VOA慢速英语: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 detention. He died April 19 of a spinalcord injury he suffered on April 12 when he was detained. Freddie Gray’s death led to rioting in the city earlier this week.

马里兰州巴尔的摩警方完成了对一名黑人少年在拘留所死亡事件的调查。他在4月12号被捕，于4月19号因脊髓损伤死亡。Freddie Gray的死亡引发了该城市本周早些时候的骚乱。

Police gave their report to prosecutors. 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.

警方向检察官出示了报告，他们将就是否对六名参与Freddie Gray逮捕案件的警员提出控告做出决定。调查期间六名警员已经被带薪停职。

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

在Freddie Gray的葬礼完毕后持续了三天的骚乱于周四时候平静下来。

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 activist.

巴基斯坦法院判处2012年射杀一名15岁教育活动家的10名犯罪嫌疑人终身监禁。

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.

Malala Yousufzai在巴基斯坦斯瓦特山谷的一辆校车上遇袭。周四时候被判刑的两名男子袭击发生时在场。其他人参与了策划。这十名男子将至少在监狱呆上25年。

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.

巴基斯坦塔利班组织声称对此次袭击事件负责。其威胁称如果Malala Yousufzai回到巴勒斯坦的话会再次对其发起袭击。现在这名17岁的诺贝尔和平奖获得者居住在英国。

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 militant group Boko Haram.

尼日利亚警方称其解救了另外被博科圣地组织绑架的150名人质。

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

一名军官告诉VOA称军队在尼日利亚东北部 Sambisa 森林解救了大约100名儿童和50名女性。

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.

这片大树林隐藏着大量博科圣地阵营。其相信这里也是该组织在过去几年里关押被绑架的数千名尼日利亚人质的地方。

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

军方表示其在周二的时候还解救了200名女孩和93名女性。记者称目前没有亲眼见到被解救人质，军方也没有发布关于人质的照片。

Liberal U.S. senator enters 2016 presidential race

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

佛蒙特州参议院宣布参与2016年总统竞选。

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

Sanders今年73岁，是美国国会历史上以独自党派身份任期时间最长的一位议员。他自称是民主社会主义者。

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.

Sander在周四美国国会大厦宣布他将参加民主党初选。他说他的竞选议题将把中心放到收入不公平的问题上。

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, killing almost 5,500 people.

周四的时候一个15岁的男孩从加德满都一家酒店废墟中被安全救出。五天前尼泊尔发生强地震，造成大约5500人死亡。

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.

尼泊尔武装警察部队解救了男孩。他现在在医院接受治疗。主治医生说他很快就会恢复健康。

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

附近的数百名搜救人员在见到这名少年还活着都欢呼了起来。

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Words in the News

prosecutor - 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