defendants' pen: 被告席
[ 2006-04-07 09:11 ]
4月5日,在伊拉克首都巴格達,伊拉克前總統薩達姆再次就杜賈爾村案出庭接受盤問。身穿黑色外套的薩達姆在被告席上顯得輕松且桀驁不馴,不時地和法官或檢察官調侃幾句,有時還能說出幾句頗有詩意的話。這次出庭,薩達姆承認他批準了將杜賈爾村什葉派村民處死的命令,因為他相信有證據表明那些村民卷入了試圖暗殺他的陰謀。
請看外電相關報道:Saddam Hussein dodged questions from prosecutors cross-examining him for the first time Wednesday over a crackdown against Shiites in the 1980s. Standing alone in a black suit in thedefendants' pen, Saddam cooperated with the court at times, grinning at the chief prosecutor and reciting poetry to the judge.
報道中的defendants' pen就是“被告席”,這里著重講一下“pen”。pen除表示我們日常所見的“鋼筆”外,還有一層意思指a fenced enclosure for animals(圈養牲畜的圍欄),如:a pen of sheep(一欄羊),由此,pen可引申為“監禁”或“監獄”。在報道中,pen表示“把被告席位隔開的圍欄”。
另外,pen也可做動詞用,指“把…關在欄中;禁錮”,其過去分詞有兩種形式“penned”或“pent”,舉兩個例子:The sheep have to be penned every night.(羊群每晚都得關進圈里。)
The desire to travel has been pent up for the last two years.(近兩年來心中老是憋著想出門旅行的愿望。)
(中國日報網站編譯)
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