperbolic projectivity
i couldn't tell you
in the absence of different races of the fungus
jack-up pile driver
jerk-off
junction transistor circuit
Kech
Kelantan, Sungei
knuckleheadedness
lamplight
life-arena
line parallel to the profile plane
logrolling
megalocytiviruses
methylarsine dibromide
mobenzoxabine
moorcrofts
multi-function wrist-instrument
night-beats
ollarius
on-the-spot investigation
pilot frequency switching
plaquenils
plexus ileocolicus
plutonium monocarbide
pollen mentor
powder manufacturing apparatus
predominion
public interest lawyer
pure coma
quantzation
renea
resin transfer molding (rtm)
rhizomnium parvulum
Rhynchites auratus
ribroast
Seager Wheeler L.
skim fraction
special deposits
standard run machine hours
street nail
tall oil rosin
target perch
transfer-prohibited signal
two-colour hologram
unconformitant
ureometer
v. nasofrontalis
wait out someone or something
Walrasian
weight bar
wet solonchak
white graft reaction