访谈录 2008-12-20&12-22 音乐酷刑
时间：2018-12-07 作者：英语课 分类：访谈录2008
"It is torture. I have no doubt about it in my mind. It is torture."
Donald Vance was a detainee in the US military's Camp Cropper in Iraq, held for months after he reported evidence of corruption 1. Vance says he was forced to listen to earsplitting music for months on end and it nearly drove him to suicide. Detainees, some US officials and human rights groups say U.S. forces have systematically 2 used loud music against hundreds of detainees in Afghanistan, Guantanamo Bay and Iraq.
"You can hear them screaming. You can hear them crying out loud. They are usually calling out for their mothers or calling out for God to help them. And, yeah, you can, you could hear someone going insane."
Like they’d keep’em up all night long by blasting out music, we're trying our best to stop it.
In a campaign being launched on International Human Rights Day, Reprieve 3, a legal group representing some Guantanamo detainees, along with musicians are protesting the use of music during interrogations. Not all of the music in question is hard rock either.
~~Put down the duckie
Put down the duckie
Put down the duckie
Yeah, you gotta leave the duck alone...~~~
Christopher Cerf, a songwriter for Sesame Street was horrified 4 to learn that songs he penned for children's TV shows were used in interrogation.
"Humorously I made the point that I was willing to sacrifice those, those royalties 5 for my country. But this is not the way I want my songs used."
Reprieve zero DB for Zero Decibel 6 campaign calls for the enforcement of UN Convention Against Torture and encourages musicians to hold a minute of silence at concerts. One interrogator 7 at Guantanamo bragged 8 that he needed only four days to “break” someone using music and lights. Ruhal Ahmed, a British citizen who was captured in Afghanistan told Reprieve it was much worse when the music started.
It makes you feel like you are going mad. After a while, you don’t hear the lyrics 9. All you hear is heavy, heavy banging.
A Guantanamo Bay spokeswoman wouldn't give details of when and how music has been used at the prison, and would also not respond when asked whether music might be used again in the future.
Tracy Brown, the Associated Press.
整理笔记：
earsplitting: loud and shrill 10 enough to hurt the ears.
for months/days/weeks on end: if something happens or continues for days, months etc. on end, it continues for several days, months, or weeks without stopping.
royalty 11: a share paid to a writer or composer out of the proceeds resulting from the sale or performance of his or her work.
- The people asked the government to hit out against corruption and theft.人民要求政府严惩贪污盗窃。
- The old man reviled against corruption.那老人痛斥了贪污舞弊。
- This government has systematically run down public services since it took office.这一屆政府自上台以来系统地削减了公共服务。
- The rainforest is being systematically destroyed.雨林正被系统地毀灭。
- He was saved from the gallows by a lastminute reprieve.最后一刻的缓刑令把他从绞架上解救了下来。
- The railway line, due for closure, has been granted a six-month reprieve.本应停运的铁路线获准多运行6 个月。
- The whole country was horrified by the killings. 全国都对这些凶杀案感到大为震惊。
- We were horrified at the conditions prevailing in local prisons. 地方监狱的普遍状况让我们震惊。
- I lived on about £3,000 a year from the royalties on my book. 我靠着写书得来的每年约3，000英镑的版税生活。 来自辞典例句
- Payments shall generally be made in the form of royalties. 一般应采取提成方式支付。 来自经济法规部分
- The noise pollution reached a high decibel level.噪音污染达到了很高分贝。
- In sound we use the decibel scale.在声学中我们采用分贝标度。
- No,I was not mad, but my interrogator was furious. 不，我没疯，只是质问我的人怒不可遏。 来自互联网
- Miss Fan lacked such an interrogator with whom she could whisper intimately. 范小姐就缺少这样一个切切私语的盘问者。 来自互联网
- He bragged to his friends about the crime. 他向朋友炫耀他的罪行。
- Mary bragged that she could run faster than Jack. 玛丽夸口说她比杰克跑得快。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- music and lyrics by Rodgers and Hart 由罗杰斯和哈特作词作曲
- The book contains lyrics and guitar tablatures for over 100 songs. 这本书有100多首歌的歌词和吉他奏法谱。