万花筒 Kaleidoscope2007-09-22&09-24, FBI 反恐演练

This is where it ends. FBI SWAT Teams converge¹ on an elementary school 28 hours after the crisis begins. Students flee. It's a scenario² the FBI doesn't usually let cameras in to see.

This is the single most ambitious field training exercise any FBI field officer has ever undertaken.

(……what appears to be, um, yeah, a body.)

The training exercise starts here with a plastic dummy³ wearing military fatigues⁴ shot through the head. Short distance away, acting⁵ on a tip, FBI divers⁶ make their own discovery. This scenario may be pretend, but what happens here has been taken from real cases. The pressure on for investigators⁷ to solve the crime before anyone else dies.

(I found a body in the vehicle)

Near the car, pulled from the lake, divers also found a backpack and inside this tool which represents a weapon and printouts from an international skinhead group out of Canada. They also found a receipt for a storage company. And it's this receipt that links the murder here to the murder back at the ravine. Coz investigators there found a business card for the very same storage company in the pocket of the dead man.

What does that suggest? That suggests we are dealing⁸ with some dangerous people.

Dangerous people in this exercise who turn out to be domestic terrorists. They go to retrieve⁹ a bomb (that) hidden in a storage unit. We are not allowed to show you the FBI surveillance techniques.

The agents now have a beat on a possible suspect. It is critical to get the snipers and the assault teams into position.

The snipers dressed in gillie suits vanish around the house in the woods. Hostages inside. The mock terrorists demand to speak with an FBI boss. Tensions run high.

(I want the big boss out here!)

The negotiation¹⁰ has been going on for more than six hours. One woman and two children have been released in exchange for food, cigarettes and insulin. But negotiations¹¹ are about to break down.

One of the hostages in this drill is killed. But agents uncover the ultimate plot. The mock terror group plants bombs in a school. Time is running out.

As soon as something happens at a school, it changes everything. Because you are not gonna sit and do a risk assessment¹², you're gonna go in and you're gonna stop harm being done to children.

It's now or never. This time, it's a game, one that ends well.

The ultimate objective is for us to prevent the next terrorist attack in the United States, and for all of us to go home safely at the end of the day.

From mistakes, lesson's learned, and in future these agents hope lives're saved.
Deborah Feyerick CNN West Point, New York.

1 converge   

vi.会合；聚集，集中；(思想、观点等)趋近

参考例句：

• The results converge towards this truth.其结果趋近于这个真理。
• Parallel lines converge at infinity.平行线永不相交。

2 scenario   

n.剧本，脚本；概要

参考例句：

• But the birth scenario is not completely accurate.然而分娩脚本并非完全准确的。
• This is a totally different scenario.这是完全不同的剧本。

3 dummy   

n.假的东西；(哄婴儿的)橡皮奶头

参考例句：

• The police suspect that the device is not a real bomb but a dummy.警方怀疑那个装置不是真炸弹，只是一个假货。
• The boys played soldier with dummy swords made of wood.男孩们用木头做的假木剑玩打仗游戏。

4 fatigues   

n.疲劳( fatigue的名词复数 )；杂役；厌倦；（士兵穿的）工作服

参考例句：

• The patient fatigues easily. 病人容易疲劳。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》
• Instead of training the men were put on fatigues/fatigue duty. 那些士兵没有接受训练，而是派去做杂务。 来自辞典例句

5 acting   

n.演戏，行为，假装；adj.代理的，临时的，演出用的

参考例句：

• Ignore her,she's just acting.别理她，她只是假装的。
• During the seventies,her acting career was in eclipse.在七十年代，她的表演生涯黯然失色。

6 divers   

adj.不同的；种种的

参考例句：

• He chose divers of them,who were asked to accompany him.他选择他们当中的几个人，要他们和他作伴。
• Two divers work together while a standby diver remains on the surface.两名潜水员协同工作，同时有一名候补潜水员留在水面上。

7 investigators   

n.调查者，审查者( investigator的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• This memo could be the smoking gun that investigators have been looking for. 这份备忘录可能是调查人员一直在寻找的证据。
• The team consisted of six investigators and two secretaries. 这个团队由六个调查人员和两个秘书组成。 来自《简明英汉词典》

8 dealing   

n.经商方法，待人态度

参考例句：

• This store has an excellent reputation for fair dealing.该商店因买卖公道而享有极高的声誉。
• His fair dealing earned our confidence.他的诚实的行为获得我们的信任。

9 retrieve   

vt.重新得到，收回；挽回，补救；检索

参考例句：

• He was determined to retrieve his honor.他决心恢复名誉。
• The men were trying to retrieve weapons left when the army abandoned the island.士兵们正试图找回军队从该岛撤退时留下的武器。

10 negotiation   

n.谈判，协商

参考例句：

• They closed the deal in sugar after a week of negotiation.经过一星期的谈判，他们的食糖生意成交了。
• The negotiation dragged on until July.谈判一直拖到7月份。

11 negotiations   

协商( negotiation的名词复数 )； 谈判； 完成（难事）； 通过

参考例句：

• negotiations for a durable peace 为持久和平而进行的谈判
• Negotiations have failed to establish any middle ground. 谈判未能达成任何妥协。

12 assessment   

n.评价；评估；对财产的估价，被估定的金额

参考例句：

• This is a very perceptive assessment of the situation.这是一个对该情况的极富洞察力的评价。
• What is your assessment of the situation?你对时局的看法如何？