大学英语精读听力第三册 unit1
[00:00.00]A young man finds that strolling along the streets
[00:16.14]without an obvious purpose can lead to trouble with the law
[00:20.61]One misunderstanding leads to another
[00:23.69]until eventually he must appear in court for trial …
[00:27.98]A BRUSH WITH THE LAW
[00:31.16]I have only once been in trouble with the law
[00:35.16]The whole process of being arrested and taken to court
[00:39.21]was a rather unpleasant experience at the time
[00:42.55]but it makes a good story now
[00:44.62]What makes it rather disturbing
[00:44.69]was the arbitrary circumstances both of my arrest
[00:48.22]and my subsequent fate in court.
[00:51.17]It happened in February about twelve years ago
[00:55.29]I had left school a couple of months before that
[00:58.95]and was not due to go to university until the following October.
[01:03.78]I was still living at home at the time
[01:06.55]One morning I was in Richmond
[01:09.19]a suburb of London near where I live.
[01:12.46]I was looking for a temporary job
[01:15.02]so that I could save up some money to go travelling
[01:18.05]As it was a fine day and I was in no hurry
[01:21.31]I was taking my time, looking in shop windows
[01:25.07]strolling in the park
[01:26.64]and sometimes just stopping and looking around me
[01:29.99]It must have been this obvious aimlessness that led to my downfall
[01:35.21]It was about half past eleven when it happened.
[01:38.74]I was just walking out of the local library
[01:41.69]having unsuccessfully sought employment there
[01:44.74]when I saw a man walking across the road
[01:47.77]with the obvious intention of talking to me
[01:50.91]I thought he was going to ask me the time
[01:53.37]Instead, he said he was a police officer and he was arresting me
[01:58.51]At first I thought it was some kind of joke.
[02:02.01]But then another policeman appeared, this time in uniform
[02:05.93]and I was left in no doubt
[02:08.10]\'But what for?\' I asked
[02:08.20]\'Wandering with intent to commit an arrestable offence,\' he said.
[02:07.20]\'What offence?\' I asked
[02:09.21]\'Theft,\' he said
[02:11.15]\'Theft of what?\' I asked
[02:13.50]\'Milk bottles,\' he said, and with a perfectly straight face too!
[02:18.17]\'Oh,\' I said
[02:20.66]It turned out there had been a lot of petty thefts in the area
[02:24.94]particularly that of stealing milk bottles from doorsteps
[02:28.70]Then I made my big mistake.
[02:31.34]At the time I was nineteen.
[02:33.72]Had long untidy hair
[02:35.75]and regarded myself as part of the sixties \'youth counterculture\'
[02:40.27]As a result I wanted to appear cool and unconcerned with the incident
[02:45.71]so I said
[02:46.88]How long have you been following me?
[02:49.36]In the most casual and conversational tone I could manage
[02:53.49]I thus appeared to them
[02:56.05]to be quite familiar with this sort of situation
[02:58.93]and it confirmed them in their belief
[03:01.28]that I was a thoroughly disreputable character
[03:04.33]A few minutes later a police car arrived.
[03:07.68]\'Get in the back,\' they said.
[03:09.22]\'Put your hands on the back of the front seat and don\'t move them.\'
[03:13.08]They got in on either side of me.
[03:15.85]It wasn\'t funny any more
[03:14.85]At the police station they questioned me for several hours.
[03:19.21]I continued to try to look worldly and au fait with the situation
[03:24.18]When they asked me what I had been doing
[03:26.92]I told them I\'d been looking for a job. \'Aha,\'
[03:30.19]I could see them thinking, \'unemployed\'
[03:32.85]Eventually, I was officially charged
[03:31.85]and told to report to Richmond Magistrates Court the following Monday
[03:36.11]Then they let me go.
[03:37.75]I wanted to conduct my own defence in court,
[03:41.91]but as soon as my father found out what had happened,
[03:44.57]he hired a very good solicitor.
[03:47.05]We went along that Monday armed with all kinds of witnesses,
[03:51.49]including my English teacher from school as a character witness
[03:55.33]But he was never called on to give evidence.
[03:58.55]My \'trial\' didn\'t get that far
[04:06.95]The magistrate dismissed the case after fifteen minutes
[04:10.81]I was free.
[04:12.20]The poor police had never stood a chance
[04:14.94]The solicitor even succeeded in getting costs awarded against the police
[04:20.61]And so I do not have a criminal record
[04:23.35]But what was most shocking at the time
[04:25.68]was the things my release from the charge so clearly depended on
[04:29.73]I had the \'right\' accent, respectable middle-class parents in court
[04:34.74]reliable witnesses,
[04:36.70]and I could obviously afford a very good solicitor.
[04:40.28]Given the obscure nature of the charge
[04:43.15]I feel sure that if I had come from a different background
[04:46.60]and had really been unemployed,
[04:48.74]there is every chance that I would have been found guilty.
[04:52.19]While asking for costs to be awarded,
[04:55.67]my solicitor\' case quite obviously revolved around the fact
[04:59.32]that I had a \'brilliant academic record\'
[05:02.56]Meanwhile, just outside the courtroom,
[05:05.70]one of the policemen who had arrested me.
[05:08.05]was gloomily complaining to my mother
[05:10.48]that another youngster had been turned against the police
[05:14.34]\'You could have been a bit more helpful when we arrested you,\'
[05:17.37]he said to me reproachfully.
[05:19.33]What did he mean?
[05:21.37]Presumably that I should have looked outraged and said something like
[05:26.05]\'Look here, do you know who you\'re talking to?
[05:26.12]I am a highly successful student with a brilliant academic record.
[05:30.14]How dare you arrest me!
[05:31.97]hen they, presumably, would have apologized,
[05:36.18]perhaps even taken off their caps,
[05:38.55]and let me on my way.
[05:41.50]New Words
[05:51.33]单词
[06:01.15]Brush
[06:01.75]小冲突
[06:02.35]Process
[06:03.47]过程
[06:04.60]Court
[06:05.14]法院
[06:05.68]Arbitrary
[06:06.70]武断的
[06:07.71]Circumstance
[06:09.03]环境
[06:10.35]Subsequent
[06:11.37]接下去的
[06:12.39]Fate
[06:13.41]命运
[06:14.43]Due
[06:15.34]约定的
[06:16.26]Temporary
[06:17.28]暂时的
[06:18.29]Stroll
[06:18.35]散步
[06:18.40]Obvious
[06:19.48]明显的
[06:20.57]Downfall
[06:21.53]垮台
[06:22.50]employment
[06:23.41]职业
[06:24.33]Wander
[06:25.35]闲逛
[06:26.37]Commit
[06:27.35]干（坏事）
[06:28.33]Arrestable
[06:29.19]逮逋的
[06:30.05]Offence
[06:31.13]罪行
[06:32.22]Straight face
[06:32.27]板着的脸
[06:32.33]Petty
[06:33.20]不足道的
[06:34.08]Doorstep
[06:34.27]门阶
[06:34.46]Regard
[06:34.50]把……看作
[06:34.53]Counterculture
[06:35.65]把主流文化
[06:36.78]Unconcerned
[06:37.84]无忧虑的
[06:38.89]Casual
[06:40.11]漫不经心的
[06:41.32]Conversational
[06:42.36]会话（用）的
[06:43.39]Confirm
[06:44.41]证实
[06:45.42]Belief
[06:46.55]相信
[06:47.67]Thoroughly
[06:48.81]完全地
[06:49.94]Thorough
[06:50.98]十分的
[06:52.01]Disreputable
[06:53.13]声名狼藉的
[06:54.25]Worldly
[06:55.48]老于世故的
[06:56.71]Au fait
[06:57.77]熟悉的
[06:58.83]Aha
[06:59.54]啊哈！
[07:00.26]Magistrate
[07:01.42]地方法官
[07:02.59]Conduct
[07:03.62]处理
[07:04.65]Defence
[07:05.84]辩护
[07:07.03]solicitor
[07:08.14]律师
[07:09.25]Witness
[07:10.27]证据
[07:11.29]Trial
[07:12.36]审判
[07:13.43]dismiss
[07:14.38]驳回
[07:15.33]cost
[07:16.48]诉讼费
[07:17.63]Award
[07:18.44]判给
[07:19.25]Accent
[07:20.38]口音
[07:21.50]Respectable
[07:22.52]值得尊敬的
[07:23.54]Reliable
[07:24.50]可靠的
[07:25.47]Given
[07:26.16]考虑到
[07:26.85]Obscure
[07:27.63]模糊
[07:28.40]Guilty
[07:27.90]有罪的
[07:27.40]Revolve
[07:26.90]旋转
[07:26.40]Brilliant
[07:27.48]辉煌的
[07:28.56]Courtroom
[07:31.28]审判室
[07:33.99]meanwhile
[07:35.11]同时
[07:36.23]Gloomily
[07:37.36]忧郁地
[07:38.48]Complain
[07:39.66]抱怨
[07:40.83]Complaint
[07:41.77]诉苦
[07:42.71]Reproachfully
[07:43.56]责备地
[07:44.41]Presumably
[07:45.60]推测起来
[07:46.79]Outrage
[07:48.02]引起……气愤
[07:49.24]Successful
[07:50.41]成功的确
[07:51.57]Apologize
[07:52.47]道歉
[07:53.37]Apology
[07:54.30]道歉
[07:55.22]phrases and expressions
[07:58.57]Take sb. To court
[07:59.86]对某人提出诉讼
[08:01.15]A couple of
[08:02.17]几（个）
[08:03.19]Save up
[08:04.26]储蓄
[08:05.33]Take one\'s time
[08:06.73]慢慢来
[08:08.13]At first
[08:09.41]起先
[08:10.69]Turn out
[08:11.76]结果
[08:12.83]Call on
[08:14.01]要求
[08:15.18]Stand a chance
[08:16.57]有机会
[08:17.95]Revolve around
[08:19.28]以……为中心
[08:20.61]Turn against
[08:21.74]对立
[08:22.86]Proper Names
[08:25.50]Richmond
[08:26.32]里土满（英国地名）
[08:27.14]Richmond Magistrates\' Court
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[00:16.14]without an obvious purpose can lead to trouble with the law
[00:20.61]One misunderstanding leads to another
[00:23.69]until eventually he must appear in court for trial …
[00:27.98]A BRUSH WITH THE LAW
[00:31.16]I have only once been in trouble with the law
[00:35.16]The whole process of being arrested and taken to court
[00:39.21]was a rather unpleasant experience at the time
[00:42.55]but it makes a good story now
[00:44.62]What makes it rather disturbing
[00:44.69]was the arbitrary circumstances both of my arrest
[00:48.22]and my subsequent fate in court.
[00:51.17]It happened in February about twelve years ago
[00:55.29]I had left school a couple of months before that
[00:58.95]and was not due to go to university until the following October.
[01:03.78]I was still living at home at the time
[01:06.55]One morning I was in Richmond
[01:09.19]a suburb of London near where I live.
[01:12.46]I was looking for a temporary job
[01:15.02]so that I could save up some money to go travelling
[01:18.05]As it was a fine day and I was in no hurry
[01:21.31]I was taking my time, looking in shop windows
[01:25.07]strolling in the park
[01:26.64]and sometimes just stopping and looking around me
[01:29.99]It must have been this obvious aimlessness that led to my downfall
[01:35.21]It was about half past eleven when it happened.
[01:38.74]I was just walking out of the local library
[01:41.69]having unsuccessfully sought employment there
[01:44.74]when I saw a man walking across the road
[01:47.77]with the obvious intention of talking to me
[01:50.91]I thought he was going to ask me the time
[01:53.37]Instead, he said he was a police officer and he was arresting me
[01:58.51]At first I thought it was some kind of joke.
[02:02.01]But then another policeman appeared, this time in uniform
[02:05.93]and I was left in no doubt
[02:08.10]\'But what for?\' I asked
[02:08.20]\'Wandering with intent to commit an arrestable offence,\' he said.
[02:07.20]\'What offence?\' I asked
[02:09.21]\'Theft,\' he said
[02:11.15]\'Theft of what?\' I asked
[02:13.50]\'Milk bottles,\' he said, and with a perfectly straight face too!
[02:18.17]\'Oh,\' I said
[02:20.66]It turned out there had been a lot of petty thefts in the area
[02:24.94]particularly that of stealing milk bottles from doorsteps
[02:28.70]Then I made my big mistake.
[02:31.34]At the time I was nineteen.
[02:33.72]Had long untidy hair
[02:35.75]and regarded myself as part of the sixties \'youth counterculture\'
[02:40.27]As a result I wanted to appear cool and unconcerned with the incident
[02:45.71]so I said
[02:46.88]How long have you been following me?
[02:49.36]In the most casual and conversational tone I could manage
[02:53.49]I thus appeared to them
[02:56.05]to be quite familiar with this sort of situation
[02:58.93]and it confirmed them in their belief
[03:01.28]that I was a thoroughly disreputable character
[03:04.33]A few minutes later a police car arrived.
[03:07.68]\'Get in the back,\' they said.
[03:09.22]\'Put your hands on the back of the front seat and don\'t move them.\'
[03:13.08]They got in on either side of me.
[03:15.85]It wasn\'t funny any more
[03:14.85]At the police station they questioned me for several hours.
[03:19.21]I continued to try to look worldly and au fait with the situation
[03:24.18]When they asked me what I had been doing
[03:26.92]I told them I\'d been looking for a job. \'Aha,\'
[03:30.19]I could see them thinking, \'unemployed\'
[03:32.85]Eventually, I was officially charged
[03:31.85]and told to report to Richmond Magistrates Court the following Monday
[03:36.11]Then they let me go.
[03:37.75]I wanted to conduct my own defence in court,
[03:41.91]but as soon as my father found out what had happened,
[03:44.57]he hired a very good solicitor.
[03:47.05]We went along that Monday armed with all kinds of witnesses,
[03:51.49]including my English teacher from school as a character witness
[03:55.33]But he was never called on to give evidence.
[03:58.55]My \'trial\' didn\'t get that far
[04:06.95]The magistrate dismissed the case after fifteen minutes
[04:10.81]I was free.
[04:12.20]The poor police had never stood a chance
[04:14.94]The solicitor even succeeded in getting costs awarded against the police
[04:20.61]And so I do not have a criminal record
[04:23.35]But what was most shocking at the time
[04:25.68]was the things my release from the charge so clearly depended on
[04:29.73]I had the \'right\' accent, respectable middle-class parents in court
[04:34.74]reliable witnesses,
[04:36.70]and I could obviously afford a very good solicitor.
[04:40.28]Given the obscure nature of the charge
[04:43.15]I feel sure that if I had come from a different background
[04:46.60]and had really been unemployed,
[04:48.74]there is every chance that I would have been found guilty.
[04:52.19]While asking for costs to be awarded,
[04:55.67]my solicitor\' case quite obviously revolved around the fact
[04:59.32]that I had a \'brilliant academic record\'
[05:02.56]Meanwhile, just outside the courtroom,
[05:05.70]one of the policemen who had arrested me.
[05:08.05]was gloomily complaining to my mother
[05:10.48]that another youngster had been turned against the police
[05:14.34]\'You could have been a bit more helpful when we arrested you,\'
[05:17.37]he said to me reproachfully.
[05:19.33]What did he mean?
[05:21.37]Presumably that I should have looked outraged and said something like
[05:26.05]\'Look here, do you know who you\'re talking to?
[05:26.12]I am a highly successful student with a brilliant academic record.
[05:30.14]How dare you arrest me!
[05:31.97]hen they, presumably, would have apologized,
[05:36.18]perhaps even taken off their caps,
[05:38.55]and let me on my way.
[05:41.50]New Words
[05:51.33]单词
[06:01.15]Brush
[06:01.75]小冲突
[06:02.35]Process
[06:03.47]过程
[06:04.60]Court
[06:05.14]法院
[06:05.68]Arbitrary
[06:06.70]武断的
[06:07.71]Circumstance
[06:09.03]环境
[06:10.35]Subsequent
[06:11.37]接下去的
[06:12.39]Fate
[06:13.41]命运
[06:14.43]Due
[06:15.34]约定的
[06:16.26]Temporary
[06:17.28]暂时的
[06:18.29]Stroll
[06:18.35]散步
[06:18.40]Obvious
[06:19.48]明显的
[06:20.57]Downfall
[06:21.53]垮台
[06:22.50]employment
[06:23.41]职业
[06:24.33]Wander
[06:25.35]闲逛
[06:26.37]Commit
[06:27.35]干（坏事）
[06:28.33]Arrestable
[06:29.19]逮逋的
[06:30.05]Offence
[06:31.13]罪行
[06:32.22]Straight face
[06:32.27]板着的脸
[06:32.33]Petty
[06:33.20]不足道的
[06:34.08]Doorstep
[06:34.27]门阶
[06:34.46]Regard
[06:34.50]把……看作
[06:34.53]Counterculture
[06:35.65]把主流文化
[06:36.78]Unconcerned
[06:37.84]无忧虑的
[06:38.89]Casual
[06:40.11]漫不经心的
[06:41.32]Conversational
[06:42.36]会话（用）的
[06:43.39]Confirm
[06:44.41]证实
[06:45.42]Belief
[06:46.55]相信
[06:47.67]Thoroughly
[06:48.81]完全地
[06:49.94]Thorough
[06:50.98]十分的
[06:52.01]Disreputable
[06:53.13]声名狼藉的
[06:54.25]Worldly
[06:55.48]老于世故的
[06:56.71]Au fait
[06:57.77]熟悉的
[06:58.83]Aha
[06:59.54]啊哈！
[07:00.26]Magistrate
[07:01.42]地方法官
[07:02.59]Conduct
[07:03.62]处理
[07:04.65]Defence
[07:05.84]辩护
[07:07.03]solicitor
[07:08.14]律师
[07:09.25]Witness
[07:10.27]证据
[07:11.29]Trial
[07:12.36]审判
[07:13.43]dismiss
[07:14.38]驳回
[07:15.33]cost
[07:16.48]诉讼费
[07:17.63]Award
[07:18.44]判给
[07:19.25]Accent
[07:20.38]口音
[07:21.50]Respectable
[07:22.52]值得尊敬的
[07:23.54]Reliable
[07:24.50]可靠的
[07:25.47]Given
[07:26.16]考虑到
[07:26.85]Obscure
[07:27.63]模糊
[07:28.40]Guilty
[07:27.90]有罪的
[07:27.40]Revolve
[07:26.90]旋转
[07:26.40]Brilliant
[07:27.48]辉煌的
[07:28.56]Courtroom
[07:31.28]审判室
[07:33.99]meanwhile
[07:35.11]同时
[07:36.23]Gloomily
[07:37.36]忧郁地
[07:38.48]Complain
[07:39.66]抱怨
[07:40.83]Complaint
[07:41.77]诉苦
[07:42.71]Reproachfully
[07:43.56]责备地
[07:44.41]Presumably
[07:45.60]推测起来
[07:46.79]Outrage
[07:48.02]引起……气愤
[07:49.24]Successful
[07:50.41]成功的确
[07:51.57]Apologize
[07:52.47]道歉
[07:53.37]Apology
[07:54.30]道歉
[07:55.22]phrases and expressions
[07:58.57]Take sb. To court
[07:59.86]对某人提出诉讼
[08:01.15]A couple of
[08:02.17]几（个）
[08:03.19]Save up
[08:04.26]储蓄
[08:05.33]Take one\'s time
[08:06.73]慢慢来
[08:08.13]At first
[08:09.41]起先
[08:10.69]Turn out
[08:11.76]结果
[08:12.83]Call on
[08:14.01]要求
[08:15.18]Stand a chance
[08:16.57]有机会
[08:17.95]Revolve around
[08:19.28]以……为中心
[08:20.61]Turn against
[08:21.74]对立
[08:22.86]Proper Names
[08:25.50]Richmond
[08:26.32]里土满（英国地名）
[08:27.14]Richmond Magistrates\' Court
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