意大利小三电话骚扰正室被罚300欧元

 　　An Italian woman who made anonymous¹ calls to her lover's wife to tell her of their affair has been told she must pay a €400 (?287) fine for harassment².

　　意大利一名女子给情人的妻子打匿名电话，揭露他们的情事，被法院以骚扰罪判处300欧元的罚款。

　　The woman, named locally as Annamaria D.R., also told her lover's wife about other affairs her husband had allegedly been having in Bari and Potenza, southern Italy.

　　这位名叫安娜玛利亚的女子同时还在电话里向情人的妻子揭露了其夫在意大利南部城市巴里和波坦察有过的风流韵事。

　　She argued in court during an appeal hearing that because her lover's wife did not hang up on her calls immediately, it was clear she was interested in what was being said.

　　这名女子在法庭上诉中表示，情人的妻子并没有立即挂断她的电话，很明显是对自己所说的内容很感兴趣。

　　The mistress tried to overturn a conviction of harassment originally issued by the Court of Potenza in 2013.

　　这名女子试图推翻波坦察法院在2013年对其作出的骚扰罪判决。

　　意大利小三电话骚扰正室被罚300欧元

　　However, Italy's Supreme³ Court in Rome ruled that the fact the wife did not interrupt the calls "cannot be seen as acquiescence⁴ on the wife's part, given the serious nature of what was being revealed."

　　不过，位于罗马的意大利最高法院判决称，“鉴于当时电话中所说事情的严重性，”那位妻子没有挂断电话“并不能被看做默许。”

　　"The petulant⁵ and disturbing nature of the calls is shown in the anonymous forms they took," said the ruling.

　　判决书表示：“匿名电话的任性、骚扰本质已显露无疑。”

　　The court upheld the original conviction of harassment, with judges saying that an anonymous call to reveal an affair is a reprehensible⁶ act regardless of whether the claim is true.

　　法庭维持了原判，法官表示，用匿名电话揭露婚外情是一种不道德的行为，无论揭露的事实是否属实。

　　The mistress called her lover's wife a total of three times, once from her office phone and twice from her mobile, to tell her that her husband had betrayed her many times and continued to do so. One call lasted 28 minutes, another 11 minutes.

　　这名女子一共给她情人的妻子打了三次电话，一次从办公室电话打出，两次用她的手机打出，在电话中她对那位妻子表示，她的丈夫已经背叛过她很多次，而且并未停手。有一通电话持续了28分钟，还有一通持续了11分钟。

　　The wife, who cannot be named due to privacy laws, later decided⁷ to file a complaint and requested the examination of her phone records to trace the call.

　　那位妻子，因为隐私法原因不能透露其姓名，后来决定提起诉讼，并要求对其通话记录进行彻查以追踪到呼叫人。

　　According to a 2010 survey, half of Italians have extramarital affairs. The study by the Italian Association for Family Lawyers found that 55 per cent of men and 45 per cent of women cheat on their wives or husbands.

　　据2010年的一项调查显示，半数意大利人有过婚外情。由意大利家庭律师协会进行的这项调查同时发现，55%的男性和45%的女性都曾出轨。

　　In around half of cases, cheating partners are found out through indiscreet mobile phone text messages, emails betray one in five and a further one in 10 are given away by anonymous letters.

　　在半数的出轨案件中，出轨一方是被言辞不检的手机短信出卖的，被邮件出卖者占五分之一，另有十分之一是被匿名信揭露的。

　　Vocabulary

　　overturn a conviction : 推翻判决

　　acquiescence: 默许

　　petulant：任性的

　　reprehensible：不道德的

1 anonymous   

adj.无名的；匿名的；无特色的

参考例句：

• Sending anonymous letters is a cowardly act.寄匿名信是懦夫的行为。
• The author wishes to remain anonymous.作者希望姓名不公开。

2 harassment   

n.骚扰，扰乱，烦恼，烦乱

参考例句：

• She often got telephone harassment at night these days.这些天她经常在夜晚受到电话骚扰。
• The company prohibits any form of harassment.公司禁止任何形式的骚扰行为。

3 supreme   

adj.极度的，最重要的；至高的，最高的

参考例句：

• It was the supreme moment in his life.那是他一生中最重要的时刻。
• He handed up the indictment to the supreme court.他把起诉书送交最高法院。

4 acquiescence   

n.默许；顺从

参考例句：

• The chief inclined his head in sign of acquiescence.首领点点头表示允许。
• This is due to his acquiescence.这是因为他的默许。

5 petulant   

adj.性急的，暴躁的

参考例句：

• He picked the pen up with a petulant gesture.他生气地拿起那支钢笔。
• The thing had been remarked with petulant jealousy by his wife.

6 reprehensible   

adj.该受责备的

参考例句：

• Lying is not seen as being morally reprehensible in any strong way.人们并不把撒谎当作一件应该大加谴责的事儿。
• It was reprehensible of him to be so disloyal.他如此不忠，应受谴责。

7 decided   

adj.决定了的，坚决的；明显的，明确的

参考例句：

• This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
• There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。