CNN 2010-11-25

Ingmar Guandique has been found guilty of both counts in this case. That would be, the important one here is first-degree murder.

This jury has had a tough time with this case. They've been out since Wednesday. They deliberated through the weekend. And it's not easy. It's a circumstantial case. It's based on a jailhouse confession¹ in part, which is notoriously unreliable form of evidence. It's based in its most powerful part on the fact that these defendants² attacked two women in almost the same place in almost the same way that Chandra Levy³ was attacked. But there's no eyewitness⁴. There's no DNA⁵ evidence. And juries have hard times with cases like that.

We're always looking at ways that we can evolve our technology and our protocols⁶ for how we go about doing this. In the short-term, there will not be any changes, but what I'm looking at is how can we best use the information we have, both the intelligence from overseas such as what we saw this weekend from Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula about how they design and conceal⁷ the toner cartridge⁸ bombs in cargo⁹ flights out of Yemen that coupled with the thoroughness that we believe is appropriate.

When he got to my chest area, he used his open palm and started going down my chest quite hard. And I knew that if he got down near where my urostomy bag was, there was a possibility of pulling the seal off it. And I said at that point, you need to go slower and you need to go softer or you're going to pull my urostomy bag off. And he said, what's that? And I said it doesn't matter, just go softer. And low on behold¹⁰, he got down to where the urostomy bag was. I happened to have one of the bags here to show you and pulled the seal kind of half off it. And once that happened, it was kind of like pulling the seal off, half off a bottle of orange juice and tipping it upside-down. The urine started coming out of my bag and onto my shirt and down my pants.

Emergency crews have rescued 29 miners who spent more than 30 hours not knowing whether they were gonna lived. This is the first rescued miner shown on China State TV this morning. He and the others got stuck when the mine was flooded. It took rescuers less than an hour to pull them out and a huge crowd clapped when the last miner came out.
 

1 confession   

n.自白，供认，承认

参考例句：

• Her confession was simply tantamount to a casual explanation.她的自白简直等于一篇即席说明。
• The police used torture to extort a confession from him.警察对他用刑逼供。

2 defendants   

被告( defendant的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• 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

3 levy   

n.征收税或其他款项，征收额

参考例句：

• They levy a tax on him.他们向他征税。
• A direct food levy was imposed by the local government.地方政府征收了食品税。

4 eyewitness   

n.目击者，见证人

参考例句：

• The police questioned several eyewitness to the murder.警察询问了谋杀案的几位目击者。
• He was the only eyewitness of the robbery.他是那起抢劫案的唯一目击者。

5 DNA   

(缩)deoxyribonucleic acid 脱氧核糖核酸

参考例句：

• DNA is stored in the nucleus of a cell.脱氧核糖核酸储存于细胞的细胞核里。
• Gene mutations are alterations in the DNA code.基因突变是指DNA密码的改变。

6 protocols   

n.礼仪( protocol的名词复数 )；（外交条约的）草案；（数据传递的）协议；科学实验报告（或计划）

参考例句：

• There are also protocols on the testing of nuclear weapons. 也有关于核武器试验的协议。 来自辞典例句
• Hardware components and software design of network transport protocols are separately introduced. 介绍系统硬件组成及网络传输协议的软件设计。 来自互联网

7 conceal   

v.隐藏，隐瞒，隐蔽

参考例句：

• He had to conceal his identity to escape the police.为了躲避警方，他只好隐瞒身份。
• He could hardly conceal his joy at his departure.他几乎掩饰不住临行时的喜悦。

8 cartridge   

n.弹壳，弹药筒；(装磁带等的)盒子

参考例句：

• Unfortunately the 2G cartridge design is very difficult to set accurately.不幸地2G弹药筒设计非常难正确地设定。
• This rifle only holds one cartridge.这支来复枪只能装一发子弹。

9 cargo   

n.(一只船或一架飞机运载的)货物

参考例句：

• The ship has a cargo of about 200 ton.这条船大约有200吨的货物。
• A lot of people discharged the cargo from a ship.许多人从船上卸下货物。

10 behold   

v.看，注视，看到

参考例句：

• The industry of these little ants is wonderful to behold.这些小蚂蚁辛勤劳动的样子看上去真令人惊叹。
• The sunrise at the seaside was quite a sight to behold.海滨日出真是个奇景。