时间:2018-12-11 作者:英语课 分类:访谈录2012年


英语课

 The contention 1 of the defense 2 that the Bentley lurched and those concussions 3 was causing the problems, but no witnesses have testified to that.


 
That’s right, so we heard from a lot of witnesses yesterday, including many who arrived on the scene shortly thereafter. None of them saying that he said “Here I am in my car, the next thing I know my car lurches forward,” you would think that affects actually what happened. When he was telling people again and again what happened, how it happened, he would have said, “my car, I’ve lost control of it, suddenly it shot forward.” That’s the sort of thing the juries talk about when they get back into the jury room, when they start evaluating the totality of the account. And can we believe it? It’s the sort of thing you can expect those juries to discuss about. 
 
Right, except when we heard from the girlfriend, yesterday the first phone call he made and didn’t say a word to her about the heading, in some way, her testimony 4 was kind of surprising, quite short. 
 
Yeah, very short, but she was never that important a witness, she’s a salacious witness, man, particular because she’s now his daughter as well. But she’s not that important in terms of actually providing evidence in this case, you know, this thing about the car does make you wonder whether he’s gonna have to take stand. Who else is going to be able to testify that’s what happened?
 
Yes, the defense who says they’ll bring an expert from Bentley will talk about problems with the car, this kind of car had issues etc. but to say that it actually happened in this case. 
 
And you’re usually leery about putting defendants 5 on the stand. But here you think you might have to.
 
I am, in most cases I would tell you I don’t think the defendants are gonna take the stand. And look, it totally depends on how he would do in a mock cross examination that I’m assuring you that his defense attorney has done to either help him prepared to get on the stand or to convince him not to take the stand, one of those two.
 
But this may be just one of those cases where the best shot they have is to have him get up there and try and explain exactly what happened?
 
How about this testimony of Lisa Pembleton, the prosecution 6’s star witness, the man mentioned his speed, said Roy Black, the defense attorney, this irated her, but you think that Black has to be a little careful about how far she goes.
 
She just comes across as this kind of locative witness, not someone who necessarily wants to be there, not someone who’s looking for the big payout, and the allegation from the defense is that she’s trying to sort of work with the plaintiffs in the context of a civil lawsuit 7, a little big dangerous here, very important witness, because she’s the one who actually convinces him to call 911. 
 
And the prosecution not making a big deal about the fact that the girl friend is now the daughter. 
 
Yeah, no, not at all, I don’t think that’s gonna be a particularly significant issue in this case until maybe the sentencing, again, it probably shouldn’t matter then, but as I’ve said, I’ve said it before, I think it’s impossible to keep that out of the trial entirely 8 in any way, shape or form, even if it means psychologically in terms of the judge, whoever counts.   

1 contention
n.争论,争辩,论战;论点,主张
  • The pay increase is the key point of contention. 加薪是争论的焦点。
  • The real bone of contention,as you know,is money.你知道,争论的真正焦点是钱的问题。
2 defense
n.防御,保卫;[pl.]防务工事;辩护,答辩
  • 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。
3 concussions
n.震荡( concussion的名词复数 );脑震荡;冲击;震动
  • People who have concussions often trouble thinking or remembering. 患脑震荡的人通常存在思考和记忆障碍。 来自互联网
  • Concussions also make a person feel very tired or angry. 脑震荡也会使人感觉疲倦或愤怒。 来自互联网
4 testimony
n.证词;见证,证明
  • The testimony given by him is dubious.他所作的证据是可疑的。
  • He was called in to bear testimony to what the police officer said.他被传入为警官所说的话作证。
5 defendants
被告( defendant的名词复数 )
  • The courts heard that the six defendants had been coerced into making a confession. 法官审判时发现6位被告人曾被迫承认罪行。
  • As in courts, the defendants are represented by legal counsel. 与法院相同,被告有辩护律师作为代表。 来自英汉非文学 - 政府文件
6 prosecution
n.起诉,告发,检举,执行,经营
  • The Smiths brought a prosecution against the organizers.史密斯家对组织者们提出起诉。
  • He attempts to rebut the assertion made by the prosecution witness.他试图反驳原告方证人所作的断言。
7 lawsuit
n.诉讼,控诉
  • They threatened him with a lawsuit.他们以诉讼威逼他。
  • He was perpetually involving himself in this long lawsuit.他使自己无休止地卷入这场长时间的诉讼。
8 entirely
ad.全部地,完整地;完全地,彻底地
  • The fire was entirely caused by their neglect of duty. 那场火灾完全是由于他们失职而引起的。
  • His life was entirely given up to the educational work. 他的一生统统献给了教育工作。
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against someone's will
agustin roca
anigraphs
ASCII fromat
auto-antibodies
ballotage
biformyl
casti
chhota udepur
chlorine gas chamber
color bloom
conservation tillage
court of the union
cut decoration
cuticura
dahlgrens
degeneratio fibrinosa
dekohm
Dendranthema nankingense
dengo
dermoneurosis
dialkyl alkylene diphosphonic acid
diodoruss
disuniformities
dog-ear
dowarie
ecphrastic
edge beam
een
electrostatic dry spraying
end fire array
fire chrome brick
first-responders
foldably
gago
genus Tulipa
ginglymostoma cirratums
gnathode
Gulaothi
hiram williamss
hypersexualizes
inquiry processing program
Intelligent Optical Networking
interlaid
internal ionization
Internet PC
Kibre Mengist
Le Breuil
lluis
loading coil
maximum speed regulator
mcjunkin
metagnathons
metal insulator semiconductor light emitting diod
Mycaptine
net cord
network adapter card
non-self revealing fault
nosing motion
on-line retrieval system
Otomaco
party travel
phase induced polarization method
phyllorhize
pignon
plutodemocracy
portable axial flow ventilator
prenoverine
procons
pulse-width modulator
pump energy
rapid answer
ratable
respiratory medicine
rgh
rotor ampere
run errands for
satinette machine
Scottish reel
second
Shin-yodo-gawa
shukrijumah
sinoa
slant plane
snowshed
sociology of communication
sovicilles
spring-swage
St. Mary of Bethlehem
stercorary
subsystem generation
tank capacitance
tea-leaf
Thycapsol
transpicuous
tubercula quadrigemina
unextortionate
uphanging
vice-mayor
wing dihedral angle
yin kept externally by yang excess in the interior