PBS高端访谈:调查人员正在追寻尼斯卡车袭击案的动机

 　　HARI SREENIVASAN: France began three days of national mourning today for the victims of Thursday's terrorist truck attack in the Riviera resort city of Nice. Today, ISIS claimed responsibility saying the Tunisian man who drove the large truck was one of its soldiers, heeding¹ its call to kill citizens of France and other countries fighting the militant² group.

　　But french authorities have not confirmed the link. The death toll³ stands at 84… after the truck ran over pedestrians⁴ for a mile-and-a-half along Nice's promenade⁵ following Bastille day fireworks. Of more than 200 other people who were injured, about 50 remain hospitalized in critical condition.

　　Special correspondent Jane Ferguson has more from nice.

　　JANE FERGUSON: Signs of the horror are beginning to fade from Nice's Promenade des Anges.

　　Parts of this route along the French Riviera have re-opened, as tourists and locals cautiously return to a street known for its glamour⁶, history, and now tragedy. There are more police around, and many have gathered to mourn the dead.

　　Just to give you some perspective – now that the street has been re-opened – many are coming down to lay flowers and candles at the various spots where people were killed. So all down this street you can see small piles of flowers were each life was lost.

　　Nice has drawn⁷ visitors for centuries – its old world style and beauty are still unmistakable.

　　That's why Philip Frayne and his wife came here for a holiday. He works at the U.S. embassy and lives in Paris. They were on the promenade just a few minutes before the attacker struck. His wife wanted to stay and dance at the street party, but he wanted to go for dinner.

　　调查人员正在追寻尼斯卡车袭击案的动机

　　PHILIP FRAYNE: Had I taken my wife's wishes and stayed to dance at the time we probably would have been right in the crossfire⁸, but we decided⁹ to go get a bite to eat first, come back to dance later. That may have saved us, we don't know.

　　JANE FERGUSON: From a nearby restaurant they heard the attack.

　　PHILIP FRAYNE: Once gunshots were heard then we all knew we had to get inside and we had to remain low and there were a lot of people amongst us who were crying and who were very upset.

　　JANE FERGUSON: Other Americans caught up in the panic are still missing.

　　20-year-old Berkeley student Nicolas Leslie was at the scene of the attack and hasn't been seen since. His family is desperately¹⁰ trying to find him.

　　A California family is turning to a Facebook page — SOS Nice — to help locate writer Renee Lo Iacono. She was in Nice Thursday night, but her family has not heard from her.

　　The attacker – shot dead by police – 31 year old Tunisian Mohamed Lahouaiej Bouhel – was not on any French terror lists or known to police as a radical¹¹.

　　The French interior minister said today he apparently¹² "radicalized very quickly." Police here in France have arrested five people including Bouhel's estranged¹³ wife. They're still trying to find out if they attacker acted alone or had help with other individuals. Hari.

　　HARI: On this ISIS claim of responsibility Jane, how are investigators¹⁴ going to know whether the group planned this attack or trained Bouhel?

　　JANE FERGUSON: They certainly don't know yet Hari, they're trying to look into whether or not this was a coordinated¹⁵ attack with ISIS. But what is clear is through their message. Their statement that they made today that Bouhel had followed their call to attack the citizens of countries that were attacking ISIS.

　　That is very clearly not the same as saying that they coordinated the attack. Saying That they themselves planned it out. For instance like the Paris attack in in November, which was clearly coordinated and very much so planned inside Syria.

　　This attack it seemed may have simply been inspired by ISIS, which of course is a very different thing but just as deadly.

　　HARI SREENIVASAN: Jane Ferguson joining us from Nice, France tonight. Jane thank you very much.

1 heeding   

v.听某人的劝告，听从( heed的现在分词 )

参考例句：

• This come of heeding people who say one thing and mean another! 有些人嘴里一回事，心里又是一回事，今天这个下场都是听信了这种人的话的结果。 来自辞典例句
• Her dwarfish spouse still smoked his cigar and drank his rum without heeding her. 她那矮老公还在吸他的雪茄，喝他的蔗酒，睬也不睬她。 来自辞典例句

2 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。

3 toll   

n.过路(桥)费；损失，伤亡人数；v.敲(钟)

参考例句：

• The hailstone took a heavy toll of the crops in our village last night.昨晚那场冰雹损坏了我们村的庄稼。
• The war took a heavy toll of human life.这次战争夺去了许多人的生命。

4 pedestrians   

n.步行者( pedestrian的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• Several pedestrians had come to grief on the icy pavement. 几个行人在结冰的人行道上滑倒了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Pedestrians keep to the sidewalk [footpath]! 行人走便道。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》

5 promenade   

n./v.散步

参考例句：

• People came out in smarter clothes to promenade along the front.人们穿上更加时髦漂亮的衣服，沿着海滨散步。
• We took a promenade along the canal after Sunday dinner.星期天晚饭后我们沿着运河散步。

6 glamour   

n.魔力，魅力；vt.迷住

参考例句：

• Foreign travel has lost its glamour for her.到国外旅行对她已失去吸引力了。
• The moonlight cast a glamour over the scene.月光给景色增添了魅力。

7 drawn   

v.拖，拉，拔出；adj.憔悴的，紧张的

参考例句：

• All the characters in the story are drawn from life.故事中的所有人物都取材于生活。
• Her gaze was drawn irresistibly to the scene outside.她的目光禁不住被外面的风景所吸引。

8 crossfire   

n.被卷进争端

参考例句：

• They say they are caught in the crossfire between the education establishment and the government.他们称自己被卷进了教育机构与政府之间的争端。
• When two industrial giants clash,small companies can get caught in the crossfire.两大工业企业争斗之下，小公司遭受池鱼之殃。

9 decided   

adj.决定了的，坚决的；明显的，明确的

参考例句：

• This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
• There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。

10 desperately   

adv.极度渴望地，绝望地，孤注一掷地

参考例句：

• He was desperately seeking a way to see her again.他正拼命想办法再见她一面。
• He longed desperately to be back at home.他非常渴望回家。

11 radical   

n.激进份子，原子团，根号；adj.根本的，激进的，彻底的

参考例句：

• The patient got a radical cure in the hospital.病人在医院得到了根治。
• She is radical in her demands.她的要求十分偏激。

12 apparently   

adv.显然地；表面上，似乎

参考例句：

• An apparently blind alley leads suddenly into an open space.山穷水尽，豁然开朗。
• He was apparently much surprised at the news.他对那个消息显然感到十分惊异。

13 estranged   

adj.疏远的，分离的

参考例句：

• He became estranged from his family after the argument.那场争吵后他便与家人疏远了。
• The argument estranged him from his brother.争吵使他同他的兄弟之间的关系疏远了。

14 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》

15 coordinated   

adj.协调的

参考例句：

• The sound has to be coordinated with the picture. 声音必须和画面协调一致。
• The numerous existing statutes are complicated and poorly coordinated. 目前繁多的法令既十分复杂又缺乏快调。 来自英汉非文学 - 环境法 - 环境法