PBS高端访谈:美国大学生在进入昏迷状态后被朝鲜方面释放

 　　Now to the release of Otto Warmbier from captivity¹ in North Korea.

　　The American college student was arrested almost 18 months ago during a trip to the reclusive nation, and he was sentenced to 15 years in prison.

　　This morning came word suddenly that the United States had secured his release,

　　but under apparently² desperate circumstances. Warmbier is comatose⁴, and has been for a year.

　　An American delegation⁵ in Pyongyang petitioned for his immediate⁶ release yesterday.

　　Our chief foreign affairs correspondent, Margaret Warner, reports.

　　At the president's direction, the Department of State has secured the release of Otto Warmbier from North Korea.

　　The announcement came from Secretary of State Rex Tillerson at a Senate budget hearing.

　　The 22-year-old University of Virginia student was finally free, after being jailed by the North's repressive regime for 17 months.

　　Anna Fifield has been reporting the story for The Washington Post. She spoke⁸ via Skype from Tokyo.

　　What I have been told is that, last Monday, June the 5th, the North Koreans actually approached Americans who they talk to,

　　and they said that Otto Warmbier was in a coma³ and had been in a coma for more than a year.

　　And that started the ball rolling to have him medically evacuated⁹.

　　The North Koreans said that he came down with a case of botulism soon after his sentencing,

　　and that he was given a sleeping pill and fell into a coma, and he didn't wake up from that.

　　Warmbier's parents confirmed their son is in a coma, and had been medically evacuated.

　　In a statement to the Associated Press, they also said: "We want the world to know how we and our son have been brutalized and terrorized by the pariah¹⁰ regime."

　　Warmbier was arrested after he allegedly took a propaganda poster from the wall of a Pyongyang hotel on New Year's Eve, 2015.

　　He'd been in North Korea as part of a tour group. In March last year, he was sentenced to 15 years hard labor¹¹.

　　I have made the worst mistake of my life.

　　In the past, Pyongyang has used detained American citizens to try to exert leverage¹² over the U.S.

　　But Anna Fifield says, this time, the North had appeared unwilling¹³ to bargain.

　　It didn't respond to U.S. offers to send a high-level envoy¹⁴ to discuss Warmbier and three other Americans held by the North. One was arrested just last month.

　　Pyongyang's attitude changed in May. It agreed to let Swedish diplomats¹⁵ visit the prisoners,

　　and with news of Warmbier's dire⁷ condition, Pyongyang urgently requested a meeting with a top U.S. official at the U.N. last week.

　　At that point, Fifield said, President Trump¹⁶ got involved.

　　Once Otto Warmbier's condition was known, I'm told that the president did become involved, that he was informed,

　　that he personally gave the order to do everything that they could to get Otto Warmbier out.

　　The release comes at a time of heightened tensions between Washington and the regime of Kim Jong-un.

　　Pyongyang has ramped¹⁷ up its nuclear and missile programs.

　　In response, the U.S. has taken a tough tack¹⁸, and recently began deploying¹⁹ the advanced anti-missile defense²⁰ known as THAAD to South Korea.

　　But Fifield says another motivation may have driven the North Koreans.

　　I think the North Koreans have probably realized that they did need to get rid of Otto Warmbier at some stage, that he wasn't recovering, and they needed to hand him back.

　　The release also coincides with former NBA player Dennis Rodman's latest visit to Pyongyang.

　　Fifield says she was told Rodman's visit had nothing to with the freeing of Warmbier.

　　Warmbier was flown first to an American military medical facility in Japan, then flown on to Cincinnati, near his family's home.

　　For the PBS NewsHour, I'm Margaret Warner. undefined

1 captivity   

n.囚禁；被俘；束缚

参考例句：

• A zoo is a place where live animals are kept in captivity for the public to see.动物园是圈养动物以供公众观看的场所。
• He was held in captivity for three years.他被囚禁叁年。

2 apparently   

adv.显然地；表面上，似乎

参考例句：

• An apparently blind alley leads suddenly into an open space.山穷水尽，豁然开朗。
• He was apparently much surprised at the news.他对那个消息显然感到十分惊异。

3 coma   

n.昏迷，昏迷状态

参考例句：

• The patient rallied from the coma.病人从昏迷中苏醒过来。
• She went into a coma after swallowing a whole bottle of sleeping pills.她吃了一整瓶安眠药后就昏迷过去了。

4 comatose   

adj.昏睡的，昏迷不醒的

参考例句：

• Those in extreme fear can be put into a comatose type state.那些极端恐惧的人可能会被安放进一种昏迷状态。
• The doctors revived the comatose man.这个医生使这个昏睡的苏醒了。

5 delegation   

n.代表团；派遣

参考例句：

• The statement of our delegation was singularly appropriate to the occasion.我们代表团的声明非常适合时宜。
• We shall inform you of the date of the delegation's arrival.我们将把代表团到达的日期通知你。

6 immediate   

adj.立即的；直接的，最接近的；紧靠的

参考例句：

• His immediate neighbours felt it their duty to call.他的近邻认为他们有责任去拜访。
• We declared ourselves for the immediate convocation of the meeting.我们主张立即召开这个会议。

7 dire   

adj.可怕的，悲惨的，阴惨的，极端的

参考例句：

• There were dire warnings about the dangers of watching too much TV.曾经有人就看电视太多的危害性提出严重警告。
• We were indeed in dire straits.But we pulled through.那时我们的困难真是大极了，但是我们渡过了困难。

8 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。

9 evacuated   

撤退者的

参考例句：

• Police evacuated nearby buildings. 警方已将附近大楼的居民疏散。
• The fireman evacuated the guests from the burning hotel. 消防队员把客人们从燃烧着的旅馆中撤出来。

10 pariah   

n.被社会抛弃者

参考例句：

• Shortly Tom came upon the juvenile pariah of the village.不一会儿，汤姆碰上了村里的少年弃儿。
• His landlady had treated him like a dangerous criminal,a pariah.房东太太对待他就像对待危险的罪犯、对待社会弃儿一样。

11 labor   

n.劳动，努力，工作，劳工；分娩；vi.劳动，努力，苦干；vt.详细分析；麻烦

参考例句：

• We are never late in satisfying him for his labor.我们从不延误付给他劳动报酬。
• He was completely spent after two weeks of hard labor.艰苦劳动两周后，他已经疲惫不堪了。

12 leverage   

n.力量，影响；杠杆作用，杠杆的力量

参考例句：

• We'll have to use leverage to move this huge rock.我们不得不借助杠杆之力来移动这块巨石。
• He failed in the project because he could gain no leverage. 因为他没有影响力，他的计划失败了。

13 unwilling   

adj.不情愿的

参考例句：

• The natives were unwilling to be bent by colonial power.土著居民不愿受殖民势力的摆布。
• His tightfisted employer was unwilling to give him a raise.他那吝啬的雇主不肯给他加薪。

14 envoy   

n.使节，使者，代表，公使

参考例句：

• Their envoy showed no sign of responding to our proposals.他们的代表对我方的提议毫无回应的迹象。
• The government has not yet appointed an envoy to the area.政府尚未向这一地区派过外交官。

15 diplomats   

n.外交官( diplomat的名词复数 )；有手腕的人，善于交际的人

参考例句：

• These events led to the expulsion of senior diplomats from the country. 这些事件导致一些高级外交官被驱逐出境。
• The court has no jurisdiction over foreign diplomats living in this country. 法院对驻本国的外交官无裁判权。 来自《简明英汉词典》

16 trump   

n.王牌，法宝；v.打出王牌，吹喇叭

参考例句：

• He was never able to trump up the courage to have a showdown.他始终鼓不起勇气摊牌。
• The coach saved his star player for a trump card.教练保留他的明星选手，作为他的王牌。

17 ramped   

土堤斜坡( ramp的过去式和过去分词 )； 斜道； 斜路； （装车或上下飞机的）活动梯

参考例句：

• With the arrival of George Lucas, the pace has ramped up. 随着乔治·卢卡斯的到来，速度大大加快。
• They also sold corporate bonds as the global financial crisis ramped up. 在全球金融危机加剧之际，他们还抛售了公司债券。

18 tack   

n.大头钉；假缝，粗缝

参考例句：

• He is hammering a tack into the wall to hang a picture.他正往墙上钉一枚平头钉用来挂画。
• We are going to tack the map on the wall.我们打算把这张地图钉在墙上。

19 deploying   

（尤指军事行动）使展开( deploy的现在分词 )； 施展； 部署； 有效地利用

参考例句：

• Provides support for developing and deploying distributed, component-based applications. 为开发和部署基于组件的分布式应用程序提供支持。
• Advertisement, publishing, repair, and install-on-demand are all available when deploying your application. 在部署应用程序时提供公布、发布、修复和即需即装功能。

20 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。