学生作文虚构枪杀恐龙 学校竟报警

 　　When a South Carolina student was given an assignment¹ by his teacher to create a Facebook-type status report telling something interesting about himself, he allegedly wrote “I killed my neighbor’s pet dinosaur². I bought the gun to take care of the business.”

　　美国南卡罗来纳州的一名学生在完成老师布置的“按更新脸书的风格写一件发生在自己身上的趣事”的作业时，写道“我买枪杀死了邻居的宠物恐龙”。

　　School officials were alarmed by 16-year-old Alex Stone’s words and called police. Now Stone and his mother Karen Gray are speaking out to media³ as they feel the school overreacted.

　　学校被这个名叫亚历克斯·斯通的16岁学生的作文吓到并报了警。目前，斯通和他的妈妈凯伦·格雷找到媒体澄清，并表示是学校反应过度了。

　　“I could understand if they made him rewrite it because he did have ‘gun’ in it,” Gray told the NY Daily News. “I mean first of all we don’t have dinosaurs⁴ anymore. Second of all, he’s not even old enough to buy a gun.”

　　“如果老师让他重写一篇我能够理解，毕竟他的作业里有‘枪’这个词。”格雷告诉《纽约每日新闻》的记者，“可事实是，首先恐龙已经不存在了，其次他这么小怎么可能去买枪。”

　　The cops⁵ took Stone in for questioning and searched his locker⁶ and backpack for guns. None were found.

　　警察询问了斯通并搜查了他的储物柜和背包，但没发现任何枪支。

　　Police told My Fox Chicago that Stone was difficult during questioning and they arrested him and charged him with disturbing the school. Stone was also suspended⁷ from Summerville High School for a week.

　　警方告诉My Fox Chicago的记者，斯通在询问中不太配合，他们现已拘留了他并指控他扰乱学校秩序。同时，斯通被其所在的学校萨默维尔高中停课一周。

　　While Gray says she understands the gravity⁸ of the issue⁹, the mother wishes the school handled things differently.

　　斯通的妈妈表示虽然她知道这件事情的严重性，但她还是觉得学校应该换一种方式处理此事。

　　“If the school would have called me and told me about the paper and asked me to come down and discussed everything and, at least, get his point-of-view on the way he meant it. I never heard from the school, never. They never called me,” said Gray.

　　“我觉得学校应该先打电话给我告诉我这件事情，让我去学校一起商量一下，至少，也让我先问问孩子为什么会写这样的东西。可是我一直都没接到学校的任何通知。他们从未联系过我。”格雷说。

　　While Stone wishes he’d turned in a different assignment, he’s frustrated¹⁰ with the school and would prefer to be home-schooled moving forward.

　　而斯通也表示他希望自己当时交的作业不是这篇，现在他已经有点不喜欢学校了，宁愿选择在家里完成学业。

　　“I regret it because they put it on my record, but I don’t see the harm in it,” Stone told My Fox Chicago.”I think there might have been a better way of putting it, but I think me writing like that, it shouldn’t matter unless I put it out towards a person.”

　　“我很后悔，因为这给我留下了不良记录，但是我没想到会这么严重。”斯通说，“我觉得（这个作业）可能会有更好的表达方式，但我想着这样写，如果不让别人看到的话应该没什么事。”

　　Gray says her son is allowed to return on Monday.

　　格雷说他儿子周一才能回来。

1 assignment   

n.任务，作业；分配，指定

参考例句：

• His assignment was to follow the spy.分配给他的工作是跟踪这个间谍。
• He has got a new assignment.他得到一项新任命。

2 dinosaur   

n.恐龙

参考例句：

• Are you trying to tell me that David was attacked by a dinosaur?你是想要告诉我大卫被一支恐龙所攻击？
• He stared at the faithful miniature of the dinosaur.他凝视著精确的恐龙缩小模型。

3 media   

n.(medium的复数)媒体，新闻媒介，传播媒介

参考例句：

• The local media reported rioting across the country.当地媒体报道了全国范围的骚乱。
• His latest movie is being hyped up by the media.他新近的电影正被媒体大肆炒作。

4 dinosaurs   

n.恐龙( dinosaur的名词复数 )；守旧落伍的人，过时落后的东西

参考例句：

• The brontosaurus was one of the largest of all dinosaurs. 雷龙是所有恐龙中最大的一种。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Dinosaurs have been extinct for millions of years. 恐龙绝种已有几百万年了。 来自《简明英汉词典》

5 cops   

n.堆，顶；警察( cop的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• As usual, the cops get the baddies in the end. 跟平常一样，警察最后把坏人都抓起来了。
• Somebody call the cops! 去个人报警啊！

6 locker   

n.更衣箱，储物柜，冷藏室，上锁的人

参考例句：

• At the swimming pool I put my clothes in a locker.在游泳池我把衣服锁在小柜里。
• He moved into the locker room and began to slip out of his scrub suit.他走进更衣室把手术服脱下来。

7 suspended   

a.被暂时搁置的

参考例句：

• A lamp was suspended from the ceiling. 一盏吊灯悬在天花板上。
• The British government has now suspended humanitarian aid to the area. 英国政府现已暂停对这一地区的人道主义援助。

8 gravity   

n.重力，引力，地心引力

参考例句：

• An apple falls down because of gravity.由于重力的关系，苹果往下掉。
• The stone rolled down the mountain by gravity.这块石头由于重力作用而滚下山。

9 issue   

n.出版，发行，（报刊等）期、号，论点，问题，结果， （水，血等的）流出；vt.使流出，放出，发行（钞票等），发布（命令），出版（书等）发给；vi.发行，流出，造成...结果，进行辩护，传下

参考例句：

• I bought the book the day after its issue.这书出版后的第一天，我就去买了它。
• I'll support her down the line on that issue.在那个问题上我将全力支持她。

10 frustrated   

adj.挫败的，失意的，泄气的v.使不成功( frustrate的过去式和过去分词 )；挫败；使受挫折；令人沮丧

参考例句：

• It's very easy to get frustrated in this job. 这个工作很容易令人懊恼。
• The bad weather frustrated all our hopes of going out. 恶劣的天气破坏了我们出行的愿望。 来自《简明英汉词典》