2007年VOA标准英语-Indian Police Under Fire as Bodies of 17 Poor A
时间：2019-02-06 作者：英语课 分类：2007年VOA标准英语（一月）
By Anjana Pasricha
New Delhi
07 January 2007
Activists of leftist women organizations protest killing 1 of innocent children in Noida, India, 6 Jan 2006
The bodies of 17 women and children who disappeared over the last two years have been discovered in a house in an upscale suburb of the Indian capital. As Anjana Pasricha reports from New Delhi, the case has triggered public outrage 2 at the failure of police to investigate the disappearances 3.
The gruesome crime came to light over the New Year weekend, when police found the skeletal remains 4 of 17 people outside a businessman's home in a posh suburban 5 town on the outskirts 6 of New Delhi.
The police believe the victims were lured 7 into the businessman's home by his servant with the promise of sweets, then sexually assaulted and killed. Their dismembered bodies were later stuffed into sacks and dumped into drains.
The businessman and his servant have been arrested and charged with kidnapping, raping 8 and murdering the victims, some of who were as young as five years old.
The dead were mostly children of the poor migrant workers who live in huts and shanties 9 just half a kilometer from the booming town. They had disappeared over the last two years, but their relatives say the police refused to investigate the cases.
Furious residents say police only took action after people found body parts and clothes in a drain behind the businessman's house. An outraged 10 public is accusing the police of failing to act because the victims and their families were poor.
The head of the Bureau of Police Research and Development, Kiran Bedi, says a badly funded police force does tend to ignore the problems of the poor.
"People on the margins 11 actually do not get the attention," she said. "They do not have the power of money or influence, and they do get left out. And whatever resources by the way the police has, because it has got grossly inadequate 12 resources, they go to V.I.P. security, to law and order, and to more high-profile cases and heinous 13 crimes. So preventive policing is a big, big casualty, and so are the poorer sections of
Communist Party of India (Marxist) leader and lawmaker Brinda Karat, second right, comforts the relatives of children who were killed in Noida, 6 Jan 2007
society."
Grieving parents say the police refused to follow up on reports of the disappearances, even though one young boy or girl from the shanties would go missing every few weeks. They say a total of 30 children have disappeared, but instead of investigating, the police scolded the parents for failing to take care of their children.
Their grief has now boiled over into anger. The families have thrown stones at the police, and rioted outside the businessman's house.
Their anguish 14 has finally prompted some action. Six officers have been fired for failing to act on the reports of missing children, and the federal government has ordered an investigation 15 into the police handling of the incident.
- 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。
- When he heard the news he reacted with a sense of outrage.他得悉此事时义愤填膺。
- We should never forget the outrage committed by the Japanese invaders.我们永远都不应该忘记日本侵略者犯下的暴行。
- Most disappearances are the result of the terrorist activity. 大多数的失踪案都是恐怖分子造成的。 来自辞典例句
- The espionage, the betrayals, the arrests, the tortures, the executions, the disappearances will never cease. 间谍活动、叛党卖国、逮捕拷打、处决灭迹，这种事情永远不会完。 来自英汉文学
- He ate the remains of food hungrily.他狼吞虎咽地吃剩余的食物。
- The remains of the meal were fed to the dog.残羹剩饭喂狗了。
- Suburban shopping centers were springing up all over America. 效区的商业中心在美国如雨后春笋般地兴起。
- There's a lot of good things about suburban living.郊区生活是有许多优点。
- Our car broke down on the outskirts of the city.我们的汽车在市郊出了故障。
- They mostly live on the outskirts of a town.他们大多住在近郊。
- 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。
- In response, Charles VI sent a punitive expedition to Brittany, raping and killing the populace. 作为报复，查理六世派军讨伐布列塔尼，奸淫杀戮平民。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- The conquerors marched on, burning, killing, raping and plundering as they went. 征服者所到之处烧杀奸掠，无所不做。 来自互联网
- A few shanties sprawl in the weeds. 杂草丛中零零落落地歪着几所棚屋。 来自辞典例句
- The workers live in shanties outside the factory. 工人们住在工厂外面的小棚屋内。 来自互联网
- Members of Parliament were outraged by the news of the assassination. 议会议员们被这暗杀的消息激怒了。
- He was outraged by their behavior. 他们的行为使他感到愤慨。
- They have always had to make do with relatively small profit margins. 他们不得不经常设法应付较少的利润额。
- To create more space between the navigation items, add left and right margins to the links. 在每个项目间留更多的空隙，加左或者右的margins来定义链接。
- The supply is inadequate to meet the demand.供不应求。
- She was inadequate to the demands that were made on her.她还无力满足对她提出的各项要求。
- They admitted to the most heinous crimes.他们承认了极其恶劣的罪行。
- I do not want to meet that heinous person.我不想见那个十恶不赦的人。
- She cried out for anguish at parting.分手时，她由于痛苦而失声大哭。
- The unspeakable anguish wrung his heart.难言的痛苦折磨着他的心。
- In an investigation,a new fact became known, which told against him.在调查中新发现了一件对他不利的事实。
- He drew the conclusion by building on his own investigation.他根据自己的调查研究作出结论。