Couple deny California abduction

　　A man and his wife have denied abducting¹ California woman Jaycee Lee Dugard when she was a child and holding her in their home for 18 years.
　　Phillip and Nancy Garrido denied 29 charges including kidnap, rape² and false imprisonment³ （监禁）when they appeared briefly⁴ in court in El Dorado County.
　　Ms Dugard was bundled into a car in the county in 1991 on her way to school.
　　Police are also searching the Garrido home in Antioch for clues to several prostitute murders in the 1990s.
　　Several bodies in the unsolved murders were dumped near an industrial park where Mr Garrido worked.
　　'Like a marriage'
　　Ms Dugard and two children she bore in captivity⁵ in Antioch, 200 miles (320km) away from where she was abducted⁶, were freed this week.
　　No pictures have been released of Ms Dugard as she looks todayThey are staying at a motel near San Francisco after being reunited with Ms Dugard's mother, Terri Probyn.
　　Ms Probyn told her ex-husband, Carl Probyn, that Ms Dugard appeared young but healthy.
　　She added that her daughter felt "really guilty for bonding with this guy", Mr Probyn told CBS news.
　　Mr Probyn, who saw his step-daughter being snatched from a bus stop in 1991, said: "Jaycee has strong feelings with this guy. She really feels it's almost like a marriage."Police apologyPhillip Garrido, 58, a convicted rapist and kidnapper⁷, is suspected of fathering Ms Dugard's children while he kept her in his backyard.
　　He and his wife Nancy, 54, are accused of abducting her in the town of South Lake Tahoe, in the Sierra Nevada Mountains.
　　CHARGES AGAINST THE GARRIDOSKidnapping a child under 14Kidnapping for sexual purposesFalse imprisonment by violenceSix counts each of forcible rapeSeven counts each of "forcible lewd⁸ act on a child"She was forced into a car as Mr Probyn tried in vain to give chase on a bicycle.
　　Police have admitted that they missed an opportunity to uncover what was happening at Mr Garrido's home in November 2006, when a neighbour alerted them to suspicious（可疑） behaviour there.
　　"The caller said Garrido was psychotic and had a sexual addiction," Sheriff Warren Rupf told reporters.
　　But the investigating police officer only spoke⁹ to Mr Garrido and did not enter his property to carry out a search.
　　"I'm first in line to offer organisational criticism and to offer my apologies to the victims and accept responsibility for having missed an earlier opportunity," said Sheriff Rupf.
　　'A disgusting thing'
　　Fred Kollar, undersheriff in El Dorado County, described finding a makeshift compound in the backyard consisting of sheds, tents and outbuildings.
　　The true identity of the backyard's inhabitants only emerged after Mr Garrido was called in along with his "family" for a parole office hearing on Wednesday.
　　Sheriff Warren E Rupf: "We missed an opportunity to bring earlier closure"Suspicions had been aroused when Mr Garrido, who has a printing business, was seen acting¹⁰ suspiciously towards the children as he tried to enter the University of California, Berkeley, campus to hand out religious literature.
　　Diane Doty, a neighbour, has said she often heard children playing in the backyard.
　　"I asked my husband, 'Why is he [Garrido] living in tents?'" she said on Thursday.
　　"And he said, 'Maybe that is how they like to live.'"The alleged¹¹ abductor has himself told a US TV channel that his story was "heart-warming".
　　"It's a disgusting thing that took place with me at the beginning, but I turned my life completely around," Mr Garrido told KCRA television from El Dorado County jail.
　　Court records show that Mr Garrido was convicted of kidnapping and raping¹² a 25-year-old woman in South Lake Tahoe in 1976.
　　A judge El Dorado County Superior Court in Placerville on Friday ordered them held without bail¹³ and a further court hearing has been scheduled for 14 September.
　　Mr Garrido appeared calm and unresponsive during the brief court appearance. Mrs Garrido, seated a short distance away from her husband, sobbed¹⁴ and put her head in her hands several times.
　　Both were dressed in red prison uniforms with their hands shackled¹⁵ to their waists.(本文由在线英语听力室)

1 abducting   

劫持，诱拐( abduct的现在分词 )； 使（肢体等）外展

参考例句：

• She was charged with abducting a six-month-old child. 她被控诱拐一个6个月大的孩子。
• At the same time, the rate of abducting foreigners is going down. 同时，发生在外国人身上的绑架案正在下降。

2 rape   

n.抢夺，掠夺，强奸；vt.掠夺，抢夺，强奸

参考例句：

• The rape of the countryside had a profound ravage on them.对乡村的掠夺给他们造成严重创伤。
• He was brought to court and charged with rape.他被带到法庭并被指控犯有强奸罪。

3 imprisonment   

n.关押，监禁，坐牢

参考例句：

• His sentence was commuted from death to life imprisonment.他的判决由死刑减为无期徒刑。
• He was sentenced to one year's imprisonment for committing bigamy.他因为犯重婚罪被判入狱一年。

4 briefly   

adv.简单地，简短地

参考例句：

• I want to touch briefly on another aspect of the problem.我想简单地谈一下这个问题的另一方面。
• He was kidnapped and briefly detained by a terrorist group.他被一个恐怖组织绑架并短暂拘禁。

5 captivity   

n.囚禁；被俘；束缚

参考例句：

• A zoo is a place where live animals are kept in captivity for the public to see.动物园是圈养动物以供公众观看的场所。
• He was held in captivity for three years.他被囚禁叁年。

6 abducted   

劫持，诱拐( abduct的过去式和过去分词 )； 使（肢体等）外展

参考例句：

• Detectives have not ruled out the possibility that she was abducted. 侦探尚未排除她被绑架的可能性。
• The kid was abducted at the gate of kindergarten. 那小孩在幼儿园大门口被绑架走了。

7 kidnapper   

n.绑架者，拐骗者

参考例句：

• The kidnapper was shot dead then and there by the armed policeman.绑架者被武装警察当时当地击毙。
• The kidnapper strangled the child with a piece of string.绑票的人用一根绳子把这孩子勒死了。

8 lewd   

adj.淫荡的

参考例句：

• Drew spends all day eyeing up the women and making lewd comments.德鲁整天就盯着女人看，说些下流话。
• I'm not that mean,despicable,cowardly,lewd creature that horrible little man sees. 我可不是那个令人恶心的小人所见到的下流、可耻、懦弱、淫秽的家伙。

9 spoke   

n.（车轮的）辐条；轮辐；破坏某人的计划；阻挠某人的行动 v.讲，谈（speak的过去式）；说；演说；从某种观点来说

参考例句：

• They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
• The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。

10 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。

11 alleged   

a.被指控的，嫌疑的

参考例句：

• It was alleged that he had taken bribes while in office. 他被指称在任时收受贿赂。
• alleged irregularities in the election campaign 被指称竞选运动中的不正当行为

12 raping   

v.以暴力夺取，强夺( rape的现在分词 )；强奸

参考例句：

• In response, Charles VI sent a punitive expedition to Brittany, raping and killing the populace. 作为报复，查理六世派军讨伐布列塔尼，奸淫杀戮平民。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The conquerors marched on, burning, killing, raping and plundering as they went. 征服者所到之处烧杀奸掠，无所不做。 来自互联网

13 bail   

v.舀（水），保释；n.保证金，保释，保释人

参考例句：

• One of the prisoner's friends offered to bail him out.犯人的一个朋友答应保释他出来。
• She has been granted conditional bail.她被准予有条件保释。

14 sobbed   

哭泣，啜泣( sob的过去式和过去分词 )； 哭诉，呜咽地说

参考例句：

• She sobbed out the story of her son's death. 她哭诉着她儿子的死。
• She sobbed out the sad story of her son's death. 她哽咽着诉说她儿子死去的悲惨经过。

15 shackled   

给（某人）带上手铐或脚镣( shackle的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• The hostage had been shackled to a radiator. 当时人质被铐在暖气片上。
• He was shackled and in darkness of torment. 他被困在黑暗中备受煎熬。