2007年VOA标准英语-Virginia Tech Gunman Video Sparks Mixed Reactio
时间：2019-01-07 作者：英语课 分类：2007年VOA标准英语（四月）
By Jim Malone
Washington
19 April 2007
Investigators 1 said Thursday the disturbing video images of the student responsible for the worst shooting spree in U.S. history did not add much to their probe of what happened and why at Virginia Tech University on Monday. But the airing of gunman Cho Seung-hui's ranting 3 video has angered relatives of the victims and some students. VOA National correspondent Jim Malone has the latest on the aftermath of the shooting tragedy from Washington.
Cho's video diatribe 4 included angry tirades 5 against rich students and what he called their debauchery and hedonistic needs.
The video contained pictures of Cho posing with two handguns. The video rant 2 was often rambling 6, incoherent and at times profane 7, with Cho blaming others for his anger and frustration 8.
"You had a hundred billion ways to have avoided today, but you decided 9 to spill my blood," said Cho Seung-hui. "You forced me into a corner and you gave me only one option, but the decision was yours. Now you have blood on your hands that will never wash off."
Image of gunman Cho Seung-Hui received by NBC News
Police said the video offered little new from what they already had learned about Cho's troubled outlook on life and society.
Criminal profiler Pat Brown told CBS television that Cho's video provided insight into the mind of a mass killer 10.
"What he has shown in this video is that indeed, he is a psychopath, his very grandiose 11 thinking, he is glorifying 12 himself," said Brown. "He justifies 13 what he does and this is for himself, not actually for other people."
Cho sent the video packet to NBC News in New York. Investigators believe he mailed the package in between the two shooting incidents on Monday.
NBC decided to air excerpts 14 of the video after turning over the material to law enforcement officials.
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Virginia State Police Superintendent Steve Flaherty told a news conference at Virginia Tech he was disappointed NBC had decided to air the video.
"The victims and their families, the entire university campus and even the international community have certainly been afflicted 16 by these horrific events and this horrific tragedy and this intense media attention," he said. "I am sorry that you were all exposed to these images."
Virginia Tech student Jonathan Brown was among those upset at seeing Cho's video confession 17.
"I think it is really sick that he would do something like that," he said.
NBC officials said they debated whether to air Cho's video diatribe, but in the end decided to go ahead.
NBC Today Show co-host Meredith Vieira defended the decision to air Cho's video on Thursday's program.
"What was contained in that rambling and hate-filled manifesto 18 was not taken lightly, it was not made quickly and we understand that this is going to be seen as devastating 19 to many people who lost loved ones in the shooting," she said.
Some criminal experts have expressed concern the Cho video could encourage similar acts of violence elsewhere. In the video, Cho referred to the two students responsible for the massacre 20 at Columbine high school in Colorado in 1999 that killed 12 students and a teacher.
Several universities tightened 21 security this week in the wake of the Virginia Tech shootings and several bomb scares were reported at colleges and universities around the country.
"The copy cat effect in school violence is alive and well, unfortunately, and it feeds on the attention that we give these school shootings," said Jack 22 Levin, a criminologist who specializes in mass killers 23 at Northeastern University in Boston.
In the wake of the shootings and now the disturbing video from the gunman, the Virginia Tech community and the rural town of Blacksburg are struggling to come to grips with the tragedy.
VOA's Brian Padden spoke 24 to longtime local resident John Lemasters.
"We assumed the town was a safe place, that our university was a safe place," said Lemasters. "And that morning all of our assumptions were shattered."
Restaurant owner Ranae Gillie said the healing process would take time.
"We are all affiliated 25 someway or another with the university," said Gillie. "When this horrific event happened, it affected 26 each one of us all. And we are trying, in our own way, to do some act of healing."
University officials said Thursday those students who died in Monday's shooting spree would be awarded their degrees posthumously 27 during commencement exercises later this year.
- This memo could be the smoking gun that investigators have been looking for. 这份备忘录可能是调查人员一直在寻找的证据。
- The team consisted of six investigators and two secretaries. 这个团队由六个调查人员和两个秘书组成。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- You can rant and rave at the fine,but you'll still have to pay it.你闹也好，骂也好，罚金还是得交。
- If we rant on the net,the world is our audience.如果我们在网络上大声嚷嚷，全世界都是我们的听众。
- Mrs. Sakagawa stopped her ranting. 坂川太太戛然中断悲声。 来自辞典例句
- He was ranting about the murder of his dad. 他大叫她就是杀死他父亲的凶手。 来自电影对白
- He launched a diatribe against the younger generation.他对年轻一代发起了长篇抨击。
- The book is a diatribe against the academic left.这本书对学术左派进行了长时间的谩骂。
- What's the matter with Levin today?Why doesn't he launch into one of his tirades? 你所说得话我全记录下来列文今天怎么啦？没有反唇相讥？
- We spent the summer rambling in Ireland. 我们花了一个夏天漫游爱尔兰。
- It was easy to get lost in the rambling house. 在布局凌乱的大房子里容易迷路。
- He doesn't dare to profane the name of God.他不敢亵渎上帝之名。
- His profane language annoyed us.他亵渎的言语激怒了我们。
- He had to fight back tears of frustration.他不得不强忍住失意的泪水。
- He beat his hands on the steering wheel in frustration.他沮丧地用手打了几下方向盘。
- 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。
- Heart attacks have become Britain's No.1 killer disease.心脏病已成为英国的头号致命疾病。
- The bulk of the evidence points to him as her killer.大量证据证明是他杀死她的。
- His grandiose manner impressed those who met him for the first time.他那种夸大的举止给第一次遇见他的人留下了深刻的印象。
- As the fog vanished,a grandiose landscape unfolded before the tourists.雾气散去之后，一幅壮丽的景观展现在游客面前。
- I had no intention of either glorifying or belittling Christianity, merely the desire to understand it. 我并没有赞扬基督教或蔑视它的立意，我所想的只是了解它。
- You are glorifying a rather mediocre building. 你正在美化一栋普普通通的建筑。
- Their frequency of use both justifies and requires the memorization. 频繁的使用需要记忆，也促进了记忆。 来自About Face 3交互设计精髓
- In my judgement the present end justifies the means. 照我的意见，只要目的正当，手段是可以不计较的。
- Some excerpts from a Renaissance mass are spatchcocked into Gluck's pallid Don Juan music. 一些文艺复光时期的弥撒的选节被不适当地加入到了格鲁克平淡无味的唐璜音乐中。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- He is editing together excerpts of some of his films. 他正在将自己制作的一些电影的片断进行剪辑合成。 来自辞典例句
- He was soon promoted to the post of superintendent of Foreign Trade.他很快就被擢升为对外贸易总监。
- He decided to call the superintendent of the building.他决定给楼房管理员打电话。
- About 40% of the country's population is afflicted with the disease. 全国40%左右的人口患有这种疾病。
- A terrible restlessness that was like to hunger afflicted Martin Eden. 一阵可怕的、跟饥饿差不多的不安情绪折磨着马丁·伊登。
- Her confession was simply tantamount to a casual explanation.她的自白简直等于一篇即席说明。
- The police used torture to extort a confession from him.警察对他用刑逼供。
- I was involved in the preparation of Labour's manifesto.我参与了工党宣言的起草工作。
- His manifesto promised measures to protect them.他在宣言里保证要为他们采取保护措施。
- It is the most devastating storm in 20 years.这是20年来破坏性最大的风暴。
- Affairs do have a devastating effect on marriages.婚外情确实会对婚姻造成毁灭性的影响。
- There was a terrible massacre of villagers here during the war.在战争中，这里的村民惨遭屠杀。
- If we forget the massacre,the massacre will happen again!忘记了大屠杀，大屠杀就有可能再次发生！
- The rope holding the boat suddenly tightened and broke. 系船的绳子突然绷断了。
- His index finger tightened on the trigger but then relaxed again. 他的食指扣住扳机，然后又松开了。
- I am looking for the headphone jack.我正在找寻头戴式耳机插孔。
- He lifted the car with a jack to change the flat tyre.他用千斤顶把车顶起来换下瘪轮胎。
- He remained steadfast in his determination to bring the killers to justice. 他要将杀人凶手绳之以法的决心一直没有动摇。
- They were professional killers who did in John. 杀死约翰的这些人是职业杀手。
- They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
- The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。
- The hospital is affiliated with the local university. 这家医院附属于当地大学。
- All affiliated members can vote. 所有隶属成员都有投票权。
- She showed an affected interest in our subject.她假装对我们的课题感到兴趣。
- His manners are affected.他的态度不自然。
- He was confirmed posthumously as a member of the Chinese Communist Party. 他被追认为中国共产党党员。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- Her last book was published posthumously in 1948. 她最后的一本书在她死后于1948 年出版了。 来自《简明英汉词典》