疑似爱泼斯坦遗书被公开

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🤔️小作业：

1. According to the article, what can be inferred about the note's authentication?

A. The note was officially authenticated by the court before its release.

B. The Times independently verified the note's handwriting through forensic analysis.

C. The authentication process was based solely on the cellmate's claim.

D. The note's authenticity remains uncertain despite some claims of verification.

无注释原文：

Purported Epstein Suicide Note Is Released

From: The New York Times

A federal judge has released a suicide note purportedly written by Jeffrey Epstein that was sealed for years as part of the criminal case of his cellmate.

“They investigated me for months — FOUND NOTHING!!!” the note begins, adding that the result was charges going back many years.

“It is a treat to be able to choose one's time to say goodbye,” the note continued.

“Watcha want me to do — Bust out cryin!!” the note reads.

“NO FUN," it concludes, with those words underlined. “NOT WORTH IT!!”

Mr. Epstein's cellmate, Nicholas Tartaglione, said he discovered the note in July 2019 after Mr. Epstein was found unresponsive with a strip of cloth wrapped around his neck. Mr. Epstein survived that incident, but he was found dead weeks later at age 66 in the now shuttered Metropolitan Correctional Center in Lower Manhattan.

The note was made public on Wednesday by Judge Kenneth M. Karas of Federal District Court in White Plains, N.Y., who oversaw the cellmate's case. The judge acted after The New York Times petitioned the court last Thursday to unseal the document and published an article in which Mr. Tartaglione described the note and how it came into his possession.

The Times has not authenticated whether Mr. Epstein wrote the note, which was placed on the court docket Wednesday evening.

The document remained hidden from public view even as the Justice Department released millions of pages of documents related to Mr. Epstein in a move of unprecedented transparency. The Times searched those records and did not find a copy of the note. (A spokeswoman from the Justice Department said the agency had never seen it.)

The search did turn up a cryptic two-page chronology that described how the note became caught up in Mr. Tartaglione's complicated legal case. The chronology said that Mr. Tartaglione's lawyers authenticated the note, though it did not explain how.

Mr. Tartaglione, a former police officer in Briarcliff Manor, N.Y., shared a cell with Mr. Epstein while awaiting trial in a quadruple murder case. He told The Times in recent phone interviews from a California prison that he found the note in a graphic novel after Mr. Epstein was taken out of their cell after the apparent suicide attempt.

“I opened the book to read and there it was,” Mr. Tartaglione said. It was written on a piece of yellow paper ripped from a legal pad, he said.

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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：

Purported Epstein Suicide Note Is Released

From: The New York Times

A federal judge has released a suicide note purportedly written by Jeffrey Epstein that was sealed for years as part of the criminal case of his cellmate.

一名联邦法官公布了一封据称由杰弗里·爱泼斯坦写下的遗书。这份遗书作为其同狱者刑事案件的相关材料被封存数年。

表示“据称；声称地，谣传地”，英文解释为“If you say that something has purportedly been done, you mean that you think that it has been done but you cannot be sure.”如：documents that were purportedly smuggled out of China 据称已被偷运到中国境外的文件。

seal /siːl/ 作动词，1）表示“封，密封”，英文解释为“to close an entrance or container so that nothing can enter or leave it”

2）表示“确定；明确定下来；使成定局”，英文解释为“to make sth definite, so that it cannot be changed or argued about”举个🌰：They sealed their agreement with a handshake. 他们握手表示达成协议。

cellmate /ˈsel.meɪt/ 表示“（监狱的）同牢难友，同室囚犯”，英文解释为“the person who a prisoner shares a prison cell with”

“They investigated me for months — FOUND NOTHING!!!” the note begins, adding that the result was charges going back many years.

遗书开篇写道：“他们调查了我好几个月——什么都没查出来！！！”并补充说，结果是他被指控了多年前的罪行。

“It is a treat to be able to choose one's time to say goodbye,” the note continued.

“能自己选择告别的时间，也算是一种幸事，”遗书继续写道。

“Watcha want me to do — Bust out cryin!!” the note reads.

“你们还想让我怎么样——嚎啕大哭吗！！”遗书中这样写道。

“NO FUN," it concludes, with those words underlined. “NOT WORTH IT!!”

“没意思，”遗书结尾写道，并在这几个字下方划了下划线。“不值得！！”

Mr. Epstein's cellmate, Nicholas Tartaglione, said he discovered the note in July 2019 after Mr. Epstein was found unresponsive with a strip of cloth wrapped around his neck. Mr. Epstein survived that incident, but he was found dead weeks later at age 66 in the now shuttered Metropolitan Correctional Center in Lower Manhattan.

爱泼斯坦的同狱者尼古拉斯·塔尔塔廖内称，2019年7月，在爱泼斯坦被发现脖子上缠着布条、失去意识后，他发现了这封遗书。爱泼斯坦在那次事件中活了下来，但数周后，66岁的他在曼哈顿下城的大都会惩教中心被发现死亡，该监狱现已关闭。

unresponsive /ˌʌn.rɪˈspɒn.sɪv/ 表示“（因失去知觉或患重病而）没有反应的，完全不动的”，英文解释为“not reacting or moving at all because of being unconscious or very ill ”举个🌰：The patient was collapsed and unresponsive when he was brought into hospital. 病人被送到医院时处于昏迷状态，没有反应。

2019年现代版「甄嬛传」？泰国王妃被剥夺全部头衔时，各大媒体几乎都用了strip这个词，后接of，strip of 1）表示“剥夺（财产、权利）；撤销（头衔）”，英文解释为“To strip someone of their property, rights, or titles means to take those things away from them.”举个🌰：The soldiers have stripped the civilians of their passports, and every other type of document. 那些士兵们已经夺走了市民的护照以及所有其他证件。

2）strip还有“脱衣服；脱光…的衣服”的意思，英文解释为“to remove your clothing, or to remove all the clothing of someone else”举个🌰：He had been stripped naked, beaten and robbed. 他被脱光衣服，遭受殴打，东西还被抢了。

3）作名词，strip /strɪp/ 表示“条，带，细长片；带状地带（或森林、水面等）”，英文解释为“a long, flat, narrow piece”如：a narrow strip of land 狭长地带。

1）shutter作名词，通常复数，原意表示“活动护窗；百叶窗”，英文解释为“one of a pair of wooden or metal covers that can be closed over the outside of a window to keep out light or protect the windows from damage”，如：to open/close the shutters 打开/关上护窗。

2）作动词，可以指关上百叶窗，也有“（暂时或永久地）停业”的含义（to close down a business or activity）。

📍《经济学人》（The Economist）一篇讲述疫情影响的文章中提到：As covid-19 shutters businesses and leaves supermarket shelves bare, ...随着新冠肺炎导致众多企业关闭，超市货架空空如也，

The note was made public on Wednesday by Judge Kenneth M. Karas of Federal District Court in White Plains, N.Y., who oversaw the cellmate's case. The judge acted after The New York Times petitioned the court last Thursday to unseal the document and published an article in which Mr. Tartaglione described the note and how it came into his possession.

周三，纽约州怀特普莱恩斯联邦地区法院法官肯尼思·卡拉斯将这封遗书公之于众，他负责审理这位同狱者的案件。《纽约时报》曾于上周四向法院申请解封这份文件，并刊发了一篇报道，文中塔尔塔廖内描述了这封遗书以及自己获得它的经过，法官随后作出了公布该遗书的决定。

oversee /ˌəʊ.vəˈsiː/ 表示“监督；监察；监管”，英文解释为“to watch or organize a job or an activity to make certain that it is being done correctly”举个🌰：As marketing manager, her job is to oversee all the company's advertising. 作为营销经理，她的工作是负责公司所有的广告业务。

petition /pəˈtɪʃ.ən/ 1）表示“请愿书”，英文解释为“a document signed by a large number of people demanding or asking for some action from the government or another authority”

2）表示“（向法院递交的）上诉书，诉状；申请书”，英文解释为“a formal letter to a law court asking for a particular legal action”举个🌰：She's filing a petition for divorce. 她将要递交离婚诉状。

作动词，petition /pəˈtɪʃ.ən/ 表示“（向法院）递交上诉书，上诉”，英文解释为“to make a formal request for something, especially in a law court”举个🌰：They're petitioning for/about better facilities for disabled people. 他们正在请愿，希望当局能为残疾人安装更好的设施。

possession /pəˈzeʃ.ən/ 1）表示“拥有，占有；具有”，英文解释为“the fact that you have or own something”举个🌰：The possession of large amounts of money does not ensure happiness. 拥有大量金钱并不能保证一定会幸福。I have in my possession a letter which may be of interest to you. 我有一封信，也许你会感兴趣。

2）表示“持有违禁物；私藏毒品（或武器）”，英文解释为“the state of having illegal drugs or weapons with you at a particular time”举个🌰：She was charged with possession. 她被控持有违禁物品。

The Times has not authenticated whether Mr. Epstein wrote the note, which was placed on the court docket Wednesday evening.

《纽约时报》尚未核实这份遗书是否确为爱泼斯坦亲笔所写，该文件已于周三晚间录入法院案件卷宗。

authenticate /ɔːˈθen.tɪ.keɪt/ 表示“证明…是真实的；确认…的真实性；证实”，英文解释为“to prove that something is real, true, or what people say it is”举个🌰：They used carbon dating tests to authenticate the claim that the skeleton was two million years old. 他们利用碳年代测定法证明，这副骨骼有200万年历史的说法是正确的。

The document remained hidden from public view even as the Justice Department released millions of pages of documents related to Mr. Epstein in a move of unprecedented transparency. The Times searched those records and did not find a copy of the note. (A spokeswoman from the Justice Department said the agency had never seen it.)

尽管美国司法部以前所未有的透明度公布了数百万页与爱泼斯坦相关的文件，这份遗书却始终未对外公开。《纽约时报》查阅了公开档案，并未找到这份遗书的副本。（司法部一名发言人表示，该部门此前从未见过这份文件。）

unprecedented /ʌnˈpres.ɪ.den.tɪd/ 表示“史无前例的，空前的；绝无仅有的”，英文解释为“never having happened or existed in the past”举个🌰：This century has witnessed environmental destruction on an unprecedented scale. 环境在本世纪遭到了空前的破坏。

词源和词根："un-"是"不"的意思，"precedented"来自拉丁语的"praecedere"，意为"走在前面"。派生词：unprecedentedly，常用短语：unprecedented event 空前的事件。

🎬电影《星运里的错》（The Fault in Our Stars）中的台词提到：You are so busy being you that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are. 你太忙于做自己 都没有意识到自己是那么的令人心动。

transparency /trænˈspær.ən.si/ 1）表示“透明性，透明”，英文解释为“the characteristic of being easy to see through”举个🌰：The old-fashioned type of plastic lacked transparency. 老式塑料透明性不好。

2）表示“透明度；显而易见；一目了然”，英文解释为“the quality of being done in an open way without secrets”

The search did turn up a cryptic two-page chronology that described how the note became caught up in Mr. Tartaglione's complicated legal case. The chronology said that Mr. Tartaglione's lawyers authenticated the note, though it did not explain how.

不过，查阅过程中确实发现了一份语焉不详的时间线文件，长度为两页，其中记录了这封遗书如何卷入塔尔塔廖内复杂的刑事案件。这份时间线称，塔尔塔廖内的律师已对遗书进行了真伪鉴定，但并未说明具体鉴定方式。

cryptic /ˈkrɪptɪk/ 表示“隐晦的；神秘的，隐秘的；有隐义的；费解的”，英文解释为“A cryptic remark or message contains a hidden meaning or is difficult to understand.”举个🌰：He has issued a short, cryptic statement. 他发表了一个简短、令人捉摸不透的声明。

chronology /krəˈnɒl.ə.dʒi/ 表示“按事件发生的年代排列的顺序；（大事）年表”，英文解释为“the order in which a series of events happened, or a list or explanation of these events in the order in which they happened”举个🌰：I'm not sure of the chronology of events. 我对事件发生的时间顺序不是很有把握。

Mr. Tartaglione, a former police officer in Briarcliff Manor, N.Y., shared a cell with Mr. Epstein while awaiting trial in a quadruple murder case. He told The Times in recent phone interviews from a California prison that he found the note in a graphic novel after Mr. Epstein was taken out of their cell after the apparent suicide attempt.

塔尔塔廖内曾是纽约州布莱尔克利夫庄园的警官，在因一起四人命案候审期间，他与爱泼斯坦同住一间牢房。近期，他在加州监狱接受《纽约时报》电话采访时称，在爱泼斯坦因疑似自杀未遂被带离牢房后，他在一本图文小说里发现了这封遗书。

quadruple /ˈkwɒdrʊpəl, -ˈdruːpəl/ 1）作动词，表示“（使）变为四倍”，英文解释为“to become four times bigger; to make sth four times bigger”举个🌰：Sales have quadrupled in the last five years. 过去五年中，销售额已增长至以前的四倍。

2）表示“大（或多）四倍”，英文解释为“four times as big”如：a quadruple measure 四倍大小；

3）表示“包括四部分（或四个人、四个地方等）的”，英文解释为“involving four parts, people, places, etc.”如：a quadruple fracture of his thumb 他的拇指四处骨折。

“I opened the book to read and there it was,” Mr. Tartaglione said. It was written on a piece of yellow paper ripped from a legal pad, he said.

“我翻开书想读，结果就看到了它，”塔尔塔廖内说。他表示，遗书写在一张从法律记事本上撕下来的黄色纸张上。

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