汉森·罗伯特先生被指控为间谍

                   06 汉森·罗伯特先生被指控为间谍

DATE=3-3-01 TITLE=IN THE NEWS #470 - Spy Case BYLINE=Paul Thompson
     (start at 1'06") This is Steve Ember with the VOA Special English program, IN THE NEWS.
     (1)Investigations continue in the case of an (2)agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation¹ who is accused of (3)spying.
     The United States government has presented more than one-hundred-pages of legal (4)documents to a (5)court. They contain charges that Robert Hanssen began working as a spy for the former Soviet² Union in Nineteen-Eighty-Five. The documents say he continued spying for the Russian Federation³ until his arrest Sunday, February Eighteenth. Mister Hanssen is accused of accepting one and a half million dollars and (6)diamonds as payment for his work as a spy.
     Mister Hanssen reportedly provided Russia with more than six-thousand pages of secret American documents. Government investigators⁴ say it may be several months before they know how much damage has been done to the national (7)security of the United States.
     F-B-I Director Louis Freeh said a (8)committee will study the damage done by Mister Hanssen's reported spying. Former F-B-I Director William Webster will head it.
     Robert Hanssen's work in the F-B-I involved investigating foreign (9)citizens who might be spying in the United States. He served as the F-B-I's link to the State (10)Department for the past five years. Part of his job was to carry secret intelligence documents between the F-B-I and the State Department. Officials say this provided him with information about suspected (11)intelligence agents in the United States.
     F-B-I officials had received information that Mister Hanssen might be spying. They began watching him closely in January. The F-B-I began gathering⁵ evidence against him. He was arrested February Twentieth.
     The Senate Intelligence Committee met Wednesday with Mister Freeh, Attorney General John Ashcroft and Central Intelligence Agency Director George Tenet. Senator Richard Shelby heads the committee. He told reporters the committee wanted to know how an F-B-I agent could have been a spy for fifteen years without being caught. He said the committee was not satisfied with the answers and will continue to investigate.
     Government lawyers say Mister Hanssen could face a death sentence if he is found guilty in a future trial. They say documents from the former Soviet Union show that he may have identified two Soviet agents working for the United States who were killed.
     Mister Hanssen has a wife and six children. Family members, friends and other F-B-I agents say they cannot understand why he would spy for a foreign government. They say he always spoke⁶ strongly against the former Soviet Union and the (12)communist system of government. They also say they do not think he did this work for the money.
     Mister Hanssen's lawyers have said he is expected to say he is not guilty of the charges when he appears in court.
     This VOA Special English program IN THE NEWS was written by Paul Thompson. This is Steve Ember.

(1) investigation[ in7vesti5^eiFEn ]n.调查, 研究
(2) agent[ 5eidVEnt ]n.代理(商)
(3) spy[ spai ]n.特工人员, 间谍, 侦探, 探员, 秘密侦察他人行动者v.侦察, 侦察, 发现
(4) document[ 5dCkjumEnt ]n.公文, 文件, 文档, 档案, 文献v.证明
(5) court[ kC:t ]n.法院, 庭院, 朝廷, 宫庭, 球场, 奉承, 求爱,
(6) diamond[ 5daiEmEnd ]n.钻石, 菱形
(7) security[ si5kjuEriti ]n.安全
(8) committee[ kE5miti ]n.委员会
(9) citizen[ 5sitizn ]n.市民, 公民
(10) department[ di5pB:tmEnt ]n.部, 局, 处, 科, 部门, 系, 学部
(11) intelligence[ in5telidVEns ]n.智力, 聪明, 智能
(12) communist[ 5kCmjunist ]n.共产主义者, 共产党员adj.共产主义者的

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 Soviet   

adj.苏联的，苏维埃的；n.苏维埃

参考例句：

• Zhukov was a marshal of the former Soviet Union.朱可夫是前苏联的一位元帅。
• Germany began to attack the Soviet Union in 1941.德国在1941年开始进攻苏联。

3 federation   

n.同盟，联邦，联合，联盟，联合会

参考例句：

• It is a federation of 10 regional unions.它是由十个地方工会结合成的联合会。
• Mr.Putin was inaugurated as the President of the Russian Federation.普京正式就任俄罗斯联邦总统。

4 investigators   

n.调查者，审查者( investigator的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• This memo could be the smoking gun that investigators have been looking for. 这份备忘录可能是调查人员一直在寻找的证据。
• The team consisted of six investigators and two secretaries. 这个团队由六个调查人员和两个秘书组成。 来自《简明英汉词典》

5 gathering   

n.集会，聚会，聚集

参考例句：

• He called on Mr. White to speak at the gathering.他请怀特先生在集会上讲话。
• He is on the wing gathering material for his novels.他正忙于为他的小说收集资料。

6 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。