VOA慢速英语2011-- Britain Shaken by Media Phone-Hacking

IN THE NEWS - Britain Shaken by Media Phone-Hacking¹

新闻报道 - 电话窃听门震惊英国朝野
This is IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English.
这里是美国之音慢速英语新闻报道节目。
British reporters are known for doing almost anything to get a story. But reports that a newspaper secretly listened to telephone messages of murdered schoolgirls and other private citizens have produced shock and anger.
众所周知英国记者为了得到新闻不择手段。但报纸窃听一位被谋杀女学生和其他公民电话信息的报道引发了人们的震惊和愤怒。
On Friday, British police arrested Andy Coulson, former editor of Britain's best-selling newspaper, News of the World. The investigation² led him to resign in January as communications director to Prime Minister David Cameron.
上周五，英国警方逮捕了英国最畅销报纸《世界新闻报》前主编安迪·库尔森（Andy Coulson）。对他的调查导致他一月份被迫辞去首相卡梅伦新闻主管一职。
The arrest came in a widening investigation of telephone hacking. Other accusations³ include paying police for information on stories. The Reuters news agency reported that Mr. Coulson was released on bail⁴ until a date in October.
这次逮捕发生在电话窃听扩大调查之后。其他指控包括向警察购买新闻。路透社报道称，库尔森被保释至今年10月。
Prime Minister Cameron promised Friday that a judge will lead a full public inquiry⁵ into the case after police complete their investigation.
卡梅伦首相周五承诺在警方完成调查后，法官将对这个案子进行全面公开调查。
DAVID CAMERON: "Murder victims, terrorist victims, families who have lost loved ones, sometimes defending our country, that these people could have had their phones hacked⁶ into, in order to generate stories for a newspaper, is simply disgusting."
卡梅伦：“谋杀和恐怖主义受害者，失去亲人的家庭，有时还包括国家保卫者，这些人的手机都可能已经被侵入，以便让报纸获得新闻，这简直令人作呕。”
He also called for a second investigation.
他同时呼吁对此展开二次调查。
DAVID CAMERON: "The second inquiry should look at the culture, the practices and the ethics⁷ of the British press. In particular, they should look at how our newspapers are regulated and make recommendations for the future. Of course, it is vital that our press is free, that is an essential component⁸ for our democracy, for our way of life. But press freedom does not mean that the press should be above the law."
卡梅伦：“第二次调查应该着眼于英国新闻界的“文化、做法以及道德操守”。特别是，他们应该着眼于报纸如何监管，并为未来提出建议。当然，新闻自由是至关重要的，这对我们的民主和生活来说是不可或缺的一部分。但新闻自由并不意味着英国新闻界可以凌驾于法律之上。”
On Thursday, the company News International said it will stop publishing the weekly News of the World. News International belongs to Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation, also known as News Corp. The one hundred sixty-eight-year-old newspaper will publish for the last time on Sunday.
上周四，国际新闻公司表示将停止出版每周出版的《世界新闻报》。国际新闻公司隶属于鲁珀特·默多克（Rupert Murdoch）的新闻集团。本周日，这份有着168年历史的报纸将最后一次出版。
The case is not new. But new evidence may show that the phone of a murdered schoolgirl, Millie Dowler, was hacked while she was declared missing in two thousand two. Some phone messages may have been deleted to make room for more messages, giving her family false hope that she was still alive.
这并非新案件。但新的证据显示，被谋杀女学生米莉·道勒（Millie Dowler）2002年失踪期间，她的手机曾被侵入。一些手机信息可能被删除以腾出空间接收新信息。致使其家人误以为她还活着。
Police say possible victims also include relatives of those killed in the London transport bombings on July seventh, two thousand five. Others whose phones may have been hacked include parents of soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan.
警方表示，潜在受害者还包括2005年7月16日伦敦地铁爆炸案遇难者亲属。其他手机可能被侵入的人还包括在伊拉克和阿富汗阵亡士兵的父母。
Prime Minister Cameron called the hacking reports, "disgusting," "disgraceful" and despicable." But he himself is facing attention for having asked Andy Coulson to serve as his media adviser⁹. Mr. Coulson resigned from News of the World in two thousand seven. He left when a reporter and a private investigator¹⁰ were briefly¹¹ jailed for listening to the phone messages of aides to Britain’s royal family.
卡梅伦首相称这些手机侵入报告是“令人憎恶、可耻和卑鄙的。”但他也因聘请库尔森作为其媒体顾问而备受关注。库尔森2007年从《世界新闻报》辞职，当时该报一位记者和一名私人侦探因窃听王室助手的手机信息而短暂入狱。
The prime minister says Mr. Coulson told him he had no knowledge of the phone hacking incidents. He says he wanted to give Mr. Coulson a "second chance."
卡梅伦总理表示，库尔森当时声称自己对手机窃听事件一无所知，他就想着给库尔森“第二次机会。”
Rupert Murdoch was at a conference of media and technology leaders in Idaho on Thursday, but had no comment for reporters.
默多克周四参加了在美国爱达荷州举办的一次媒体和科技领导人会议，但没有对记者发表评论。
RUPERT MURDOCH: "I have nothing to say at this stage.”
默多克：“现阶段我没什么好说的。”
Rupert Murdoch was born in Australia. He became a citizen of the United States in nineteen eighty-five so he could buy American television stations. His father, Keith Murdoch, was a famous World War One reporter who later led an Australian newspaper group. After his father died, the younger Murdoch took control of the two newspapers that his father owned.
默多克出生于澳大利亚。他1985年成为美国公民，这样他就能购买美国的电视台。他的父亲基思·默多克(Keith Murdoch)是一位著名的一战战地记者，随后领导了澳大利亚一家报业集团。小默多克在父亲去世后控制了父亲拥有的两家报纸。
Today, he is a media "colossus," says Ivor Gaber, a journalism¹² professor at London's City University.
伦敦城市大学新闻学教授艾弗·盖贝尔（Ivor Gaber）表示，如今，默多克是媒体巨子。
IVOR GABER: "He doesn't control the media in every country but it's very difficult to travel to most parts of this world without encountering a Rupert Murdoch media product."
盖贝尔：“他并未控制每个国家的媒体。但在这个世界上大部分地区很难不碰到默多克的媒体产品。”
And that's IN THE NEWS in VOA Special English. I'm Steve Ember.
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Contributing: Henry Ridgwell

1 hacking   

n.非法访问计算机系统和数据库的活动

参考例句：

• The patient with emphysema is hacking all day. 这个肺气肿病人整天不断地干咳。
• We undertook the task of hacking our way through the jungle. 我们负责在丛林中开路。

2 investigation   

n.调查，调查研究

参考例句：

• In an investigation,a new fact became known, which told against him.在调查中新发现了一件对他不利的事实。
• He drew the conclusion by building on his own investigation.他根据自己的调查研究作出结论。

3 accusations   

n.指责( accusation的名词复数 )；指控；控告；（被告发、控告的）罪名

参考例句：

• There were accusations of plagiarism. 曾有过关于剽窃的指控。
• He remained unruffled by their accusations. 对于他们的指控他处之泰然。

4 bail   

v.舀（水），保释；n.保证金，保释，保释人

参考例句：

• One of the prisoner's friends offered to bail him out.犯人的一个朋友答应保释他出来。
• She has been granted conditional bail.她被准予有条件保释。

5 inquiry   

n.打听，询问，调查，查问

参考例句：

• Many parents have been pressing for an inquiry into the problem.许多家长迫切要求调查这个问题。
• The field of inquiry has narrowed down to five persons.调查的范围已经缩小到只剩5个人了。

6 hacked   

生气

参考例句：

• I hacked the dead branches off. 我把枯树枝砍掉了。
• I'm really hacked off. 我真是很恼火。

7 ethics   

n.伦理学；伦理观，道德标准

参考例句：

• The ethics of his profession don't permit him to do that.他的职业道德不允许他那样做。
• Personal ethics and professional ethics sometimes conflict.个人道德和职业道德有时会相互抵触。

8 component   

n.组成部分，成分，元件；adj.组成的，合成的

参考例句：

• Each component is carefully checked before assembly.每个零件在装配前都经过仔细检查。
• Blade and handle are the component parts of a knife.刀身和刀柄是一把刀的组成部分。

9 adviser   

n.劝告者，顾问

参考例句：

• They employed me as an adviser.他们聘请我当顾问。
• Our department has engaged a foreign teacher as phonetic adviser.我们系已经聘请了一位外籍老师作为语音顾问。

10 investigator   

n.研究者，调查者，审查者

参考例句：

• He was a special investigator for the FBI.他是联邦调查局的特别调查员。
• The investigator was able to deduce the crime and find the criminal.调查者能够推出犯罪过程并锁定罪犯。

11 briefly   

adv.简单地，简短地

参考例句：

• I want to touch briefly on another aspect of the problem.我想简单地谈一下这个问题的另一方面。
• He was kidnapped and briefly detained by a terrorist group.他被一个恐怖组织绑架并短暂拘禁。

12 journalism   

n.新闻工作，报业

参考例句：

• He's a teacher but he does some journalism on the side.他是教师，可还兼职做一些新闻工作。
• He had an aptitude for journalism.他有从事新闻工作的才能。