地道美語聽力播客922：法院判決罪犯

　　南希：嘿，你去哪兒了?

　　Geraldo: I’ve been in the other courtroom watching the sentencing of that murderer.

　　杰拉多：我去了另一個法庭，看了看法官宣判謀殺犯。

　　Nancy: Which murderer?

　　南希：哪個謀殺犯?

　　Geraldo: The one who failed to get the charges reduced through a plea agreement. During the trial, her attorneys tried to show that there were mitigating circumstances, but the judge didn’t buy it.

　　杰拉多：就是那個想通過辯訴協(xié)議減輕刑罰，最后沒弄成的那個謀殺犯。法庭上，她的律師試著說明有減刑情節(jié)。但是法官不買賬。

　　Nancy: Didn’t she commit two murders?

　　南希：她沒承認她實施了兩起謀殺案?

　　Geraldo: That’s right. The judge sentenced her to 35 years to life in prison for each crime.

　　杰拉多：沒承認，法官判她每起謀殺案坐35年監(jiān)禁。

　　Nancy: Will she serve them consecutively or concurrently?

　　南希：連續(xù)執(zhí)行還是合并執(zhí)行?

　　Geraldo: She’ll be serving them consecutively, so even with time off for good behavior, she’ll be spending the next 50 years or so in prison.

　　杰拉多：連續(xù)執(zhí)行。就算因為表現(xiàn)良好，接下來的50年里，她也會在牢獄中度過。

　　Nancy: So her only hope now is an appeal, right?

　　南希：那么她唯一希望就是上訴，是嗎?

　　Geraldo: That’s right. I’ll be following this case for a long time to come.

　　杰拉多：是，我會一直追蹤這個案子。

　　Nancy: And getting lots of good copy.

　　南希：會有很多復印的文件。

　　Geraldo: Of course. What would we crime reporters do without juicy murders?

　　杰拉多：當然，如果沒有這么多有陰謀詭計的謀殺犯，還要我們這些罪案報道人做什么?