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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-19362299
＊新聞標題
UK can end Julian Assange row - Ecuador's Rafael Correa
厄瓜多爾總統Ecuador's Rafael Correa對英國喊話，說英國是可能平息這場風波的
＊標題解說
‧ Julian Assange：維基解密的創始人，中文譯名：亞桑傑或阿桑奇
‧ row：爭端（名詞）由 Assange事件所引發的爭端
‧ Edcuador：厄瓜多爾,國家名
‧ Rafael Correa：厄瓜多爾總統名，中文譯名：拉斐爾‧科雷亞（註一）
＊內文解析
■ Assange事件的外交風波，「明天」就可以結束，如果英國可以讓他安全通關到厄瓜多爾，該國總統已經告訴BBC（英國廣播公司）。
The diplomatic row over Julian Assange "could be ended tomorrow" if Britain gave him safe passage to Ecuador, the country's president has told the BBC.
‧ 簡化來看：X could be ended tomorrow if Britain gave him Y.
X= The diplomatic row over Julian Assange 外交風波（diplomatic row）
Y= safe passage 安全通關出入境
the permission to travel across a particular area of land
We were promised (a) safe passage through the occupied territory.
http://oald8.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/dictionary/bird-of-passage
■ Assange 先生，澳大利亞公民，41歲，自從6月以來一直待在厄瓜多爾駐倫敦大使館內，力圖避免被送到瑞典面對性侵的指控，而這些指控都被他否認。
Australian citizen Mr Assange, 41, has been at Ecuador's London embassy since June in a bid to avoid being sent to Sweden to face sex assault claims, which he denies.
‧ X has been at Ecuador’s London embassy since June in a bid to avoid Y
X=Mr Assange
Y= being sent to Sweden to face sex assault claims,
which 子句指這是他否認（deny）的指控
‧ sex assault claims：性侵的指控（複數型：claims）可見不只一起指控
‧ in a bid to do something：力圖得到某物（片語）
(used especially in newspapers) an effort to do something or to obtain something
‧ a bid to do something：a desperate bid to escape from his attackers
http://oald8.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/dictionary/bid_2
■ 英國表示它可以合法進入使館之後，南美洲幾個國家已承諾支持厄瓜多爾。
South American nations have pledged support for Ecuador after the UK said it could legally enter the building.
‧ pledge：承諾（動詞）
‧ pledge support for X：承諾支持 X
‧ legally：合法地（副詞）
‧ enter the building：指進入Ecuador's London embassy 厄瓜多爾駐倫敦大使館
■ 英國一直堅持它有「法律責任」，把Assange先生送到瑞典受審，檢察官要進行問話偵察。
The UK has insisted it has a "legal obligation" to see Mr Assange sent to Sweden, where prosecutors want to question him.
‧ The UK has insisted it has a legal obligation to do something.
see somebody + 形容詞：看到某人如何
see somebody sent to Sweden（過去分詞當形容詞）被送到 Sweden
可以想成： see that Mr Assange is sent to Sweden
‧ see that：確保達成某任務（片語）
(not usually used in the progressive tenses) see that… to make sure that you do something or that something is done
See that all the doors are locked before you leave.
Could you see that the kids are in bed by 8 o'clock?
http://oald8.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/dictionary/see
‧ prosecutor：檢察官（名詞）prosecutors（複數型）
a public official who charges somebody officially with a
crime and prosecutes them in courtthe public/state prosecutor2
http://oald8.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/dictionary/prosecutor
■ 英國也明白表示，如果離開使館他將被逮捕 。
The UK has also made it clear he will be arrested if he leaves the embassy.
‧ Make it clear that：（that 可省略）easy to understand and not causing
any confusion
I hope I made it clear to him that he was no longer welcome here.
http://oald8.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/dictionary/clear
■ 2010年，前維基解密兩名女性志工指控Assange 先生在斯德哥爾摩發表演講時對她們犯下性侵罪行。
In 2010, two female ex-Wikileaks volunteers accused Mr Assange of committing sexual offences against them while he was in Stockholm to give a lecture.
‧ 簡化來看：In 2010, X accused Mr Assange of Y while he was in Stockholm.
X=two female ex-Wikileaks volunteers 前維基解密機構的兩名女性志工
Y= committing sexual offences against them 對她們犯下性侵罪行
‧ give a lecture：演講（動詞片語）
a talk that is given to a group of people to teach them about a particular subject, often as part of a university or college course
to deliver/give a lecture to first-year students
http://oald8.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/dictionary/lecture
■ 他聲稱，性行為是雙方同意的，那些指控是有政治動機的。
He claims the sex was consensual and the allegations are politically motivated.
‧ 簡化來看：He claimed X and Y. 他聲稱兩件事
X= the sex was consensual
Y= the allegations are politically motivated.
‧ consensual：雙方同意下進行（形容詞）
which the people taking part have agreed to
consensual sex（雙方同意發生的性關係）
http://oald8.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/dictionary/consensual
‧ allegation：指控（名詞）allegations（複數型）
‧ politically motivated：有政治動機的（形容詞）
■ 他說，他擔心因為他網站公佈的機密文件,，如果他被引渡到瑞典會進一步被引渡到美國。
He says he fears onward extradition to the US if extradited to Sweden because of his website's publication of confidential documents.
‧ He says he fears X if (he were) extradited to Sweden because of Y
X=onward extradition to the US
Y= his website's publication of confidential documents.
指的是他的維基解密網站公布－confidential documents－機密文件
‧ extradite to 國家：把嫌犯引渡到作案國家（動詞）
to officially send back somebody who has been accused or found guilty of a
crime to the country where the crime was committed
The British government attempted to extradite the suspects from Belgium.
http://oald8.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/dictionary/extradite
‧ extradition：引渡（名詞）
‧ onward：持續進一步的（形容詞）
onward extradition to the US：進一步引渡到美國
continuing or moving forward
Ticket prices include your flight and onward rail journey.
http://oald8.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/dictionary/onward
BBC另一則新聞：Assange 先生力勸美國要終止對維基解密的政治迫害（witch-hunt）
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-19310335
Julian Assange urges US to end Wikileaks 'witch-hunt'
‧ witch-hunt：原意是對巫師的搜捕，
現在都指（以莫須有罪名進行的）政治迫害（名詞）
an attempt to find and punish people who hold opinions that are thought
to be unacceptable or dangerous to society
http://oald8.oxfordlearnersdictionaries.com/dictionary/witch-hunt
註一：英國衛報網站，厄瓜多爾總統發表談話，為何在倫敦使館給予Assange 先生政治庇護to grant asylum to Assange at its London embassy.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/aug/22/ecuador-president-assange-sweden-sex
＊字彙整理
外交風波，機密文件,引渡，政治迫害與庇護，性侵指控，這則新聞觸及的都是我們已經耳熟能詳的話題，看看英文怎麼說：
‧ 外交風波：political row（名詞）
‧ 政治迫害：witch-hunt（名詞）
‧ 政治庇護：asylum（名詞）grant asylum to Assange
‧ 機密文件：confidential documents（名詞，複數型）
‧ 使館：embassy（名詞）
‧ 引渡：extradition（名詞）extradite（動詞）
‧ 指控：allegation（名詞）allegations（複數型）
‧ 性侵指控：sexual assault allegations（複數型）
‧ 雙方同意下進行：consensual （形容詞）
‧ 雙方同意的性關係：consensual sex（名詞）
‧ 有政治動機的：politically motivated（形容詞）
‧ 承諾：pledge（動詞）pledge support for X：承諾支持 X
‧ 檢察官：prosecutor（名詞）prosecutors（複數型）
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