VOA标准英语2009年-Demjanjuk Trial Begins in Germany
时间：2019-01-13 作者：英语课 分类：VOA标准英语2009年(十二月)
Suspected former Nazi 1 death camp guard in what is likely to be one of the last major Nazi-era war crimes trials
Lisa Bryant | Paris 30 November 2009
Presumed former concentration camp guard John Demjanjuk arrives at the court room for his trial in Munich, southern Germany, 30 Nov 2009
What will likely be Germany's last Nazi-era war crimes trial is underway in Munich. On the dock is 89-year-old John Demjanjuk, a retired 2 U.S. auto 3 worker who is accused of participating in the killing 4 of thousands of Jews at a concentration camp in Poland.
John Demjanjuk arrived at the Munich courthouse in an ambulance. He did not speak as the trial opened, and he kept his eyes mostly closed.
But his lawyer, Ulrich Busch, accused the judge and prosecutors 5 of bias 6. He said Germans who worked at the Sobibor death camp in then Nazi-occupied Poland, where Demjanjuk is accused of working as a guard, were acquitted 7 in previous trials.
Demjanjuk has been tried before for alleged 8 Nazi-era crimes. An Israeli court sentenced him to death in the 1980s on charges of being a brutal 9 camp guard nicknamed Ivan the Terrible. The supreme 10 court later overturned the ruling on grounds of mistaken identity.
Now Demjanjuk is again in court on charges he was an ordinary camp guard. If proved, that would make him the lowest-ranking person to go on trial for Nazi war crimes.
Nonetheless, the prosecution 11 accuses him of complicity in the killings 12 of nearly 28,000 Jews at the Sobibor camp. One of the court witnesses, camp survivor 13 Thomas Blatt, spoke 14 to reporters as he arrived at the courthouse.
Blatt said he would tell the court how things were at the camp. He said he did not know Demjanjuk personally. He hoped Demjanjuk would be sentenced if he was found guilty, but he is not looking for revenge.
Demjanjuk says he is again a victim of mistaken identity. He says he served as a Soviet 15 army soldier and was himself held prisoner. Demjanjuk emigrated to the United States in 1952 and became a U.S. citizen six years later. He has since been stripped of his citizenship 16. His trial is expected to last until May.
- They declare the Nazi regime overthrown and sue for peace.他们宣布纳粹政权已被推翻，并出面求和。
- Nazi closes those war criminals inside their concentration camp.纳粹把那些战犯关在他们的集中营里。
- The old man retired to the country for rest.这位老人下乡休息去了。
- Many retired people take up gardening as a hobby.许多退休的人都以从事园艺为嗜好。
- Don't park your auto here.别把你的汽车停在这儿。
- The auto industry has brought many people to Detroit.汽车工业把许多人吸引到了底特律。
- Investors are set to make a killing from the sell-off.投资者准备清仓以便大赚一笔。
- Last week my brother made a killing on Wall Street.上个周我兄弟在华尔街赚了一大笔。
- In some places,public prosecutors are elected rather than appointed. 在有些地方，检察官是经选举而非任命产生的。 来自口语例句
- You've been summoned to the Prosecutors' Office, 2 days later. 你在两天以后被宣到了检察官的办公室。
- They are accusing the teacher of political bias in his marking.他们在指控那名教师打分数有政治偏见。
- He had a bias toward the plan.他对这项计划有偏见。
- The jury acquitted him of murder. 陪审团裁决他谋杀罪不成立。
- Five months ago she was acquitted on a shoplifting charge. 五个月前她被宣判未犯入店行窃罪。
- It was alleged that he had taken bribes while in office. 他被指称在任时收受贿赂。
- alleged irregularities in the election campaign 被指称竞选运动中的不正当行为
- She has to face the brutal reality.她不得不去面对冷酷的现实。
- They're brutal people behind their civilised veneer.他们表面上温文有礼，骨子里却是野蛮残忍。
- It was the supreme moment in his life.那是他一生中最重要的时刻。
- He handed up the indictment to the supreme court.他把起诉书送交最高法院。
- The Smiths brought a prosecution against the organizers.史密斯家对组织者们提出起诉。
- He attempts to rebut the assertion made by the prosecution witness.他试图反驳原告方证人所作的断言。
- His statement was seen as an allusion to the recent drug-related killings. 他的声明被视为暗指最近与毒品有关的多起凶杀案。
- The government issued a statement condemning the killings. 政府发表声明谴责这些凶杀事件。
- The sole survivor of the crash was an infant.这次撞车的惟一幸存者是一个婴儿。
- There was only one survivor of the plane crash.这次飞机失事中只有一名幸存者。
- 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。
- 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。
- He was born in Sweden,but he doesn't have Swedish citizenship.他在瑞典出生，但没有瑞典公民身分。
- Ten years later,she chose to take Australian citizenship.十年后，她选择了澳大利亚国籍。