万花筒 2009-04-13&04-14 被劫船只船长获救

Breaking News on the Sunday afternoon, the story we have been following for you for more than 100 hours, five days, of the American captain being held captive by Somali pirates. We have learned today he has been released. Let's find out the details of that release. Find out how he is doing. Let me bring in Zain Verjee. She's our State Department correspondent, who's live on the line for us.

What we are hearing here in London, and this is from a senior US official that has knowledge of the situation on the ground that is fluid but initial reports indicating that the captain jumped overboard again. According to this source, that provided an opportunity. It left the pirates exposed in the boat and apparently¹ they trained their rifle onto captain Richard Philips. Before they could take any action or pull the trigger, they themselves were shot and killed. The fourth pirate is in custody², and the reason he is in custody and alive, is that he has actually gone to the USS Bainbridge to negotiate, so they have him in custody, Melissa.

Tells us more about what you know about that, say, when did he go to the USS Bainbridge for that negotiation³?

Well, this is, those details are unclear, because this is a fluid and developing situation and we're beginning to receive information trickling⁴ in from different sources. It's not clear exactly when that happened or exactly how far either of the vessels⁵ was from the Somali coast. We understood early on that, about 40 miles away from the Somali boarder and the pirate’s lair⁶ is where Captain Richard Phillips would, may, would may have inevitably⁷ ended up. But it appears that opportunity was created and the US Navy Seals and the military took advantage of the situation. This happened just a short while ago. So information coming in and this sort of situation may, may trickle⁸ in slowly and be differing in some instances. It's important to understand that, but what we do understand is that Captain Richard Phillips is freed and on the USS Bainbridge, I asked my source where it was going and it wasn’t clear where, specifically it would head, to the port of Mombasa in Kenya or not, Melissa.

Zain Verjee live on the line for us from London.

1 apparently   

adv.显然地；表面上，似乎

参考例句：

• An apparently blind alley leads suddenly into an open space.山穷水尽，豁然开朗。
• He was apparently much surprised at the news.他对那个消息显然感到十分惊异。

2 custody   

n.监护，照看，羁押，拘留

参考例句：

• He spent a week in custody on remand awaiting sentence.等候判决期间他被还押候审一个星期。
• He was taken into custody immediately after the robbery.抢劫案发生后，他立即被押了起来。

3 negotiation   

n.谈判，协商

参考例句：

• They closed the deal in sugar after a week of negotiation.经过一星期的谈判，他们的食糖生意成交了。
• The negotiation dragged on until July.谈判一直拖到7月份。

4 trickling   

n.油画底色含油太多而成泡沫状突起v.滴( trickle的现在分词 )；淌；使)慢慢走；缓慢移动

参考例句：

• Tears were trickling down her cheeks. 眼泪顺着她的面颊流了下来。
• The engine was trickling oil. 发动机在滴油。 来自《简明英汉词典》

5 vessels   

n.血管( vessel的名词复数 )；船；容器；（具有特殊品质或接受特殊品质的）人

参考例句：

• The river is navigable by vessels of up to 90 tons. 90 吨以下的船只可以从这条河通过。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• All modern vessels of any size are fitted with radar installations. 所有现代化船只都有雷达装置。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》

6 lair   

n.野兽的巢穴；躲藏处

参考例句：

• How can you catch tiger cubs without entering the tiger's lair?不入虎穴，焉得虎子？
• I retired to my lair,and wrote some letters.我回到自己的躲藏处，写了几封信。

7 inevitably   

adv.不可避免地；必然发生地

参考例句：

• In the way you go on,you are inevitably coming apart.照你们这样下去，毫无疑问是会散伙的。
• Technological changes will inevitably lead to unemployment.技术变革必然会导致失业。

8 trickle   

vi.淌，滴，流出，慢慢移动，逐渐消散

参考例句：

• The stream has thinned down to a mere trickle.这条小河变成细流了。
• The flood of cars has now slowed to a trickle.汹涌的车流现在已经变得稀稀拉拉。