2013年自考英語(二)課文譯文:女教師震撼人心的最后一課

　　女教師震撼人心的最后一課

　　A remarkable woman reasons with her killer -- and tapes it.

    一位非凡的女性向要殺她的兇手講道理――并錄了音。

    She used the miniature tape recorder for a graduate-school course she was taking. The device, though, would do much more than capture a lecture. It was a microcassette found in Kathleen Weinstein's shirt pocket that not only led police to her alleged killer but also revealed the New Jersey teacher to be a woman of extraordinary courage and compassion.

　　她使用了微型錄音機，那是她用來錄她正在聽的研究生院開的一門課。不過這個設備起的作用要比錄下一堂的課的內容大得多。它是在凱恩琳?溫斯坦的襯衣口袋中發(fā)現(xiàn)的一個微型盒式錄音帶，它不僅引導警方抓獲了殺害她的兇手，而且顯示出了這位新澤西州教師是位具有非凡勇氣和同情心的婦女。

　　Weinstein, 45, was on her way to an exam at Toms River High School South on March 14 when she got out of her gold 1995 Toyota Camry to buy a sandwich at the busy Toms River Shopping Center. That's where her path crossed that of Michael LaSane, who, police say, wanted just such a car to celebrate his 17th birthday. Grabbing Weinstein by the jaw, the attacker told her he had a gun and forced her into the Camry. The car was then driven to Manitou Park, about two miles from the shopping center. It was there, police believe, that Weinstein was able to activate the recorder she kept in her bag. According to Ocean County prosecutor Daniel Carluccio, the taped conversation between Weinstein and LaSane took place as they removed personal items -- bags, notebooks, her six-year-old son's belongings, from the car. "It wasn't hysterical,” Carluccio says of the 24-minute tape. "It wasn't the kind of thing you would expect of someone who is facing a life-threatening situation. Mrs. Weinstein bravely and persistently used every skill and power she had to convince her attacker to simply take her car and not her life.”

　　溫斯坦，45歲，在3月14日前往市南湯姆斯河中學的考試途中，她下了她金色的“1995豐日佳美”汽車，到繁忙的“湯姆斯河購物中心”去買一個三明治。麥克爾?拉森正好經過此地，警方說，拉森只是想要這樣的一輛車來慶祝自己17歲的生日。他抓住溫斯坦的下巴，對她說他有一支槍，并強迫她坐進了她的佳美車里。然后這輛車開到了距購物中心10英里遠的曼尼托公園。警察認為，就是在那兒溫斯坦打開了她手提包中的錄音機。據海洋縣檢查官丹尼爾?卡魯齊奧說，所錄的溫斯坦和拉森的談話是在他們兩人從車里往外拿溫斯坦的隨身物品時開始的，那些物品有袋子、筆記本和她六歲兒子的東西。談到24分鐘的錄音帶時，卡魯齊奧說，談話時她沒有大喊大叫，不像你們想像的一個人面對生命受到威脅時的反應。溫斯坦夫人一直勇敢地在用她所有的技巧和力量來說服她的襲擊者：只要她的車，別要她的命。

　　The excerpts of the talk released by the prosecutor show why Weinstein was a beloved figure at Thorne Micidle School in Middletown, where she was a special-education teacher. "You haven't done anything yet,” she tells her attacker. "All you have to do is let me go and take my car. For my life, don't you think I should be concerned and let you take my car? For my life! Do you really want to have that on your head?” At another point, the teacher tries to get him to open up. "Why don't you just tell me? Of course, it's important. It's determining your whole life and the direction you're taking." Weinstein also talks about her son Daniel and her plans to take in a foster child with her husband Paul. "I want to give something to somebody, to give something back,” she says.

　　檢查官公布的談話節(jié)錄揭示了作為米道鎮(zhèn)桑恩中學特殊教育的教師溫斯坦夫人受人愛戴的原因?！澳氵€沒做什么事，”她對襲擊者說：“你現(xiàn)在要做的事情就是放了我，開走我的車，為了活命，難道我還會關心讓不讓你開走我的車?我想活命!你真的想要背上殺我的罪名?”在另一個時刻，這位教師試圖讓他敞開思想說話。“為什么你不告訴我呢?當然，這是很主要的。這將決定你的一生和你要走的道路。”溫斯坦也談到了她的兒子丹尼爾以及她和丈夫要收養(yǎng)一個孩子的計劃?！拔蚁胧┗萦谌?，以期得到回報?！彼f。

　　Her powers of persuasion were to no avail. Weinstein's body, with hands and feet bound, was discovered by a hiker on March 17. She had been smothered with her coat. But before she died she somehow slipped the microcassette into her pocket without her killer knowing it. Because Weinstein had asked LaSane about himself and his family, police quickly had their suspect, the son of a local official. "Our impression was that she was very aware she was leaving something behind,”says Carluccio. He will not comment on LaSane's side of the conversation except to say, "When you hear the tape, it will raise profound questions about what is happening in our world with juveniles and our society. 1t goes beyond materialism."

　　她的說服沒有起作用。溫斯坦的尸體3月17日被一徒步旅行者發(fā)現(xiàn)，手腳都被捆著。她是被人用外套悶死的。但是在被殺之前，她把微型盒式磁帶悄悄放進她的口袋中，而兇手沒有覺察到。因為溫斯坦已經問過拉森本人及其家庭情況，警方很快找到了嫌疑犯――一位當地官員的兒子?！拔覀兊挠∠笫撬芮宄粝乱恍〇|西?！笨旪R奧說。他不愿評論拉森的談話，只是說，“當你聽這盒磁帶時，它會對我們這個世界的青少年和社會上所發(fā)生的事提出深刻的問題，這不僅是物質至上問題。

　　Weinstein also helped leave behind a new program at Thorne Middle School in which students were encouraged to do nice things for others. Every morning Weinstein would announce various good deeds over the p.a. system and she solicited prizes from local merchants and restaurants. Given her fate, the name of the program has a heartbreaking resonance to it: Random Acts of Kindness.

　　溫斯坦在桑恩中學曾參與組織了一項新活動，在這項活動中鼓勵學生們?yōu)閯e人做好事。每天早上溫斯坦都通過校內廣播系統(tǒng)宣布一些好人好事并且請求當地商人和酒店給予獎勵。在她付出了自己生命的情況下，這些活動的名稱聽起來令人心碎：隨時隨地做好事。

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