VOA常速英语2023 白人男子枪击黑人青少年

白人男子枪击黑人青少年

　　An 85-year-old white man who shot a Black teen at his front door in the US Midwestern state of Missouri last week has been charged with armed assault, and a prosecutor¹ said Monday there was a racial component² to the case.

　　上周，在美国中西部密苏里州，一名85岁的白人男子在自己的前门开枪打中了一名黑人青少年，他的行为被指控为武装袭击，一名检察官周一表示，此案存在种族因素。

　　Andrew Lester shot 16-year-old Ralph Yarl, who is recovering at home after being released from the hospital on Sunday.

　　安德鲁·莱斯特开枪打中了16岁的拉尔夫·亚尔，他周日出院后正在家中康复。

　　Yarl approached the wrong house to pick up his younger brothers.

　　亚尔去接弟弟们时走错了地方。

　　A US Air National Guardsman applied³ to be a hitman but the job advertisement was a joke.

　　一名美国空军国民警卫队队员申请成为一名职业杀手，但招聘广告只是个玩笑。

　　The AP's Lisa Dwyer reports.

　　美联社丽莎·德怀尔报道。

　　A Tennessee Air National Guardsman has been arrested after federal agents say he responded to a parody⁴ website promoting jobs for hitmen.

　　一名田纳西州空军国民警卫队队员被联邦特工逮捕，原因是他回应了一家宣传职业杀手的恶搞网站。

　　Josiah Garcia submitted an employment application February 16 to the website RentAHitman.com 

　　约西亚·加西亚于2月16日向“职业杀手在租”网站提交了一份就业申请。

　　and sent several follow-up emails over the next month that included his name, address, phone, number, date of birth and a photo of his Tennessee driver's license⁵.

　　在接下来的一个月里，他又发了几封电子邮件，其中包括他的姓名、地址、电话、号码、出生日期和一张他在田纳西州的驾照照片。

　　An undercover agent provided Garcia with a fictional⁶ "target package" and $2,500.

　　一名秘密特工向加西亚提供了一个虚构的“目标包裹”和2500美元。

　　If convicted, he faces up to 10 years in prison.

　　如果罪名成立，他将面临最高10年的监禁。

　　I'm Lisa Dwyer.

　　我是丽莎·德怀尔。

　　EU lawmakers urged world leaders on Monday to hold a summit to find ways to control the development of advanced artificial intelligence systems such as ChatGPT, saying they were developing faster than expected.

　　欧盟立法者周一敦促世界领导人举行峰会，寻找控制ChatGPT等先进人工智能系统发展的方法，称这些系统的发展速度快于预期。

　　The 12 MEPs, all working on EU legislation on the technology, called on US President Joe Biden and European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen to convene⁷ the meeting, and said AI firms should be more responsible.

　　12名欧洲议会议员都在研究欧盟关于该技术的立法，他们呼吁美国总统拜登和欧盟委员会主席乌尔苏拉·冯·德莱恩召开会议，并表示人工智能公司更应该负责任。

　　The statement came weeks after Twitter owner Elon Musk⁸ and more than 1,000 technology figures demanded a six-month pause in the development of systems more powerful than Microsoft-backed OpenAI's latest iteration of ChatGPT, which can mimic⁹ humans and create text and images based on prompts.

 

　　几周前，推特所有者埃隆·马斯克和1000多名技术人士要求六个月内暂停开发比ChatGPT最新版本更强大的系统，这是微软支持的开放人工智能，该系统可以模仿人类，并根据提示创建文本和图像。

1 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。

2 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。

3 applied   

adj.应用的；v.应用，适用

参考例句：

• She plans to take a course in applied linguistics.她打算学习应用语言学课程。
• This cream is best applied to the face at night.这种乳霜最好晚上擦脸用。

4 parody   

n.打油诗文，诙谐的改编诗文，拙劣的模仿；v.拙劣模仿，作模仿诗文

参考例句：

• The parody was just a form of teasing.那个拙劣的模仿只是一种揶揄。
• North Korea looks like a grotesque parody of Mao's centrally controlled China,precisely the sort of system that Beijing has left behind.朝鲜看上去像是毛时代中央集权的中国的怪诞模仿，其体制恰恰是北京方面已经抛弃的。

5 license   

n.执照，许可证，特许；v.许可，特许

参考例句：

• The foreign guest has a license on the person.这个外国客人随身携带执照。
• The driver was arrested for having false license plates on his car.司机由于使用假车牌而被捕。

6 fictional   

adj.小说的，虚构的

参考例句：

• The names of the shops are entirely fictional.那些商店的名字完全是虚构的。
• The two authors represent the opposite poles of fictional genius.这两位作者代表了天才小说家两个极端。

7 convene   

v.集合，召集，召唤，聚集，集合

参考例句：

• The Diet will convene at 3p.m. tomorrow.国会将于明天下午三点钟开会。
• Senior officials convened in October 1991 in London.1991年10月，高级官员在伦敦会齐。

8 musk   

n.麝香, 能发出麝香的各种各样的植物，香猫

参考例句：

• Musk is used for perfume and stimulant.麝香可以用作香料和兴奋剂。
• She scented her clothes with musk.她用麝香使衣服充满了香味。

9 mimic   

v.模仿，戏弄；n.模仿他人言行的人

参考例句：

• A parrot can mimic a person's voice.鹦鹉能学人的声音。
• He used to mimic speech peculiarities of another.他过去总是模仿别人讲话的特点。