韩国歌手文泰一获刑三年半

近日，韩国流行歌手、前NCT男团成员文泰一（Moon Tae-il）强奸案一审宣判，获刑三年半。

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🤔️小作业：

1. What can be inferred about the legal outcome of the case?

A. The defendants received the maximum punishment for special quasi-rape.

B. The sentencing was significantly lighter than what the prosecution demanded.

C. The judge completely dismissed the victim’s testimony due to lack of evidence.

D. Public outrage was avoided due to the immediate custody of the defendants.

无注释原文：

K-Pop Singer Sentenced to 3½ Years in Rape of Chinese Tourist

From: The New York Times

A K-pop singer known as Taeil and two other men were each sentenced to three and a half years in jail on Thursday on a rape charge in a case involving a tourist who was visiting South Korea last year.

Taeil, 31, whose legal name is Moon Tae-il, had pleaded guilty last month along with the other two. According to the local media, the defendants met the woman, a Chinese national, at a bar in Seoul. They took her in a taxi to the home of one of the defendants, where they sexually assaulted her while she was heavily intoxicated.

Prosecutors had sought a seven-year jail term. They said it appeared that the suspects had deliberately moved the victim to another location so it would be hard for her to recall details of the attack.

Mr. Moon, a former member of NCT, a popular boy band, appeared in Seoul Central District Court on Thursday wearing a black T-shirt and slacks. His eyes were downcast as Judge Lee Hyun-kyung read aloud his sentence.

“The crime is severe,” she said. Their target “likely suffered great mental pain from being a victim in an unfamiliar place.”

There was no noticeable reaction from the defendants or others in the courtroom to the sentences, but some people on social media expressed anger, saying the sentences were not long enough.

The three men had pleaded guilty to what South Korean law calls “special quasi-rape,” which applies in certain cases such as when the victim is unconscious, and two or more perpetrators are involved. The maximum sentence for that crime is life in prison.

All three defendants were taken into custody immediately after the sentencing. They also will need to complete 40 hours of a program for sexual violence.

Mr. Moon isn't the first K-pop star to be jailed for sex crimes in recent years.

In 2019, Choi Jong-hoon and Jung Joon-young were given jail terms of five and six years for raping women who were too drunk to give consent, and for making and sharing videos of the assaults online. Seungri, a former member of BigBang, was sentenced to three years in prison in 2021 for sex crimes that included arranging for prostitution at a night club called Burning Sun.

Last August, Mr. Moon's management company released a statement saying he was “accused in a criminal case involving sex crimes” and that he had left the band.

“We apologize for the controversy that's been caused by our artist,” the label said. In October, the label announced it had terminated Mr. Moon's contract.

Mr. Moon made his debut in 2016 in a sub-unit of NCT, a popular boy band from SM Entertainment, one of the nation's largest K-pop labels. His discography includes dozens of group albums and soundtracks for Korean dramas, including Netflix's “Song of the Bandits” in 2023. His latest work was a solo track for the period piece “Missing Crown Prince,” which aired last year.

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注：完整题目见本文开头；中文文本为纽约时报官方译文，仅供参考

含注释全文：

K-Pop Singer Sentenced to 3½ Years in Rape of Chinese Tourist

From: The New York Times

A K-pop singer known as Taeil and two other men were each sentenced to three and a half years in jail on Thursday on a rape charge in a case involving a tourist who was visiting South Korea last year.

艺名泰一的韩国流行歌手和另外两名男子周四分别被判处三年半有期徒刑，他们被指控犯有强奸罪，该案涉及一名去年曾访问韩国的游客。

sentence /ˈsen.təns/ 可以作动词也可以作名词，表示“（法官）宣布判决，宣判”，英文解释为“to decide and say officially what a punishment will be”举个🌰：He was sentenced to life imprisonment. 他被判终身监禁。

作名词，还可以表示“句，句子”，英文解释为“a group of words, usually containing a verb, that expresses a thought in the form of a statement, question, instruction, or exclamation and starts with a capital letter when written”

Taeil, 31, whose legal name is Moon Tae-il, had pleaded guilty last month along with the other two. According to the local media, the defendants met the woman, a Chinese national, at a bar in Seoul. They took her in a taxi to the home of one of the defendants, where they sexually assaulted her while she was heavily intoxicated.

31岁的泰一本名文泰一，他已在上个月和其他两名男子一起对指控认罪。据当地媒体报道，三名被告在首尔一家酒吧遇到一名中国女子。他们将她带上一辆出租车，带到其中一名被告家里，在女子大醉的情况下性侵了她。

1）表示“恳求”，英文解释为“If you plead with someone to do something, you ask them in an intense, emotional way to do it.”举个🌰：The lady pleaded with her daughter to come back home.  那位女士恳求她的女儿回家。

2）表示“（尤指在法庭上）为…辩护；申辩；认（罪）”，英文解释为“to make a statement of what you believe to be true, especially in support of something or someone or when someone has been accused in a law court”举个🌰：The defendant pleaded not guilty/innocent to robbery with violence. 被告不承认暴力抢劫。

defendant /dɪˈfen.dənt/ 表示“被告，被告人”，英文解释为“a person in a law case who is accused of having done something illegal”

assault /əˈsɒlt/ 可以作动词也可以作名词，表示“袭击，攻击，猛攻”，英文解释为“a violent attack”；作名词时以表示“侵犯人身（罪），殴击他人身体（罪）”，如：sexual/indecent assault 性侵/猥亵。举个🌰：He was charged with sexual assault. 他被指控性侵犯。

intoxicated /ɪnˈtɒk.sɪ.keɪ.tɪd/ 1）表示“喝醉的；（毒品）麻醉的”，英文解释为“under the influence of alcohol or drugs”举个🌰：He appeared intoxicated, police said. 他看上去好像是喝醉了，警察说。

2）表示“陶醉的；极其兴奋的；忘乎所以的”，英文解释为“excited, happy, and slightly out of control because of love, success, etc.”举个🌰：She was understandably intoxicated by her success in the national competition. 她因在全国比赛中获胜而欣喜若狂是可以理解的。

Prosecutors had sought a seven-year jail term. They said it appeared that the suspects had deliberately moved the victim to another location so it would be hard for her to recall details of the attack.

检方曾要求对被告判处七年有期徒刑。检方称，嫌犯似乎故意将受害者转移到其他地方，让她在回忆侵犯细节上有困难。

prosecutor /ˈprɒs.ɪ.kjuː.tər/ 1）表示“公诉人；检察官”，英文解释为“a public official who charges sb officially with a crime and prosecutes them in court”，如：the public/state prosecutor 公诉人；州检察官。

2）表示“原告律师；控方律师”，英文解释为“a lawyer who leads the case against a defendant in court”

1）表示“故意地”，英文解释为“intentionally”举个🌰：I'm sure he says these things deliberately to annoy me. 我敢肯定他是故意说这些来气我的。

2）表示“不慌不忙地，从容地”，英文解释为“slowly and carefully”举个🌰：Calmly and deliberately, she cut up his suits one by one. 她平静从容地把他的西服一件一件剪成碎片。

Mr. Moon, a former member of NCT, a popular boy band, appeared in Seoul Central District Court on Thursday wearing a black T-shirt and slacks. His eyes were downcast as Judge Lee Hyun-kyung read aloud his sentence.

文泰一曾是受欢迎的男孩乐队NCT的成员，他周四在首尔中央地方法院出庭时，穿着黑色T恤和休闲裤。法官李贤庆宣读判决时，他低垂双眼。

slacks表示“（不属于套装一部分的）长裤”，英文解释为“a pair of trousers that are in the style of trousers worn as part of a suit, and that are considered fairly formal but not as formal as a suit”如：wool slacks 羊毛长裤。

slack /slæk/ 作形容词，1）表示“萧条的，不景气的；冷清的；懈怠的”，英文解释为“showing little activity; not busy or happening in a positive way”举个🌰：Business is always slack at this time of year. 每年的这个时候生意都很清淡。

2）表示“不紧的，松的”，英文解释为“not tight; loose”举个🌰：These tent ropes are too slack - they need tightening. 这些帐篷绳太松了——需要把它们紧一紧。

slack /slæk/ 作名词，1）表示“松弛，不紧”，英文解释为“the fact that something is too loose”举个🌰：There's too much slack in these ropes. 这些绳子有太多的地方很松弛。

2）表示“（组织中人员、资金或地方的）富余部分，闲置部分”，英文解释为“people, money or space that should be used more fully in an organization”举个🌰：There's very little slack in the budget.预算中没有多少剩余款项。

📍slacker /ˈslæk.ər/ 表示“偷懒的人；磨洋工的人”，英文解释为“a person who does not work hard enough”举个🌰：Those slackers have gone home early again. 那些懒家伙又提前回家了。

📍cut sb some slack 表示“给…方便；对…网开一面”，英文解释为“to not judge someone as severely as you usually would because they are having problems at the present time”

downcast /ˈdaʊn.kɑːst/ 表示“眼睛向下看的，目光低垂的”，英文解释为“If someone's eyes are downcast, they are looking down.”或者表示“垂头丧气的，萎靡不振的；伤心绝望的”，英文解释为“sad and without hope”举个🌰：I thought you were looking a little downcast this morning. 我觉得你今天早上好像有点垂头丧气。

“The crime is severe,” she said. Their target “likely suffered great mental pain from being a victim in an unfamiliar place.”

“犯罪性质恶劣，”法官说。他们选择的对象“在一个不熟悉的地方成为受害人，可能遭受了极大的精神创伤”。

There was no noticeable reaction from the defendants or others in the courtroom to the sentences, but some people on social media expressed anger, saying the sentences were not long enough.

虽然被告或法庭上的其他人没有对判决做出明显反应，但一些人在社交媒体上表达了愤怒，认为刑期不够长。

The three men had pleaded guilty to what South Korean law calls “special quasi-rape,” which applies in certain cases such as when the victim is unconscious, and two or more perpetrators are involved. The maximum sentence for that crime is life in prison.

这三名男子已承认犯有韩国法律上称为“特殊准强奸”的罪行，该罪适用于受害者神志不清、以及涉及两名或两名以上施暴者的情况，对此罪的最高惩罚是无期徒刑。

quasi- /kweɪ.zaɪ-/ 表示“类似，准”，英文解释为“used to show that something is almost, but not completely, the thing described”举个🌰：The school uniform is quasi-military in style. 这种校服在式样上类似军装。

unconscious /ʌnˈkɒn.ʃəs/ 1）表示“（尤指因头部受伤）昏迷的，不省人事的”，英文解释为“in the state of not being awake, especially as the result of a head injury”举个🌰：She was hit on the head by a stone and knocked unconscious. 一块石头击中了她的头部，她昏了过去。

2）表示“（想法或感情）无意识的，潜意识的”，英文解释为“An unconscious thought or feeling is one that you do not know you have”

perpetrator /ˈpɜːrpətreɪtər/ 表示“作恶者；犯罪者”，英文解释为“someone who does something morally wrong or illegal”

📺美剧《疑犯追踪》（Person of Interest）的片头经典台词就有一句：But victim or perpetrator, if your number is up, we'll find you.（但无论是受害人还是行凶者，只要你的号码被列出来，我们就会找到你。）

All three defendants were taken into custody immediately after the sentencing. They also will need to complete 40 hours of a program for sexual violence.

三名被告在宣判后被当庭羁押。他们还需要完成40小时性暴力治疗课程。

custody /ˈkʌs.tə.di/ 1）表示“照管，监护；（尤指对父母离异或去世的孩子的）监护权”，英文解释为“the legal right or duty to care for someone or something, especially a child after its parents have separated or died”举个🌰：The court awarded/granted/gave custody of the child to the father. 法庭将孩子的监护权判给了父亲。

2）表示“（尤指等候法庭审判期间的）拘押，拘留，羁押”，英文解释为“the state of being kept in prison, especially while waiting to go to court for trial”举个🌰：The suspect is now in custody. 嫌疑犯正被看押候审。

Mr. Moon isn't the first K-pop star to be jailed for sex crimes in recent years.

文泰一不是近年来因性犯罪入狱的唯一的韩国流行音乐明星。

jail /dʒeɪl/ 表示“监禁”，英文解释为“to put someone in a jail”举个🌰：He was jailed for three years. 他被监禁了3年。

In 2019, Choi Jong-hoon and Jung Joon-young were given jail terms of five and six years for raping women who were too drunk to give consent, and for making and sharing videos of the assaults online. Seungri, a former member of BigBang, was sentenced to three years in prison in 2021 for sex crimes that included arranging for prostitution at a night club called Burning Sun.

2019年，崔钟训和郑俊英分别被判处五年和六年有期徒刑，罪名是强奸因醉酒而没有能力表示同意的女性，以及制作并在网上分享了性侵视频。2021年，BigBang乐队前成员、艺名“胜利”的歌手因性犯罪被判处三年有期徒刑，他的罪行包括安排妓女在一家名为Burning Sun的夜总会提供性服务。

consent /kənˈsent/ 表示“同意；准许；允许”，英文解释为“permission to do sth, especially given by sb in authority”举个🌰：Children under 16 cannot give consent to medical treatment. 16岁以下的儿童不得自行同意接受治疗。

prostitution表示“卖淫”，英文解释为“the work of a prostitute”。prostitute表示“卖淫者；娼妓；妓女；男妓”，英文解释为“a person who has sex for money”。📍2021年“弹琴须音准，做人别跑调”文中，除了用prostitute表示，还用了相对另一个说法 sex worker 性工作者。

Last August, Mr. Moon's management company released a statement saying he was “accused in a criminal case involving sex crimes” and that he had left the band.

文泰一的经纪公司去年8月已发声明说，他“被指控涉嫌性犯罪”，已退出乐队。

“We apologize for the controversy that's been caused by our artist,” the label said. In October, the label announced it had terminated Mr. Moon's contract.

“我们对我们的艺人引发的争议深表歉意，”该公司写道。去年10月，该公司宣布终止了与文泰一的合同。

controversy /ˈkɒn.trə.vɜː.si/ 表示“争议；争论；争辩”，英文解释为“a lot of disagreement or argument about something, usually because it affects or is important to many people”举个🌰：There was a big controversy surrounding / over the use of drugs in athletics. 体育界对使用违禁药物争议很大。

label /ˈleɪ.bəl/ 作动词，表示“贴标签”，英文解释为“to fasten a label to”举个🌰：The parcel was clearly labelled "Fragile". 这个包裹上清楚地标着“易碎品”。If you spend any time in prison, you're labelled as a criminal for the rest of your life. 一旦入过狱，“罪犯”的帽子就会一辈子扣在你的头上。

作名词，表示“公司；品牌商品；公司名称；公司标志”，英文解释为“a company that produces goods for sale, the goods themselves, or the company's name or symbol”举个🌰：Her favourite designer label (= maker of expensive clothes) is Armani. 她最喜欢的服装品牌是阿玛尼。

📍此前，戳爷Troye Sivan被传已分手数月文中就提到，Representatives for Sivan's label EMI declined to comment on rumours of a split. 戳爷的唱片公司EMI代表拒绝对分手传闻发表评论。此处的label指的是“唱片公司”，英文解释为“a company that produces and sells records, CDs, etc.”。

terminate /ˈtɜː.mɪ.neɪt/ 1）表示“（使）停止，结束，终止”，英文解释为“to end; to make sth end”举个🌰：Your contract of employment terminates in December. 你的聘约十二月份到期。

2）也可以指“终止妊娠，人工流产”（to end a pregnancy intentionally, usually by a medical operation）举个🌰：After a lot of agonizing she decided to terminate the pregnancy. 在多次痛苦的考虑后，她决定终止妊娠。

Mr. Moon made his debut in 2016 in a sub-unit of NCT, a popular boy band from SM Entertainment, one of the nation's largest K-pop labels. His discography includes dozens of group albums and soundtracks for Korean dramas, including Netflix's “Song of the Bandits” in 2023. His latest work was a solo track for the period piece “Missing Crown Prince,” which aired last year.

文泰一于2016年出道，当时是以NCT小分队成员的身份，NCT是韩国最大的韩流音乐公司之一SM娱乐旗下的热门男孩乐队。他的音乐作品包括几十张团体专辑和韩剧原声带，其中包括Netflix2023年推出的《土匪之歌》。他的最新作品是去年播出的时代剧《失踪的世子》的一个独唱曲目。

debut /ˈdeɪ.bju/ 作动词，表示“首演，首次登台；首次亮相”，英文解释为“to perform or be introduced to the public for the first time”举个🌰：The Broadway show debuted last year to great acclaim. 这个百老汇节目去年首次演出就受到了广泛赞扬。

作名词，表示“（演员、运动员等的）首次登台，初次亮相；新事物的问世”，英文解释为“The debut of a performer or sports player is their first public performance, appearance, or recording.”举个🌰：She made her debut in a 1937 production of "Hamlet." 她在1937年《哈姆雷特》的演出中首次登台。

discography /dɪsˈkɒɡrəfɪ/ 表示“（某人演唱、创作或收藏的） 音乐作品集，音乐作品目录”，英文解释为“all of the music that has been performed, written or collected by a particular person; a list of this music”。

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