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2月17日，江苏省委省政府成立调查组，对“丰县生育八孩女子”事件进行全面调查。今天，调查组公布丰县生育八孩女子事件调查和处理情况。

无注释原文：

Chained Woman in China Was Sold as a Bride Twice

The Wall Street Journal

Responding to online anger set off by footage of a woman in chains, authorities in eastern China said they found that human traffickers had sold the woman in the late 1990s, not to one, but two prospective husbands.

For almost a month, views of posts about the chained woman have topped billions a day on China’s internet, rivaling interest in the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics and forcing attention on a practice the country has long tried to stamp out: the trafficking of women as brides.

The emergence in January of the video clip, which shows the woman, a mother of eight, chained in a shed without a door, quickly led to speculation online that she was treated so poorly because she was a “bought wife.”

Local officials initially denied that this was the case, but authorities later said they had taken into custody a married couple on suspicions of human trafficking, saying the wife of the couple had taken the woman to Jiangsu province from her home in China’s south. On Wednesday, Jiangsu provincial authorities said the couple were convicted human traffickers who had spent several years in prison in the 2000s and that they are now under arrest.

The most recent statement confirmed lower-level authorities’ findings that the woman was from a village in Yunnan province in China’s south and that her name was Xiaohuamei—a name that means Little Plum Blossom. Her husband, identified by his surname, Dong, has been arrested on suspicions of abuse.

The statement contained new details, including that Xiaohuamei on arrival in Jiangsu had first been sold for purposes of marriage to a different man for 5,000 yuan in early 1998, or around $790 under current exchange rates. Within a few months, however, she vanished, the statement said, prompting the buyer to demand 2,000 yuan in compensation from the traffickers.

Later that year, she was sold again, to Mr. Dong’s household in Feng county, part of the city of Xuzhou. Since the video footage emerged, Xiaohuamei has been diagnosed with schizophrenia and is in a hospital, where authorities say her oldest son is taking care of her. The new statement said she is 44 years old.

Some lawyers and rights activists have called for hearing from the woman directly. The statement said the woman wasn’t mentally fit to communicate, citing a medical team in Nanjing, the provincial capital.

Several statements from lower-level authorities haven’t quieted questions over the woman’s plight. The investigation by Jiangsu’s provincial government is continuing, and some observers expect the trafficking of women to be addressed during China’s annual legislative session, the National People’s Congress, in March.

“It’s such a hot topic now,” said Jeremy Daum, a scholar of Chinese criminal law at Yale Law School.

The statement by Jiangsu authorities said that more than a dozen officials in Feng county have been punished for a number of violations, including failing to provide care for the mentally ill, releasing untrue information and forging documents.

In rural China, a traditional preference for boys has skewed China’s gender ratio—a trend that worsened during the decades of China’s now-abandoned one-child policy—and left a surplus of men trying to find wives.

According to a 1991 research paper published by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, a government think tank, nearly one-quarter of women moving to Xuzhou between 1985 and 1988 were bought wives.

Two decades ago, the gender imbalance in Xuzhou was worse than in most parts of China, with 127 boys born for every 100 girls in 2000, census data shows, although it has improved in recent years. Within Xuzhou, Feng county had the most distorted ratio, with 156 boys born for every 100 girls in 2000.

Coercing a woman into marriage has long been against the law in China, but paying money for a wife didn’t become a criminal offense until 1997, punishable by a sentence of up to three years in prison.

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注：中文文本为机器翻译仅供参考，并非一一对应

含注释全文：

Chained Woman in China Was Sold as a Bride Twice

The Wall Street Journal

中国东部地区政府官方在回应网上对一名戴着锁链的妇女的愤怒时称，他们发现人贩子在20世纪90年代末将这名妇女卖给了两个，而不仅仅是一个，潜在的“丈夫”。

set sth. off

表示“引起，引发（常指一系列事件）”，英文解释为“to cause an activity or event, often a series of events, to begin or happen”举个🌰：

The court's initial verdict in the police officers' trial set off serious criticism.

法庭审理这起警官案件作出的初审判决引起了严重的批评。

footage

表示“（描述某一事件的）片段镜头”，英文解释为“Footage of a particular event is a film of it or the part of a film which shows this event.”举个🌰：

They are planning to show exclusive footage from this summer's festivals.

他们计划独家播放今年夏季节日活动的片断镜头。

补充：

📍closed-circuit footage指的是监控录像画面；

📍CCTV：此CCTV非彼CCTV，其中的CC就是Closed Circuit的缩写，TV就是电视Television的缩写。

📍 那么CCTV，闭路电视什么意思呢？据维基百科，闭路电视（简称CCTV）是指在特定的区域进行视频传输，并只在固定回路设备里播放的电视系统。例如录像机、大楼内的监视器等。这类播放模式就被称作闭路电视。下次你可以观察下监控摄像头墙边上是不是有CCTV的字样。

chain

作名词，表示“链子；链条；锁链”；作动词，表示“用链条锁住，拴住；束缚”，英文解释为“to fasten someone or something using a chain”举个🌰：

It's so cruel to keep a pony chained up like that all the time.

把一匹小马驹一直那样拴着真是太残忍了。

trafficker

表示“做非法买卖的人（尤指毒品贩子）”，英文解释为“a person who trades in illegal goods, especially drugs, or who buys or sells people or makes money from the work people are forced to do, such as sex work”如：drug traffickers 毒品贩子，an international arms trafficker 国际军火贩子，human/people traffickers 人口贩子。

prospective

表示“有望的；可能的；预期的；潜在的；即将发生的；行将来临的”，英文解释为“expected to do sth or to become sth；expected to happen soon”如：prospective buyers, employers, parents, etc. 潜在的客户/可能成为雇主的人/即将为人父母者等。

For almost a month, views of posts about the chained woman have topped billions a day on China's internet, rivaling interest in the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics and forcing attention on a practice the country has long tried to stamp out: the trafficking of women as brides.

近一个月来，在中国的互联网上，有关这名被锁住的妇女的帖子的浏览量每天达到数十亿次，与人们对2022年北京冬奥会的兴趣不相上下，并迫使人们关注中国长期以来试图杜绝的行径：拐卖新娘。

句子解析

For almost a month, views of posts about the chained woman have topped billions a day on China's internet, rivaling interest in the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics and forcing attention on a practice the country has long tried to stamp out: the trafficking of women as brides.

📍主要内容：Views have topped billions a day. 浏览量每天达到数十亿次。后面跟了两个由and连接的并列的动名词结构[rivaling interest in the 2022 Beijing Winter Olympics] 对其的关注度堪比对2022年北京冬奥会的，以及[forcing attention on a practice] 迫使人们关注一种做法，什么做法呢？

📍practice后跟了定语从句，修饰practice，指明迫使人们关注的做法：the country has long tried to stamp out (the practice).

top

作动词，表示“高于，超过（某一数量）”，英文解释为“to be higher than a particular amount”举个🌰：

Worldwide sales look set to top $5 billion.

全球销售额看来很可能要超过50亿元。

rival

作动词，表示“可与…相媲美，比得上”，英文解释为“to be as good, clever, beautiful, etc. as someone or something else”举个🌰：

No computer can rival a human brain for/in complexity.

没有任何计算机比得上人脑复杂。

stamp out

表示“消除，消灭”，英文解释为“to get rid of something that is wrong or harmful”举个🌰：

The new legislation is intended to stamp out bullying in schools.

新的立法旨在消除校园霸凌问题。

🎬电影《上帝也疯狂》（The Gods Must Be Crazy）中的台词提到：You stamped out the fire. I saw you. 是你把火踏灭的，我看见了。

🎬电影《1984》（Nineteen Eighty-Four）中的台词提到：We must stamp them out. 我们必须消灭他们。

traffic

熟词僻义，traffic一词除了熟知的“交通”的意思，还有“流量”的含义，英文解释：the movement of messages and signals through an electronic communication system，如“数据流量”：data traffic。

此外，作为动词，还有“贩卖（人口）”的意思，to illegally buy or sell people, or make money from work they are forced to do, such as sex work. 如：人口贩卖 human trafficking.

📍注：traffic (v.) 过去式 trafficked 过去分词：trafficked 现在分词：trafficking.

📍people trafficking/human trafficking表示“贩卖人口”，英文解释为“the crime of buying and selling people, or making money from work they are forced to do, such as sex work”

bride

bride表示“新娘；即将（或刚）结婚的女子”，英文解释为“a woman who is about to get married or has just got married”

bridegroom /ˈbraɪd.ɡrʊm/ = groom 表示“新郎；即将（或刚）结婚的男子”，英文解释为“a man who is about to get married or has just got married”

1月份出现的这段视频显示，这名妇女是8个孩子的母亲，被锁在一个没有门的棚子里，很快就引起了网上的猜测，认为她受到如此虐待是因为她是一个“买来的老婆”。

speculation

表示“推测；猜测；推断”，英文解释为“the act of forming opinions about what has happened or what might happen without knowing all the facts”举个🌰：

There was widespread speculation that she was going to resign.

人们纷纷推测她将辞职。

当地官员最初否认了这一说法，但官方后来表示，他们以涉嫌拐卖人口为由拘留了一对已婚夫妇，并称这对夫妇的妻子将该妇女从中国南方的家中带到了江苏省。周三，江苏省官方表示，这对夫妇是曾被判入狱的人贩子，他们在本世纪初曾在监狱里呆过几年，现在已经被逮捕。

custody

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。

convict

convict表示“证明…有罪；定罪；宣判…有罪”，英文解释为“If someone is convicted of a crime, they are found guilty of that crime in a court of law.”举个🌰：

There was insufficient evidence to convict him.

没有足够的证据证明他有罪。

The most recent statement confirmed lower-level authorities' findings that the woman was from a village in Yunnan province in China's south and that her name was Xiaohuamei—a name that means Little Plum Blossom. Her husband, identified by his surname, Dong, has been arrested on suspicions of abuse.

最新声明证实了下级政府官方的调查结果，即该妇女来自中国南部云南省的一个村庄，她的名字叫小花梅--意思是小的梅花。她的“丈夫”姓董，因涉嫌虐待罪被逮捕。

声明中包含了一些新的细节，包括小花梅在到达江苏后，首先在1998年初以5000元人民币的价格被卖给了另一名男子，按照目前的汇率，大约是790美元。但在几个月内，她就消失了，声明说，这促使买方要求人贩子赔偿2000元。

vanish

表示“（尤指突然）消失，灭绝”，英文解释为“to disappear or stop being present or existing, especially in a sudden, surprising way”举个🌰：

The child vanished while on her way home from school.

那个小女孩在放学回家的路上不见了。

prompt

表示“促使；导致；激起”，英文解释为“to make sb decide to do sth; to cause sth to happen”举个🌰：

His speech prompted an angry outburst from a man in the crowd.

他的讲话激起了人群中一男子的愤怒。

📺美剧《斯巴达克斯：血与沙》（Spartacus: Blood and Sand）中的台词提到：One cannot but wonder what would prompt such an act 不知他们为何遭此不幸。

当年晚些时候，她再次被卖到徐州市丰县的董先生家。自从视频录像出现后，小花梅被诊断为精神分裂症，并被送进医院，官方说她的大儿子正在那里照顾她。新声明称她已经44岁了。

schizophrenia

schizophrenia /ˌskɪtsəʊˈfriːnɪə/ 表示“精神分裂症”，英文解释为“a mental illness in which a person becomes unable to link thought, emotion and behaviour, leading to withdrawal from reality and personal relationships”。

一些律师和维权人士呼吁直接听取该妇女的意见。该声明援引省会南京市的一个医疗小组的话说，该妇女难以正常接触交流。

Several statements from lower-level authorities haven't quieted questions over the woman’s plight. The investigation by Jiangsu’s provincial government is continuing, and some observers expect the trafficking of women to be addressed during China’s annual legislative session, the National People’s Congress, in March.

下级政府官方的几份声明并没有平息对该妇女困境的质疑。江苏省政府的调查仍在继续，一些评论员预计，在3月举行的中国年度立法会议（全国人民代表大会）期间将讨论拐卖妇女的问题。

📍注：提到这个，一年一度的两会又要来了，去年的「合集」政府工作报告中英文对照注释笔记你啃完了吗？

plight

表示“困境，窘境”，英文解释为“an unpleasant condition, especially a serious, sad, or difficult one”，如：the plight of the poor/homeless 穷人/无家可归者的困难处境。

补充：

📍plight作动词，plight one‘s troth表示“答应结婚，订婚；结婚”（to promise to marry someone）。

🎬电影《笔下求生》（Stranger Than Fiction）中的台词提到：lts desperate attempts to escape... only underscore the hopelessness of its plight. 它绝望的挣扎只能强调它无望的处境。

legislative

表示“法律的；立法的”，英文解释为“relating to laws or the making of laws”举个🌰：

The European Parliament will have greater legislative powers (= ability to make laws).

欧洲议会将获得更大的立法权。

“It’s such a hot topic now,” said Jeremy Daum, a scholar of Chinese criminal law at Yale Law School.

耶鲁大学法学院的中国刑法学者杰里米·道姆（Jeremy Daum）说：“现在这是一个热门话题。”

江苏省官方声明说，丰县的十几名官员因一些违规行为而受到处罚，包括没有为精神病患者提供照顾，发布不实的情况通报和伪造文件。

forge

1）表示“努力地缔造；艰苦干成；努力加强”，英文解释为“If one person or institution forges an agreement or relationship with another, they create it with a lot of hard work, hoping that it will be strong or lasting.”举个🌰：

They agreed to forge closer economic ties.

他们同意建立更密切的经济联系。

2）表示“伪造（纸币、文件或画作等）”，英文解释为“If someone forges something such as paper money, a document, or a painting, they copy it or make it so that it looks genuine, in order to deceive people.”举个🌰：

He admitted three charges including forging passports.

他承认了包括伪造护照在内的3项罪名。

在中国农村，对男孩的传统偏好使中国的性别比例失衡--这一趋势在中国现已取消的独生子女政策的几十年里变得更加严重，并使过多的男性试图寻找妻子。

skew

表示“歪曲；曲解；使不公允；影响…的准确性；使歪斜；歪曲；使有误差”，英文解释为“to change or influence sth with the result that it is not accurate, fair, normal, etc.”如：to skew the statistics 影响统计数字的准确性。

These last-minute changes have skewed the company's results.

这些最后一刻才做出的改变影响了公司的业绩。

surplus

表示“过剩；剩余（的），多余（的）；过剩（的）”，英文解释为“If there is a surplus of something, there is more than is needed.”举个🌰：

We are unlikely to produce any surplus this year.

我们今年不太可能有任何盈余。

According to a 1991 research paper published by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, a government think tank, nearly one-quarter of women moving to Xuzhou between 1985 and 1988 were bought wives.

根据中国社会科学院（政府智囊团）1991年发表的一篇研究论文，1985年至1988年期间，迁往徐州的妇女中，有近四分之一是买来的妻子。

think tank

表示“智囊团；智库”，英文解释为“a group of experts brought together, usually by a government, to develop ideas on a particular subject and to make suggestions for action”

人口普查数据显示，二十年前，徐州的性别不平衡状况比中国大部分地区都要严重，2000年，新生儿男女比例127：100，不过近年来情况有所改善。在徐州，丰县的比例最为失衡，2000年，新生儿男女比例156：100。

distorted

表示“歪曲的；曲解的”，英文解释为“changed from the usual, original, natural, or intended form”举个🌰：

This report gives a somewhat distorted impression of what actually happened.

这篇报道有些失实。

📍《经济学人》（The Economist）一篇讲述疫情对全球经济影响的文章中提到：However, though that would provide a brief stimulus, it is a recipe for distorted markets, moral hazard and low growth. 尽管这会带来短暂的刺激，却会导致市场扭曲、道德风险和增长低迷。

Coercing a woman into marriage has long been against the law in China, but paying money for a wife didn't become a criminal offense until 1997, punishable by a sentence of up to three years in prison.

在中国，胁迫妇女结婚长期以来一直是违法的，但直到1997年，花钱买老婆才成为一种刑事犯罪，可判处三年以下有期徒刑。

coerce

表示“强制；胁迫；迫使”，英文解释为“to force someone to do something they do not want to do by threatening them”举个🌰：

The court heard that the six defendants had been coerced into making a confession.

法庭在审理中发现6名被告曾受到逼供。

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