Kercher police beat me, Knox says

Kercher police beat me, Knox saysThe woman accused of killing¹ UK student Meredith Kercher has told her Italian trial she was beaten by police who wanted her to name a suspect.
　　American Amanda Knox said she wrongly implicated²（纠缠） an innocent³ man under police pressure. Police deny any misconduct.（处理不当）Ms Knox, 21, claims she was at the home of her ex-boyfriend, Italian Raffaele Sollecito, 24, who also denies the murder, when her housemate was killed.
　　Ms Kercher, 21, of south London, was stabbed⁴ to death on 1 November 2007.
　　The Leeds University student's body was discovered in the bedroom of the house she shared with Ms Knox in the Umbrian university city of Perugia the following day.
　　Her throat had been cut.
　　Giving evidence for the first time, Ms Knox described returning home to find the door open and nobody answering when she called.
　　"I went to my room and changed, went to the bathroom and saw spots of blood there," she told the packed courtroom.（法庭，审判庭）"I had a shower and on the way back to my room I saw blood on the floor. I thought: 'Hm, strange'."Another flatmate, Filomena Romanelli, returned to the house to discover her window had been broken, before they noticed Ms Kercher's door was locked, Ms Knox said.
　　"I felt strange, it was a strange situation," she added.
　　She said she had not seen the murder scene but added: "I heard there was a body in there. There was lots of confusion⁵.
　　"I was in shock. I couldn't believe what had happened, couldn't accept it."ConfusionMs Knox was on a student exchange from Seattle's University of Washington when Ms Kercher died.
　　The court heard she had implicated innocent Patrick Lumumba, who employed her as a barmaid（酒吧女）, during police questioning.
　　When his lawyer, Carlo Pacelli, asked her why, she replied: "Everything [I] said was said in confusion and under pressure.
　　"They [the officers questioning me] were suggesting Patrick Lumumba so the first thing I said was 'OK, Patrick'."When asked if she had been hit by police, Ms Knox replied: "Yes".
　　She told the court that before she named Mr Lumumba, officers had accused her of trying to protect someone.
　　"When I denied that, they called me a stupid liar," she said.
　　Ms Knox claimed the officers had threatened her with prison and that in her confusion she had started to imagine that what they said was true and that she was traumatised（是受损伤）.
　　"The declarations⁶ were taken against my will," she added.
　　She said she eventually realised that what she had thought about Mr Lumumba was "just imagination".
　　"I felt very, very bad about it," she added.
　　She went on to tell the court that she had enjoyed good relations with Ms Kercher and had last seen her at 1pm on the day before her body was found.
　　Later that day Mr Lumumba had sent her a text message telling her not to go to work, she said.
　　'Doing homework'
　　Consequently⁷, she spent the evening at Mr Sollecito's apartment where the couple ate dinner, smoked a marijuana（大麻） joint⁸ and went to bed.
　　She said she woke up next to Mr Sollecito the following day.
　　Earlier, she had told the court she was surprised when she arrived at the police station to discover that police wanted to question her about the murder.
　　"I was sitting on my own doing my homework when a couple of police officers came and sat with me," she told the court.
　　"They began to ask me the same questions they'd been asking me all those days ever since it happened.
　　"For instance⁹, who could I imagine could be the person who had killed Meredith, and I said I still didn't know."A third person, Rudy Guede, has been jailed¹⁰ for 30 years for the killing.(本文由在线英语听力室)

1 killing   

n.巨额利润；突然赚大钱，发大财

参考例句：

• Investors are set to make a killing from the sell-off.投资者准备清仓以便大赚一笔。
• Last week my brother made a killing on Wall Street.上个周我兄弟在华尔街赚了一大笔。

2 implicated   

adj.密切关联的；牵涉其中的

参考例句：

• These groups are very strongly implicated in the violence. 这些组织与这起暴力事件有着极大的关联。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Having the stolen goods in his possession implicated him in the robbery. 因藏有赃物使他涉有偷盗的嫌疑。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》

3 innocent   

adj.无罪的，清白的；无害的；天真的，单纯的

参考例句：

• I'm not quite so innocent as to believe that.我还不至于简单到相信那种事的地步。
• I was very young,and very innocent.我那时非常年轻，幼稚无知。

4 stabbed   

adj. 刺中的, 中伤的, 刺穿的 动词stab的过去式和过去分词形式

参考例句：

• He was stabbed to death in a racist attack. 他遭到种族主义者的袭击，被刺死了。
• The woman stabbed at her attacker with a pair of scissors. 那个妇人手持剪刀向攻击者刺去。

5 confusion   

n.困惑，迷乱，混淆，混乱，骚乱

参考例句：

• His answers to my questions have only added to my confusion.他对我的问题的回答只是使我更加困惑不解。
• His unexpected arrival threw us into total confusion.他的突然来访使我们完全不知所措。

6 declarations   

n.宣布( declaration的名词复数 )；宣言；申报（单）；申诉

参考例句：

• Consular invoices are declarations made at the consulate of the importing country. 领事发票是进口国领事馆签发的一种申报书。 来自辞典例句
• Nothing could have been more open than her declarations about herself. 没有什么会比她讲到她自己时更坦率的了。 来自辞典例句

7 consequently   

adv.因此，因而，所以

参考例句：

• She was a bright and eager student and,consequently,did well in school.她是个聪明好学的学生，因此学习成绩很好。
• The company went bankrupt and consequently he lost his job.公司破产，因此他失业了。

8 joint   

adj.联合的，共同的；n.关节，接合处；v.连接，贴合

参考例句：

• I had a bad fall,which put my shoulder out of joint.我重重地摔了一跤，肩膀脫臼了。
• We wrote a letter in joint names.我们联名写了封信。

9 instance   

n.例，例证，实例

参考例句：

• Can you quote me a recent instance?你能给我举一个最近的例子吗？
• He's a greedy boy,yesterday,for instance,he ate all our biscuits!他是个贪吃的孩子――比如，他昨天把我们的饼干都吃了！

10 jailed   

监禁，拘留( jail的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• He was jailed for life for murder. 他因杀人罪被终生监禁。
• The kidnappers had threatened to behead all four unless their jailed comrades were released. 帮匪们曾经威胁说如果印度方面不释放他们的同伙，他们就要将这四名人质全部斩首。