PBS高端访谈:波士顿爆炸案幸存者对嫌犯的道歉做出回应

 　　GWEN IFILL: During his unexpected statement in court today, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev for the first time publicly acknowledged his role in the marathon bombings, and said he had since learned the names and faces of his victims. He also asked for forgiveness from Allah.

　　After Judge George O'Toole formally sentenced him to death by lethal¹ injection, some survivors³ told reporters they didn't consider his apology sincere.

　　Lynn Julian suffered a traumatic brain injury and hearing loss after the bombing, and Henry Borgard still struggles with post-traumatic stress disorder⁴.

　　LYNN JULIAN, Bombing Survivor²: He threw in an apology to the survivors that seemed insincere and just thrown in because he was supposed to, and then ended again with Allah, talking about leniency⁵, implying that we should now be lenient⁶ to him.

　　HENRY BORGARD, Bombing Survivor: I have forgiven him. I have come to a place of peace and I genuinely hope that he does as well. And for me to hear him say that he's sorry, that is enough for me.

　　GWEN IFILL: For more on the drama in the courtroom today, we turn to Emily Rooney of WGBH News, who was there.

　　Emily, did that statement from Tsarnaev, the apology, did it come as a surprise?

　　EMILY ROONEY, WGBH: It did, Gwen. It came as a surprise to everybody.

　　We had heard early this morning that there was a possibility it might happen. But it wasn't until his defense⁷ attorney, Judy Clarke, got up around 1:00 and said there's going to be an allocution. Well, an allocution could be anybody that is addressing the court. But we're thinking, well, who is going to do an allocution on the defense side? And sure enough it was him.

　　GWEN IFILL: In his statement, he didn't only acknowledge his own guilt⁸, but his brother's. And that's not — that was not part of his defense obviously.

　　EMILY ROONEY: The statement was awkward. It looked like he was reading it. It was hard to tell. He was looking down. And it was very awkwardly phrased.

　　But he said, in case there's any lingering doubt, it was me and my brother who did this. We are guilty.

　　And so a lot of it was kind of poorly constructed. But many times, he spoke⁹ about the victims, getting to know them, getting their names, their faces, their ages. At one point, he said, I wish more of you had spoken, even though today there were 24 people who gave impact statements.

　　GWEN IFILL: And we want to hear about that in moment.

　　But I want to ask you another thing. The interesting about this for a lot of us, we have never heard his voice. We don't know what he sounds like. What was his bearing? What did he seem like to you?

　　EMILY ROONEY: Yes. That's really egregious¹⁰, that the federal courts don't have cameras or at least recordings¹², although there is a recording¹¹. Maybe we can get ahold of it.

　　He speaks with a thick Russian accent, which some of his friends had said in school and high school and college he didn't have an accent. He did. It was a very discernible Russian accent. He spoke very softly, but he was also a fair distance from the microphone, so it was hard to hear him.

　　I wouldn't say it was an impassioned apology in any form or other. He's very — has a very somber¹³ demeanor¹⁴ anyway. That's the way he held himself in court the entire time. So, while he did apologize, he used the words, there was no passion behind it.

　　GWEN IFILL: So the emotions fell to the victims who were in court today and gave those impact statements you talked about. Tell me about those.

　　EMILY ROONEY: Yes.

　　That was just a wow, Gwen. A number of the victims addressed him personally: You made a poor choice. You are a despicable human being.

　　But a number of them chose not to address him, like Bill and Denise Richard. They stood together. They spoke of how he could have helped his brother. He could have backed away. He could have gotten out of the plan. Instead, he chose a path of hate, destruction and death and he said: We are choosing a path of kindness, love and forgiveness.

　　And so — but some of the ones who spoke about how their lives have been so dramatically ruined, really, with post-traumatic stress disorder, deafness. A number of people spoke about the invisible victims, the ones who looked fine on the outside. You can see the ones who are walking into the courtroom with missing limbs, but who have had a lot of internal injuries, especially the loss of hearing. It was very emotional.

　　GWEN IFILL: Was there any eye contact ever between Tsarnaev and any of these victims?

　　EMILY ROONEY: He made eye contact with two young men who were in the defense box. We have never seen them before. They were, I think, friends of his from either Cambridge Rindge and Latin or maybe UMass Dartmouth.

　　But he was looking in the direction of the victims. Many times, he did his usual thing. He just looked down and he was fooling with a pencil, or pulling on his beard. But clearly his attorneys told him he had to turn his chair to the side, so he could look at them. He was sort of facing them. So, yes, occasionally he looked up, he saw who was speaking. But I wouldn't go so far as to say he made eye contact.

　　GWEN IFILL: Now, we gather that some of the — for the prosecutor¹⁵, as well as some of the victims, they didn't really see remorse¹⁶ in his statement today.

　　EMILY ROONEY: You know, I don't know what anybody was expecting.

　　I think in some ways there were people who thought that there was a sincerity¹⁷ to it. He said it. He didn't have to say anything. His life is over. He's been sentenced. Going on saying nothing would have been the — I think it would have been disappointing, though.

　　I think people wanted to hear something. They wanted to hear him. And if the apology wasn't impassioned, at least it was there.

　　GWEN IFILL: Emily Rooney of WGBH News, who has been covering this for us, thank you very much.

1 lethal   

adj.致死的；毁灭性的

参考例句：

• A hammer can be a lethal weapon.铁锤可以是致命的武器。
• She took a lethal amount of poison and died.她服了致命剂量的毒药死了。

2 survivor   

n.生存者，残存者，幸存者

参考例句：

• The sole survivor of the crash was an infant.这次撞车的惟一幸存者是一个婴儿。
• There was only one survivor of the plane crash.这次飞机失事中只有一名幸存者。

3 survivors   

幸存者，残存者，生还者( survivor的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The survivors were adrift in a lifeboat for six days. 幸存者在救生艇上漂流了六天。
• survivors clinging to a raft 紧紧抓住救生筏的幸存者

4 disorder   

n.紊乱，混乱；骚动，骚乱；疾病，失调

参考例句：

• When returning back,he discovered the room to be in disorder.回家后，他发现屋子里乱七八糟。
• It contained a vast number of letters in great disorder.里面七零八落地装着许多信件。

5 leniency   

n.宽大（不严厉）

参考例句：

• udges are advised to show greater leniency towards first-time offenders.建议法官对初犯者宽大处理。
• Police offer leniency to criminals in return for information.警方给罪犯宽大处理以换取情报。

6 lenient   

adj.宽大的，仁慈的

参考例句：

• The judge was lenient with him.法官对他很宽大。
• It's a question of finding the means between too lenient treatment and too severe punishment.问题是要找出处理过宽和处罚过严的折中办法。

7 defense   

n.防御，保卫；[pl.]防务工事；辩护，答辩

参考例句：

• 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。

8 guilt   

n.犯罪；内疚；过失，罪责

参考例句：

• She tried to cover up her guilt by lying.她企图用谎言掩饰自己的罪行。
• Don't lay a guilt trip on your child about schoolwork.别因为功课责备孩子而使他觉得很内疚。

9 spoke   

n.（车轮的）辐条；轮辐；破坏某人的计划；阻挠某人的行动 v.讲，谈（speak的过去式）；说；演说；从某种观点来说

参考例句：

• They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
• The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。

10 egregious   

adj.非常的，过分的

参考例句：

• When it comes to blatant lies,there are none more egregious than budget figures.谈到公众谎言，没有比预算数字更令人震惊的。
• What an egregious example was here!现摆着一个多么触目惊心的例子啊。

11 recording   

n.录音，记录

参考例句：

• How long will the recording of the song take?录下这首歌得花多少时间？
• I want to play you a recording of the rehearsal.我想给你放一下彩排的录像。

12 recordings   

n.记录( recording的名词复数 )；录音；录像；唱片

参考例句：

• a boxed set of original recordings 一套盒装原声录音带
• old jazz recordings reissued on CD 以激光唱片重新发行的老爵士乐

13 somber   

adj.昏暗的，阴天的，阴森的，忧郁的

参考例句：

• He had a somber expression on his face.他面容忧郁。
• His coat was a somber brown.他的衣服是暗棕色的。

14 demeanor   

n.行为；风度

参考例句：

• She is quiet in her demeanor.她举止文静。
• The old soldier never lost his military demeanor.那个老军人从来没有失去军人风度。

15 prosecutor   

n.起诉人；检察官，公诉人

参考例句：

• The defender argued down the prosecutor at the court.辩护人在法庭上驳倒了起诉人。
• The prosecutor would tear your testimony to pieces.检查官会把你的证言驳得体无完肤。

16 remorse   

n.痛恨，悔恨，自责

参考例句：

• She had no remorse about what she had said.她对所说的话不后悔。
• He has shown no remorse for his actions.他对自己的行为没有任何悔恨之意。

17 sincerity   

n.真诚，诚意；真实

参考例句：

• His sincerity added much more authority to the story.他的真诚更增加了故事的说服力。
• He tried hard to satisfy me of his sincerity.他竭力让我了解他的诚意。