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JessicaLadd_2016F-_性侵受害者需要的举报平台_
Hannah is excited to be going to college. 汉娜对于即将到来的大学生活感到十分兴奋。
She couldn't wait to get out of her parents' house, to prove to them that she's an adult, and to prove to her new friends that she belongs. 她迫不及待地想要离开父母, 我们通过及早制止屡次作案的罪犯, 并且有了属于自己的朋友圈。
She heads to a campus party where she sees a guy that she has a crush on. 在一个校园派对上, 她对一个男生一见钟情。
campus:n.(大学)校园;大学,大学生活;校园内的草地; crush:v.压碎;弄皱,变形;使…挤入;n.粉碎;迷恋;压榨;拥挤的人群;
Let's call him Mike. 让我们称他为迈克。
The next day, Hannah wakes up with a pounding headache. 第二天,汉娜在剧烈的头痛中醒来。
She can only remember the night in flashes . 她对昨晚的记忆只剩下零星的碎片。
flashes:n.闪光灯;光芒;披峰;v.闪光;反射;(flash的第三人称单数和复数)
But what she does remember is throwing up in the hall outside Mike's room and staring at the wall silently while he was inside her, wanting it to stop, then shakily stumbling home. 她只记得 在迈克房间外的走廊上呕吐, 想起当迈克在她身体里时,自己只能无声的盯着墙壁 等待着一切快点结束, 然后,她跌跌撞撞的回了家。
staring:adj.凝视的,目不转睛的;显眼的;v.凝视;盯着看;显眼;(stare的现在分词) shakily:adv.虚弱不堪地;颤抖着;摇动着; stumbling:v.绊脚;蹒跚而行;(不顺畅地)说,读,演奏(stumble的现在分词)
She doesn't feel good about what happened, but she thinks, "Maybe this is just what sex in college is?" 对于所发生的一切,她并不觉得美好, 但她心想:“或许,这就是大学里的性体验吧？”
One in five women and one in 13 men will be sexually assaulted at some point during their college career in the United States. 五分之一的女性和十三分之一的男性将会 在美国大学生涯里的某一时刻遭遇性侵。
sexually:adv.性,性欲 assaulted:v.猛烈攻击,袭击,侵犯人身;使(感官)难受;(assault的过去分词和过去式) career:n.职业;事业;生涯;经历; United:adj.联合的; v.联合,团结; (unite的过去分词和过去式)
Less than 10 percent will ever report their assault to their school or to the police. 但他们中只有不超过十分之一的人会向学校或者 警局报案。
And those who do, on average, wait 11 months to make the report. 而这些被性侵的报案人,平均要等待11个月才会进行举报。
Hannah initially just feels like dealing with what happened on her own. 汉娜本打算自己处理在她身上所发生的一切,
initially:adv.最初,首先;开头;
But when she sees Mike taking girls home from parties, she's worried about them. 但每当她看到迈克从派对上带着其他女孩回家时, 她非常担心那些女孩。
After graduation, Hannah learns that she was one of five women who Mike did the exact same thing to. 在毕业之后,汉娜才得知 她是被迈克性侵的五个女孩之一。
And this is not an unlikely scenario because 90 percent of sexual assaults are committed by repeat offenders . 事实可能比这更糟, 因为百分之九十的性侵案件 都是由累犯犯下的。
unlikely:adj.不大可能发生的;非心目中的;非想象的;难以相信的; scenario:n.方案;情节;剧本; assaults:n.攻击(assault的复数);vt.攻击;袭击(assault的第三人称单数); committed:adj.坚信的; v.做出错事; (commit的过去分词和过去式) offenders:n.罪犯(offender的复数);冒犯者;
But with such low reporting rates, it's fairly unlikely that even repeat perpetrators will be reported, much less anything happen if they are. 但由于极低的告发率, 即使是累犯,都可能很难被告发, 更不用说他们会受到惩罚了。
fairly:adv.相当地;公平地;简直; perpetrators:n.作恶者;行凶者;犯罪者;(perpetrator的复数)
In fact, only six percent of assaults reported to the police end with the assailant spending a single day in prison. 事实上,在那些向警方告发的性侵案件中只有百分之六的 性侵者受到了（最多）被拘禁一天的处罚。
assailant:n.攻击者;adj.袭击的;攻击的;
Meaning, there's a 99 percent chance that they'll get away with it . 这意味着,在美国他们将有百分之九十九的可能逃之夭夭 。
get away with it:na.侥幸成功;逃脱处罚;
This means there's practically no deterrent to assault in the United States. 这说明在美国,对于此类性侵案的实际震慑力 非常小。
practically:adv.实际地;几乎;事实上; deterrent:adj.遏制的,威慑的;制止的;n.威慑;妨碍物;挽留的事物;
Now, I'm an infectious disease epidemiologist by training. 我是一个受训的主攻感染性疾病的流行病学家。
infectious:adj.传染的;传染性的;易传染的; disease:n.病,[医]疾病;弊病;vt.传染;使…有病; epidemiologist:n.流行病学家;
I'm interested in systems and networks and where we can concentrate our resources to do the most good. 我对系统和网络十分感兴趣, 那是一个我们能聚集我们的研究成果以达到最好效果的地方。
concentrate:n.浓缩物;v.聚精会神;集中(注意力);使…集中(或集合、聚集);(使)浓缩; resources:n.[计][环境]资源; v.向…提供资金(resource的第三人称单数);
So this, to me, is a tragic but a solvable problem. 因此在我看来,性侵是一个无比悲痛,但却是一个可以解决的问题。
tragic:adj.悲剧的;悲痛的,不幸的; solvable:adj.可以解决的;可以解的;可溶的;
So when the issue of campus assault started hitting the news a few years ago, it felt like a unique opportunity to make a change. 所以,当校园性侵事件在几年前上了新闻头条时, 我想,这会是一个独一无二的做出改变的机会。
issue:n.重要议题;争论的问题;v.宣布;公布;发出;发行; unique:adj.独特的,稀罕的;[数]唯一的;n.独一无二的人或物;
And so we did. 并且,我们做到了。
We started by talking to college survivors. 我们从采访校园性侵案的幸存者开始。
And what they wish they'd had in college is pretty simple; they wanted a website, one they could use at the time and place that felt safest to them with clearly written information about their reporting options , 这些人的愿望其实很简单; 他们希望有一个网站, 能够让他们在自己觉得安全的 时间和地点使用, 具有可供选择的举报方式,
options:n.选择; v.得到或获准进行选择; (option的三单形式)
with the ability to electronically report their assault, rather than having the first step to go in and talk to someone who may or may not believe them. 以及自动生成案件举报报告的功能, 而不是在一开始就需要 在一个房间中,向一个不确定是否会相信他们的人诉说。
electronically:adv.电子地;
With the option to create a secure, timestamped document of what happened to them, preserving evidence even if they don't want to report yet. 网站还应具有一个安全的,有时间标记的文件档案 记录整个性侵事件的经过, 保存下证据,即使受侵害者暂时还不想告发。
preserving:n.保留,保存; evidence:n.证据,证明;迹象;明显;v.证明;
And lastly, and perhaps most critically , with the ability to report their assault only if someone else reported the same assailant. 最后,同时可能也是最关键的一点, 当有其他人告发了相同的性侵者时, 网站就会报道出受害者的遭遇。
critically:adv.精密地;危急地;批评性地;用钻研眼光地;
You see, knowing that you weren't the only one changes everything. 你瞧,你不是惟一一个去改变一切的人。
It changes the way you frame your own experience, it changes the way you think about your perpetrator, it means that if you do come forward, you'll have someone else's back and they'll have yours. 这个网站改变了你对待自己所经历的事的方式, 它改变了你看待作恶者的角度, 它意味着如果你向前进一步, 你将会得到其他人的支持,她们也同样会得到你的支持。
frame:n.框架; v.设计; adj.有木架的;
We created a website that actually does this and we launched it [...] in August, on two college campuses . 我们创造了一个可以将这些实现的网站, 并且我们在两个月前开始运作,在今年8月份在两所大学中 开始使用。
launched:v.发射;发起;开展;开始;(launch的过去式和过去分词) campuses:(大学)校园;大学;校园内的草地(campuse的复数);
And we included a unique matching system where if Mike's first victim had come forward, saved her record, entered into the matching system and named Mike, and Mike's second victim had done the same thing a few months later, they would have matched 我们打造了一个独特的匹配系统, 当遭受迈克性侵的第一位受害者报过案后, 网站会将她的记录保存并放入匹配系统中, 将其命名为迈克。 几个月后,当遭受迈克性侵的第二位受害者 在系统中记录下案件时, 两起案件会自动匹配,
victim:n.受害人;牺牲品;牺牲者;
and the verified contact information of both survivors would have been sent to the authorities at the same time for investigation and follow up. 案件幸存者的联系方式 经核实后同时被送往当局 以供调查和实时追踪。
verified:adj.已查清的,已证实的; contact:n.接触,联系;v.使接触,联系; authorities:n.权力;威权;职权;批准;(authority的复数) at the same time:同时;另一方面;与此同时;
If a system like this had existed for Hannah and her peers , it's more likely that they would have reported, that they would have been believed, and that Mike would have been kicked off campus, gone to jail , or at least gotten the help that he needed. 如果有一个这样为汉娜和她的同伴所打造的系统, 这个系统让她们能更加主动的告发案件, 更容易被他人相信, 而这样,迈克将更有可能被退学, 送往监狱,或者至少得到他所需要的帮助。
peers:n.平辈,同事(peer的复数);v.凝视;比得上(peer的三单形式); jail:n.监狱;监牢;拘留所;v.监禁;下狱;
And if we were able to stop repeat offenders like Mike after just their second assault following a match, survivors like Hannah would never even be assaulted in the first place . 如果我们能在诸如迈克一样的累犯在第二次性侵事件 被系统匹配后,立刻制止他, 像汉娜一样的幸存者就将避免 受到侵害。
in the first place:首先;起初;
We could prevent 59 percent of sexual assaults just by stopping repeat perpetrators earlier on. 我们通过及早制止屡次作案的罪犯, 可以防止百分之五十九的性侵案件发生。
And because we're creating a real deterrent to assault, for perhaps the first time, maybe the Mikes of the world would never even try to assault anyone. 我们正建立一个真正的对性侵案件具有威慑力的系统, 因此在第一时间, 世界上的“迈克们”将可能永远没有机会去性侵他人。
Mikes:话筒(mike的复数)
The type of system I'm describing , the type of system that survivors want is a type of information escrow , meaning an entity that holds on to information for you and only releases it to a third party when certain pre-agreed upon conditions are met, such as a match. 这个我正在向您介绍的系统, 同时也是那些幸存者所期盼的系统, 是一类信息契约, 这种契约为你保存你的信息, 并在条件达到某些协议约定的时候, 才向第三方透露你的信息, 例如一次匹配。
describing:v.描述;形容;把…称为;做…运动;(describe的现在分词) escrow:n.由第三者保存附带条件委付盖印的契约; vt.把…暂交第三者保管以待条件实现; entity:n.实体;存在;本质; releases:n.释放; vt.释放;
The application that we built is for college campuses. 这是我们为大学所打造的系统。
application:n.应用;申请;应用程序;敷用;
But the same type of system could be used in the military or even the workplace . 同样类型的系统也可应用于军队中, 或者工作场所。
military:adj.军事的;军人的;适于战争的;n.军队;军人; workplace:n.工作场所;车间;
We don't have to live in a world where 99 percent of rapists get away with it. 我们不是一定要活在 百分之九十九的性侵者都会逃脱的世界。
rapists:n.强奸犯;强奸者;(rapist的复数)
We can create one where those who do wrong are held accountable , where survivors get the support and justice they deserve , where the authorities get the information they need, and where there's a real deterrent to violating the rights of another human being. 我们有能力创造一个世界, 在那里,违者必究, 在那里,幸存者能得到她们应得的支持和正义, 在那里,当权者能得到他们所需的信息, 那里对于侵犯他人权利的人 会具有真正的威慑力。
accountable:adj.有责任的;有解释义务的;可解释的; justice:n.公平;公正;司法制度;审判; deserve:vi.应受,应得; violating:v.违背,违反(violate的现在分词);
Thank you. 谢谢。
(Applause) （掌声）