万花筒 Kaleidoscope 2007-05-10&11, 希尔顿无照驾驶入狱45天

Yeah, it’s a moment that we are all waiting for. What kind of jail time would Paris Hilton get? Or prosecutors² would ride on ----- they were asking for 45 days, and that’s exactly what she got. She came in about 10 minutes late to the hearing today. She was dressed very conservatively here to do business and she did take the stand, now when she was on the stand, she said that she was unaware³ that she was not allowed to drive. She said that after 30 days, her publicist told her that after 30 days, she was allowed to go to and from work. And when at some point, the prosecutor¹ said well, you know, didn't you check your mail? Didn’t you sign something saying that you understood that you were not allowed to drive? She said, at some point, I don’t read everything that I am asked to sign. I, people told me to sign things, I signed them and I don’t read all of my mail. Elliot Mintz, who is her publicist also took the stand that he actually agreed with her. He said that, yes, he did tell his client that after 30 days, she was allowed to drive to and from work. But the Judge Apollo was not buying it. He said that Elliot Mintz, he actually compared him to Cyrano De Bergerac at a point ---- falling on the sword for his client. And also he said that there was no question that Paris knew her license⁴ was suspended but she chose to ignore it. Now I gotta tell you, the response in the courtroom from Kathy Hilton was definitely notable. She was absolute that Kathy Hilton being her mother, was absolutely disturbed by this whole thing. At one point, she was, we were told, that she asked the prosecutors for an autograph. And she also came out here at the very end. She was the only one that spoke⁵ Paris Hilton was a little, you know, absolutely hurt by this whole thing. She wasn't crying, but her mother was, adamant⁶, she said this was absolutely pathetic, and you know, it’s just awful that this happened to her daughter, and that was something that should not have happened. Now I want to tell you one, one last thing, that she has until June 5th to report to the Century Regional Detention⁷ Facility in Lynwood to serve her time.

1 prosecutor   

n.起诉人；检察官，公诉人

参考例句：

• The defender argued down the prosecutor at the court.辩护人在法庭上驳倒了起诉人。
• The prosecutor would tear your testimony to pieces.检查官会把你的证言驳得体无完肤。

2 prosecutors   

检举人( prosecutor的名词复数 )； 告发人； 起诉人； 公诉人

参考例句：

• In some places,public prosecutors are elected rather than appointed. 在有些地方，检察官是经选举而非任命产生的。 来自口语例句
• You've been summoned to the Prosecutors' Office, 2 days later. 你在两天以后被宣到了检察官的办公室。

3 unaware   

a.不知道的，未意识到的

参考例句：

• They were unaware that war was near. 他们不知道战争即将爆发。
• I was unaware of the man's presence. 我没有察觉到那人在场。

4 license   

n.执照，许可证，特许；v.许可，特许

参考例句：

• The foreign guest has a license on the person.这个外国客人随身携带执照。
• The driver was arrested for having false license plates on his car.司机由于使用假车牌而被捕。

5 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。

6 adamant   

adj.坚硬的，固执的

参考例句：

• We are adamant on the building of a well-off society.在建设小康社会这一点上，我们是坚定不移的。
• Veronica was quite adamant that they should stay on.维罗妮卡坚信他们必须继续留下去。

7 detention   

n.滞留，停留；拘留，扣留；(教育)留下

参考例句：

• He was kept in detention by the police.他被警察扣留了。
• He was in detention in connection with the bribery affair.他因与贿赂事件有牵连而被拘留了。