VOA慢速英语2015 巴尔的摩对Freddie Gray的死因调查工作结束

Baltimore Police End Investigation¹ of Freddie Gray’s Death 巴尔的摩对Freddie Gray的死因调查工作结束

Police in Baltimore, Maryland, have completed their investigation into the death of a young black man in police detention². He died April 19 of a spinal³ cord injury he suffered on April 12 when he was detained. Freddie Gray’s death led to rioting in the city earlier this week.

Police gave their report to prosecutors⁵. They will decide whether to charge six police officers involved in Mr. Gray’s arrest. All six have been suspended, with pay, during the investigation.

Baltimore remained quiet Thursday, three days after riots that followed Freddie Gray’s funeral.

Pakistan sentences 10 men for attack on Malala Yousufzai

A Pakistani court has sentenced 10 men to life in prison for the 2012 shooting of a 15-year-old education activist⁶.

Malala Yousufzai was attacked on a school bus in Pakistan’s Swat Valley. Two of the men sentenced Thursday were present during the attack. The others helped plan it. The ten men will spend at least 25 years in jail.

The Pakistani Taliban group claimed responsibility for the attack. It threatened to target Malala again if she ever returned to Pakistan. The 17-year-old Nobel peace prize winner now lives in Britain.

Nigerian army says another 150 people freed from Boko Haram

The Nigerian army says it has freed another 150 people who were held by the militant⁷ group Boko Haram.

An army official told VOA that troops rescued about 100 children and 50 women on Wednesday in the Sambisa Forest in northeastern Nigeria.  

The large forest holds many Boko Haram camps. It is believed to be the place where the group took many of the thousands of Nigerians it kidnapped over the past few years.

The army said it also freed 200 girls and 93 women from the forest on Tuesday. Reporters have not yet seen the women and girls, and the military has released no photos of them.

Liberal U.S. senator enters 2016 presidential race

Vermont Senator Bernie Sanders has entered the 2016 U.S. presidential race.  

Mr. Sanders is 73 years old and the longest-serving independent in congressional history. He is a self-described democratic socialist⁸.

Mr. Sanders announced Thursday at the U.S. Capitol that he will compete in the Democratic Party primary. He said that his campaign will center on the issue of income inequality.  

Teenager rescued five days after Nepal earthquake

A 15-year-old boy was pulled out alive from the ruins of a hotel in Kathmandu on Thursday.  A powerful earthquake shook Nepal five days earlier, killing⁹ almost 5,500 people.

Nepal’s Armed Police Force rescued the boy. He is resting in a hospital. A doctor who treated him said he is expected to make a good recovery.

Hundreds of people nearby the rescue cheered when they saw the teenager was alive.

Words in the News

prosecutor⁴ - n. a lawyer who represents the side in a court case that accuses a person of a crime and who tries to prove that the person is guilty

independent - n. a person who does not belong to a political party

primary - n. an election in which members of the same political party run against each other for the chance to be in a larger and more important election

1 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。

2 detention   

n.滞留，停留；拘留，扣留；(教育)留下

参考例句：

• He was kept in detention by the police.他被警察扣留了。
• He was in detention in connection with the bribery affair.他因与贿赂事件有牵连而被拘留了。

3 spinal   

adj.针的，尖刺的，尖刺状突起的；adj.脊骨的，脊髓的

参考例句：

• After three days in Japan,the spinal column becomes extraordinarily flexible.在日本三天，就已经使脊椎骨变得富有弹性了。
• Your spinal column is made up of 24 movable vertebrae.你的脊柱由24个活动的脊椎骨构成。

4 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。

5 prosecutors   

检举人( prosecutor的名词复数 )； 告发人； 起诉人； 公诉人

参考例句：

• In some places,public prosecutors are elected rather than appointed. 在有些地方，检察官是经选举而非任命产生的。 来自口语例句
• You've been summoned to the Prosecutors' Office, 2 days later. 你在两天以后被宣到了检察官的办公室。

6 activist   

n.活动分子，积极分子

参考例句：

• He's been a trade union activist for many years.多年来他一直是工会的积极分子。
• He is a social activist in our factory.他是我厂的社会活动积极分子。

7 militant   

adj.激进的，好斗的；n.激进分子，斗士

参考例句：

• Some militant leaders want to merge with white radicals.一些好斗的领导人要和白人中的激进派联合。
• He is a militant in the movement.他在那次运动中是个激进人物。

8 socialist   

n.社会主义者；adj.社会主义的

参考例句：

• China is a socialist country,and a developing country as well.中国是一个社会主义国家，也是一个发展中国家。
• His father was an ardent socialist.他父亲是一个热情的社会主义者。

9 killing   

n.巨额利润；突然赚大钱，发大财

参考例句：

• Investors are set to make a killing from the sell-off.投资者准备清仓以便大赚一笔。
• Last week my brother made a killing on Wall Street.上个周我兄弟在华尔街赚了一大笔。