VOA标准英语2013--FBI Interviews Boston Area Chechens About Bombing Suspects
时间：2018-12-08 作者：英语课 分类：VOA标准英语2013年(四月)
FBI Interviews Boston Area Chechens About Bombing Suspects
At a picnic with friends, Maryam Baieva and her brother Islam talked about coming to the Boston area as refugees 1 from their native Chechnya more than a decade ago.
They are about the same age as Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, who along with his older brother Tamerlan, is accused of the terrorist 2 bombings at the Boston Marathon that killed three people and wounded more than 250 others.
Both Maryam and Islam were interviewed by the FBI, but Maryam says she only knew Dzhokhar for a brief time back when she was in second grade.
“He was a normal kid. He is a very smart kid. He would help me with my math homework all the time and he would tease 3 me about me not knowing my math correctly, but he is a smart kid," she said.
Islam Baiev says he did not know the brothers at all and was stunned 4 to learn that fellow Chechens stand accused of committing such horrific violence.
“My first initial 5 reaction was, 'Please do not be a Muslim. And not only was it a Muslim, it was a Chechen, so I was really shocked and [it] disappointed me. I felt a little embarrassed," he said.
Maryam speculated 6 that because the Tsarnaev brothers never lived in Chechnya during the war, as her family had, they likely did not appreciate the safety and support they received in America.
“In Chechnya thousands and thousands of people have gotten killed. We've seen buildings exploding. We have seen a lot of destruction. But the kid that has never stepped a foot there, never seen that, I do not know what he was thinking. Me and my brother, we feel very lucky to be in America, to be away from that," she said.
Since moving to the Boston area, Maryam and Islam say they have been embraced by the community and grateful for the opportunity to live normal lives.
- The UN has begun making airdrops of food to refugees. 联合国已开始向难民空投食物。
- They claimed they were political refugees and not economic migrants. 他们宣称自己是政治难民，不是经济移民。
- Without the gun,I'm a sitting duck for any terrorist.没有这支枪，我就成了恐怖分子下手的目标了。
- The district was put on red alert during a terrorist's bomb scare.这个地区在得到恐怖分子炸弹恐吓后作了应急准备。
- The other boys tease him because he is fat.因为他很胖，所以其他男生都取笑他。
- His friends used to tease him about his tatty clothes.他的朋友过去常常笑话他破旧的衣服。
- After she'd overcome her initial shyness,she became very friendly.她克服了起初的羞怯之后，变得十分友善。
- The experiments have given initial results eventually.那些试验总算初见成效了。
- We all speculated about the reasons for her resignation. 我们大家都推测过她辞职的原因。
- The philosopher speculated about the future of the human race. 那位哲学家考虑过人类的前途。