VOA慢速英语2016 德国官员怀疑18名难民卷入新年袭击事件

AS IT IS 2016-01-09 German Officials Suspect 18 Asylum¹ Seekers in New Year's Attacks 德国官员怀疑18名难民卷入新年袭击事件

German officials say 18 asylum-seekers are among the suspects in thefts and sexual assaults on women in Cologne on New Year's Eve.

德国官方称在科隆新年前夕的盗窃和性侵妇女案中有18名嫌犯是难民。

Interior Ministry² official Tobias Plate spoke³ to reporters Friday morning. He said police have identified 31 suspects. Eighteen had earlier requested asylum in Germany.

内政部官员托拜厄斯·普拉特周五早上告诉记者，他说警方已经确认了31名嫌犯的身份，其中有18人早些时候在德国请求庇护。

Plate said two of the 31 suspects are German. Nine are Algerian, eight are from Morocco, five are Iranian, and four are Syrians. The remaining three are from Iraq, Serbia and the United States.

普拉特称在这31名嫌犯中有两人是德国人，9人是阿尔及利亚人，8人来自摩洛哥，5人是伊朗人，4人是叙利亚人，其他3人来自伊拉克、塞尔维亚和美国。

Police have documented 32 criminal acts. Plate said the large majority were tied to theft and physical injury. Three were tied to sexual assaults.

警方已经记录了32起刑事犯罪案，普莱特称大多数与盗窃和人身伤害有关，还有三起性侵案。

Also Friday, officials forced the police chief of Cologne to retire. He had faced growing criticism of the way his department dealt with the New Year’s Eve attacks.

同时在周五，官方迫使科隆警察局长辞职，他的部门因处理新年前夕袭击案不力面临越来越多的批评。

About 1,000 men had gathered near Cologne's main train station around midnight, throwing fireworks. After police moved in to stop them, smaller groups of men began surrounding women in the area. They reportedly groped the women and stole from them.

当时午夜时分，大约1000人聚集在科隆主要火车站投掷爆竹，警察前来阻止后，有一小群人开始包围现场的妇女，据悉他们对这些妇女搜身并偷窃了她们。

A policewoman said she was among those attacked.

一名女警察称自己也被袭击了。

About 90 people have filed criminal complaints, including one report of a rape⁴.

大约90人提起刑事诉讼，其中包括一桩强奸案。

The assaults have intensified⁵ the debate over Germany's immigration policies. Some 1.1 million people registered as asylum seekers in Germany last year.

袭击事件使得人们对于德国移民政策的争论变得更加激烈，去年有大约110万人在德国以难民身份登记。

Both Germany’s chancellor⁶ and its justice minister have called for the perpetrators to be punished.

德国总理和司法部长都呼吁惩治作恶者。

On Thursday, the German justice minister said any asylum-seekers among the suspects could be deported⁸ if found guilty.

周四，德国司法部长称将驱逐嫌犯中的任何有罪难民。

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assault – n. the crime of trying or threatening to hurt someone physically⁹?

grope – v. to touch (someone) in an unwanted and unexpected sexual way?

complaint – n.a formal charge saying that someone has done something wrong?

perpetrator – v. the doer of something that is illegal or wrong

deport⁷ – v. to force a person to leave a country ?of which she or he is not a citizen

1 asylum   

n.避难所，庇护所，避难

参考例句：

• The people ask for political asylum.人们请求政治避难。
• Having sought asylum in the West for many years,they were eventually granted it.他们最终获得了在西方寻求多年的避难权。

2 ministry   

n.(政府的)部；牧师

参考例句：

• They sent a deputation to the ministry to complain.他们派了一个代表团到部里投诉。
• We probed the Air Ministry statements.我们调查了空军部的记录。

3 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。

4 rape   

n.抢夺，掠夺，强奸；vt.掠夺，抢夺，强奸

参考例句：

• The rape of the countryside had a profound ravage on them.对乡村的掠夺给他们造成严重创伤。
• He was brought to court and charged with rape.他被带到法庭并被指控犯有强奸罪。

5 intensified   

v.（使）增强， （使）加剧( intensify的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• Violence intensified during the night. 在夜间暴力活动加剧了。
• The drought has intensified. 旱情加剧了。 来自《简明英汉词典》

6 chancellor   

n.(英)大臣；法官；(德、奥)总理；大学校长

参考例句：

• They submitted their reports to the Chancellor yesterday.他们昨天向财政大臣递交了报告。
• He was regarded as the most successful Chancellor of modern times.他被认为是现代最成功的财政大臣。

7 deport   

vt.驱逐出境

参考例句：

• We deport aliens who slip across our borders.我们把偷渡入境的外国人驱逐出境。
• More than 240 England football fans are being deported from Italy following riots last night.昨晚的骚乱发生后有240多名英格兰球迷被驱逐出意大利。

8 deported   

v.将…驱逐出境( deport的过去式和过去分词 )；举止

参考例句：

• They stripped me of my citizenship and deported me. 他们剥夺我的公民资格，将我驱逐出境。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The convicts were deported to a deserted island. 罪犯们被流放到一个荒岛。 来自《简明英汉词典》

9 physically   

adj.物质上，体格上，身体上，按自然规律

参考例句：

• He was out of sorts physically,as well as disordered mentally.他浑身不舒服，心绪也很乱。
• Every time I think about it I feel physically sick.一想起那件事我就感到极恶心。