VOA标准英语2011--US Trial of Alleged Arms Dealer Opens in
时间：2019-01-14 作者：英语课 分类：VOA标准英语2011年(十月)
US Trial of Alleged 1 Arms Dealer 2 Opens in New York
The trial of a former Soviet 3 Air Force officer and alleged international arms dealer dubbed 4 a "merchant of death" by security experts is underway in New York.
Police in Thailand arrested Russian businessman Viktor Bout 5 in 2008. His trial in New York opened with prosecutors 7 and defense 8 lawyers painting sharply different pictures of the former Soviet military officer.
Bout is accused of conspiring 9 to sell thousands of military-grade weapons. including surface-to-air-missiles, explosives, and grenades.
Federal prosecutor 6 Brendan McGuire told the court that Bout had quote, "jumped at the opportunity" to make millions selling arms to FARC, a Colombian rebel organization that he believed would use them, in part, to shoot down U.S. helicopters. He alleged that Bout had said Americans were his enemies too.
Federal agent William S. Brown testified Bout's arrest in Thailand came after he met with undercover agents posing as members of FARC, which the U.S. has designated as a terrorist organization.
Bout maintains his innocence 10 and says he was entrapped 11. He was extradited to the U.S. after a lengthy 12 court battle.
Bout's attorney, Albert Dayan, told the court his client was lured 13 to the meeting on the hopes of selling two cargo 14 airplanes he owned. Dayan said Bout was never an arms dealer, only a transporter, and that he only promised to include weapons to promote the airplane sale.
Douglas Farah is co-author of Merchant of Death, a book that helped bring Bout to wide attention. He says Bout was the most successful illegal weapons trafficker ever, often arming both sides of African conflicts in the 1990s.
"…Fueling the wars around Africa, then eventually Afghanistan and then into Latin America and elsewhere," said Farah. "I think what's historic about his arrest is that it was one of the first times, and particularly the Drug Enforcement Administration went after someone who was tangentially 15 linked to narcotics 16, but fundamentally accused of violating weapons embargoes 17 and gross human rights abuses that flowed from those weapons sales."
A U.N. Security Council resolution from 2004 asked member states to refuse Viktor Bout transit 18 and to freeze his assets. Kathi Austin is with the Conflict Awareness 19 Network, a group that has tracked Bout for a long time.
"What's alarming to me is that Viktor Bout has actually trafficked weapons before into conflict areas, he's broken U.S. domestic law, he has actually trafficked and broken other laws and has violated U.N. sanctions, and Viktor Bout is not being held accountable for those particular real crimes, where there were real victims," said Austin.
Bout's wife, Alla, spoke 20 to reporters after the trial opened. Asked if her husband was capable of the crimes he is accused of, she called him a very talented "maverick 21" businessman.
"So, he can compromise on some issues. I cannot judge what really happened in this case, but as I know him very well, from the point of view of morals, the charges are absurd," said Alla Bout.
Bout faces life in prison if convicted on the four charges, which include conspiracy 22 to kill Americans and to provide material support to a terrorist organization.
- It was alleged that he had taken bribes while in office. 他被指称在任时收受贿赂。
- alleged irregularities in the election campaign 被指称竞选运动中的不正当行为
- The dealer spent hours bargaining for the painting.那个商人为购买那幅画花了几个小时讨价还价。
- The dealer reduced the price for cash down.这家商店对付现金的人减价优惠。
- Zhukov was a marshal of the former Soviet Union.朱可夫是前苏联的一位元帅。
- Germany began to attack the Soviet Union in 1941.德国在1941年开始进攻苏联。
- Mathematics was once dubbed the handmaiden of the sciences. 数学曾一度被视为各门科学的基础。
- Is the movie dubbed or does it have subtitles? 这部电影是配音的还是打字幕的？ 来自《简明英汉词典》
- I was suffering with a bout of nerves.我感到一阵紧张。
- That bout of pneumonia enfeebled her.那次肺炎的发作使她虚弱了。
- The defender argued down the prosecutor at the court.辩护人在法庭上驳倒了起诉人。
- The prosecutor would tear your testimony to pieces.检查官会把你的证言驳得体无完肤。
- In some places,public prosecutors are elected rather than appointed. 在有些地方，检察官是经选举而非任命产生的。 来自口语例句
- You've been summoned to the Prosecutors' Office, 2 days later. 你在两天以后被宣到了检察官的办公室。
- The accused has the right to defense.被告人有权获得辩护。
- The war has impacted the area with military and defense workers.战争使那个地区挤满了军队和防御工程人员。
- They were accused of conspiring against the king. 他们被指控阴谋反对国王。
- John Brown and his associates were tried for conspiring to overthrow the slave states. 约翰·布朗和他的合伙者们由于密谋推翻实行奴隶制度的美国各州而被审讯。
- There was a touching air of innocence about the boy.这个男孩有一种令人感动的天真神情。
- The accused man proved his innocence of the crime.被告人经证实无罪。
- He was entrapped into undertaking the work. 他受骗而担任那工作。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- He felt he had been entrapped into marrying her. 他觉得和她结婚是上了当。 来自辞典例句
- We devoted a lengthy and full discussion to this topic.我们对这个题目进行了长时间的充分讨论。
- The professor wrote a lengthy book on Napoleon.教授写了一部有关拿破仑的巨著。
- The child was lured into a car but managed to escape. 那小孩被诱骗上了车，但又设法逃掉了。
- Lured by the lust of gold,the pioneers pushed onward. 开拓者在黄金的诱惑下，继续奋力向前。
- The ship has a cargo of about 200 ton.这条船大约有200吨的货物。
- A lot of people discharged the cargo from a ship.许多人从船上卸下货物。
- The circumstances are delicate, involving their mother and, more tangentially, their father. 情况很微妙，事关他们的母亲也触及他们的父亲。 来自英汉文学 - 廊桥遗梦
- The use of narcotics by teenagers is a problem in many countries. 青少年服用麻醉药在许多国家中都是一个问题。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
- Police shook down the club, looking for narcotics. 警方彻底搜查了这个俱乐部，寻找麻醉品。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- Britain, France and the United States refused to lift their embargoes. 英、法和美国都拒绝取消禁运。
- Its public position is that it abides by all UN arms embargoes. 其公开立场是，他们遵守所有联合国的武器禁运命令。
- His luggage was lost in transit.他的行李在运送中丢失。
- The canal can transit a total of 50 ships daily.这条运河每天能通过50条船。
- There is a general awareness that smoking is harmful.人们普遍认识到吸烟有害健康。
- Environmental awareness has increased over the years.这些年来人们的环境意识增强了。
- 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。
- He's a maverick.He has his own way of thinking about things.他是个特异独行的人。对事情有自己的看法。
- You're a maverick and you'll try anything.你是个爱自行其是的人，样样事情都要尝试一下。
- The men were found guilty of conspiracy to murder.这些人被裁决犯有阴谋杀人罪。
- He claimed that it was all a conspiracy against him.他声称这一切都是一场针对他的阴谋。