英伦广角 2012-06-30 英国一母亲杀死亲生儿子与女儿 与尸体同眠
英语课
Lianne Smith admits killing 1 her children and has described in detail how she suffocated 2 them by putting plastic bags over their heads. But the jury in the Spanish city of Girona would decide whether she is criminally responsible or whether she was mentally ill. They've been shown a video recorded by police in the hotel where the children died.
What happened during a day or during last night in this room?
I’m delivering an extort 3.
Delivery, yes, of course.
I ended the lives of my 2 children.
In the room.
And I tried to end my life, so that’s why.
In what of time did you, did you kill your 2 children?
Between at 8 and 8:30 p.m.
What did you do then? Did you immediately try to commit suicide, what happened then?
I, I lay off beside, and I talked to them.
They are not on, on continued conscious.
And then I need a bed, I need a home and then met them in the bathroom.
Did your children want to stay in the bathroom and then you tried to commit a suicide?
In the bathroom, yes.
When Lianne Smith was first arrested, her arms were bandaged. Evidences of a possible suicide attempt. The court has heard the backgrounds of the killings 4 and the family had fled Britain and lived in this Barcelona apartment when her partner Martin Smith was accused of sexually abusing a child. How, when he was tracked down and extradited, she felt her children would be taken from her and put them into a care. She checked into a hotel in the Costa Brava resort of Lloret de Mar 5. And after hiding for 3 days, she decided 6 to kill 5-year-old Rebecca and 11-month-old Daniel rather than to lose them to social workers. She spent a night with the bodies and following day she asked the hotel receptionist to call the police. Lianne Smith said calm in court listing the evidence, her lawyer said, she had a panic to have lost contact with reality, believing in there was a threat to the lives of her and her children. The prosecutor 7 has called for her jail term of 38 years saying the children were totally incapable 8 of defending themselves.
n.巨额利润；突然赚大钱，发大财
- Investors are set to make a killing from the sell-off.投资者准备清仓以便大赚一笔。
- Last week my brother made a killing on Wall Street.上个周我兄弟在华尔街赚了一大笔。
（使某人）窒息而死( suffocate的过去式和过去分词 )； （将某人）闷死； 让人感觉闷热； 憋气
- Many dogs have suffocated in hot cars. 许多狗在热烘烘的汽车里给闷死了。
- I nearly suffocated when the pipe of my breathing apparatus came adrift. 呼吸器上的管子脱落时，我差点给憋死。
v.勒索，敲诈，强要
- The blackmailer tried to extort a large sum of money from him.勒索者企图向他勒索一大笔钱。
- They absolutely must not harm the people or extort money from them.严格禁止坑害勒索群众。
谋杀( killing的名词复数 )； 突然发大财，暴发
- His statement was seen as an allusion to the recent drug-related killings. 他的声明被视为暗指最近与毒品有关的多起凶杀案。
- The government issued a statement condemning the killings. 政府发表声明谴责这些凶杀事件。
vt.破坏，毁坏，弄糟
- It was not the custom for elderly people to mar the picnics with their presence.大人们照例不参加这样的野餐以免扫兴。
- Such a marriage might mar your career.这样的婚姻说不定会毁了你的一生。
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。
n.起诉人；检察官，公诉人
- 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。