4月26日午间英语新闻：错敲鬼门关！美国因敲错门引发连串血案

>Mistaken addresses lead to deadly shootings
错敲鬼门关！美国因敲错门引发连串血案

A black teen knocked on the wrong door and got shot in Kansas City, Missouri, in one of a series of similar shootings across the US. 
近日，美国密苏里州堪萨斯城一名黑人少年因敲错门而惨遭枪击。此类事件在美国频繁发生引起广泛关注。

Ralph Yarl, 16, went to pick up his siblings from a friend’s house on Thursday night. However, Yarl rang the wrong bell and was shot by the white homeowner, Andrew Lester, 84. 
16岁的黑人少年拉尔夫•亚尔周四（4月13日）晚去朋友家接双胞胎弟弟，因走错地址按响了另一家的门铃，84岁的白人户主安德鲁•莱斯特随即透过玻璃门向他开枪。

Yarl suffered gunshot wounds to his right arm and left frontal lobe above his left eye, and he had to ask at three different homes before someone helped him. Yarl is still hospitalized.
当时亚尔右臂、左眼上方前额叶中枪受伤。他先后向附近三个不同家庭求救才获救。目前仍在医院接受治疗。

“There was a racial component to the case,” said a local prosecutor. Lester has been charged with assault in the first degree and armed criminal action, and faces life in prison.
当地检察官认为，该事件“含有种族因素”。84岁的户主莱斯特被指控一级袭击罪、武装犯罪，面临终身监禁。

On the same day, two police officers responded to a burglary call at an apartment in Brooklyn, New York. They shot and killed a 78-year-old resident after he pointed a gun at them.
同样在4月13日，美国纽约市医护人家疑似遭贼而报警。两名警察抵达目标公寓后，因看到78岁的户主持枪而将其射杀。

On April 15, a 20-year-old New York woman was fatally shot after pulling into the wrong driveway while looking for her friend's house. In early April, three New Mexico police officers responded to a call and knocked on the wrong door; they shot the homeowner after he opened the door with a gun.
4月15日，纽约市一名20岁女子驾车寻找朋友的房子时，因驶入错误物业，遭户主枪杀。4月5日，新墨西哥州三名警察上门处理一起报警时，发现敲错房门，但在户主持枪开门后，警察将其射杀。
重点单词：
lobe
英/ləʊb/ 美/loʊb/
n.（脑、肺等的）叶；裂片；耳垂；波瓣
n.（Lobe）人名；（西）洛韦；（德、喀）洛贝
prosecutor
英/ˈprɒsɪkjuːtə(r)/ 美/ˈprɑːsɪkjuːtər/
n.检察官，公诉人；（刑事庭的）原告律师

> Floating ocean garbage is home to coastal species
太平洋惊现浮积垃圾生态圈

Hundreds of coastal species are thriving in a patch of garbage and plastic situated in the ocean between the Hawaiian islands and California, according to a recent study published in the British journal Nature Ecology and Evolution.
英国期刊《自然•生态学与进化》近期发布研究称，漂浮于美国夏威夷群岛与加利福尼亚州之间海域的大量塑料垃圾带，数百种生物在上面“安家”，已形成独特的生态系统。

At 1.6 million square kilometers (0.62 million square miles), the garbage patch is the world’s largest ocean debris floating area, containing an estimated 1.8 trillion pieces of plastic.
这片垃圾带约160万平方公里，是全球最大的海洋垃圾浮积区，包含约1.8万亿件塑料垃圾。

Researchers studied species found on 105 pieces of debris collected between November 2018 and January 2019, and found that nearly 70 percent of the debris was inhabited by 484 invertebrates, representing 56 species.
研究团队自2018年11月至2019年1月从该垃圾带中取样了105件塑料垃圾，分析后发现，近七成垃圾上居住着484种无脊椎动物，涉及46个物种。

The coexistence of pelagic and coastal creatures shocked the researchers, they said, as plastic is not easily decomposed and floats far in the oceans, which provides living space for crabs, sea anemones and other coastal species.
在这片全新的“垃圾生态系统”中，出现了远洋、近海生物共同生存的奇观，分析认为，塑料垃圾难以分解，长期漂浮在海洋远处，这为螃蟹、海葵等近海生物提供了生存空间。

Researchers said it was unclear what consequences the ecosystem would bring.
研究人员表示，目前尚不清楚“垃圾生态系统”会带来什么后果。

About 460 million tons of plastic waste are produced globally each year, but only around 9 percent is recycled, and much ends up in the oceans, according to the United Nations Environment Program.
联合国环境规划署资料显示，全球每年生产约4.6亿吨塑料制品，但只有大约9%的塑料垃圾会被回收再利用，大量塑料垃圾最终会进入海洋。

重点稿件：
pelagic
英/pəˈlædʒɪk/ 美/pəˈlædʒɪk/
adj. 浮游的；远洋的，深海的