经济学人:朝鲜又一个受害者(1)

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So read the guidance for North Korea on the website of a Chinese travel company when Otto Warmbier, a 21-year-old American student, signed up for a five-day trip in December 2015.
当21岁的美国学生奥托·瓦姆比尔在2015年12月签署了为期五天的旅行时，他在一家中国旅游公司的网站在阅读了有关朝鲜的旅游指南。

Mr Warmbier was arrested the next month at the airport in Pyongyang, as he was leaving, and accused of attempting to steal a propaganda placard.
瓦姆比尔于下个月在平壤机场正要离开时，却因被控告试图偷盗宣传广告牌而被当场逮捕。

"I have been very impressed by the Korean government's humanitarian treatment of severe criminals like myself," he said during a televised confession.
他在电视讲话中说：“对于朝鲜政府对待像我这样的严厉罪犯采用的人道主义治疗方法，我印象非常深刻。”

But on June 13th they released him, in a vegetative state, "on compassionate grounds", after talks between the North's ambassador to the UN and America's point-man on the country.
但在6月13日，朝鲜当局与朝鲜驻联合国大使和美国的领头人物之间进行了会谈后，极其同情地释放了植物人状态的他。

Doctors said he was suffering from a catastrophic brain injury, probably sustained shortly after his trial.
医生说他遭受了灾难性的脑损伤，很可能是在他的审判后不久。

The doctors could find no evidence either of the North Korean explanation—botulism, a food-borne disease—or of the obvious alternative, a severe beating.
医生们无任何证据表明朝鲜的解释是合理的，无论是食物中毒，食物传染病还是明显的传统方法——虐待殴打。

On past precedent, it seems likely that the harm done to Mr Warmbier was unintended.
在以往的先例上，对瓦姆比尔的伤害似乎是无意的。

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1.sign up 签约；报名

例句:He saw the song's potential, and persuaded the company to sign her up.
他看到了这首歌的潜力，就说服公司和她签约。

2.severe beating 严重殴打

例句:She gave her son a severe beating.
她给儿子一顿痛打。

3.suffering from 遭受

例句:I realized he was suffering from shock.
我意识到他休克了。

4.hard labour 苦役

例句:The sentence of the court was twelve years' hard labour, to be served in a British prison.
法庭判其在一所英国监狱里服12年苦役。

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potential	[pə'tenʃəl]	想一想再看 adj. 可能的，潜在的 n. 潜力，潜能
unclear		想一想再看 adj. 不清楚的；不易了解的
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