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Ashton Kutcher Testifies: Bringing the 'Hollywood Ripper' to justice?
阿什顿·库彻作证：将“好莱坞开膛手”绳之以法？
The trial of an alleged serial killer takes a dramatic turn when a star connected to one of the victims takes the stand
当一位与一受害者有关联的明星出庭时，对一名连环杀手的审判发生了戏剧性的转折
At the time, it seemed like an unremarkable night with a familiar story line—just a guy late for a first date with a girl who had gotten tired of waiting and refused to come to the door when he finally showed up.
在那个时候，这似乎是一个平凡的夜晚，有着熟悉的故事情节——一个男孩第一次约会迟到了，女孩已经等得不耐烦了，当他终于出现的时候，她拒绝开门。
But 18 years later, on May 29, actor Ashton Kutcher reconstructed every minute detail of it for a rapt, packed Los Angeles courtroom.
但18年后的5月29日，演员阿什顿·库彻(Ashton Kutcher)在洛杉矶一间座无虚席的法庭上重现了这段视频的每一个细节。
On Feb. 21, 2001, Kutcher, then shaggy-haired and just starting toward stardom with his TV role in That '70s Show, had made plans with fashion student Ashley Ellerin, whom he'd met at a party months before.
2001年2月21日，当时头发蓬乱的库彻刚刚开始在《70年代秀》中出演一个电视角色，他已经和时装专业的学生阿什利·埃勒琳(Ashley Ellerin)订好了计划，两人几个月前在一个派对上见过面。
Appearing nervous as he relived that evening from the stand, Kutcher recalled how Ellerin sounded unfazed when he called a half hour before their 8 p.m. dinner plans that night to say he was watching the Grammys on TV and suggested that "instead of having dinner, maybe we'd just have drinks."
当晚库彻作证结束后，显得有些紧张。他回忆起与埃勒林约定当晚八点一起吃晚饭，离八点还有一个半小时的时候，埃勒琳打来了电话，她听起来很平静，她说她在看电视里的格莱美颁奖典礼，建议“别吃饭了，我们一起喝一杯吧”。
By the time he knocked at Ellerin's front door three hours later, the lights inside were on, but there was no answer—not at the door or at the two phone numbers he had for her.
三个小时后，当他敲埃勒琳家的前门时，里面的灯还亮着，但是没有人应答——敲门没人开门，他给她的两个电话号码打电话也没人接。
"I looked through the window, didn't see anything and just assumed that she had gone out with her friend and bailed on me," Kutcher testified.
库彻在证词中说：“我从窗户往外看，什么也没看到，我只是以为她和朋友出去玩了，然后就放了我鸽子。”
In a conservative blue suit, his hair neatly parted, he guessed that he had left just two messages on her phone that night: "I was trying to take her on a date, and I didn't want to seem, like, overeager."
他穿着一套保守的蓝色套装，头发整齐地分开，他猜那天晚上他只给她的手机上发了两条信息：“我想带她去约会，我不想显得太急切。”
With one last peek inside the house ("The place was a little bit of a mess," he said; " ... I saw what I thought was red wine spilled on the carpet"), Kutcher got back in his car and never saw Ellerin again.
最后他往屋子里看了一眼（“这地方有点乱，”他说；“…我看到那些，以为是红酒洒在地毯上了”），库彻回到车里，再也没有见到埃勒琳。
"I figured that I screwed up and showed up too late."
“我觉得自己搞砸了，来得太晚了。”
The next morning Ellerin's roommate came home to find that what Kutcher mistook from afar for the remnants of a party were, up close, a bloody horror: Ellerin was dead—stabbed more than 47 times.
第二天早上，埃勒琳的室友回到家，发现库彻从远处看来误以为是派对残余的东西，近距离看，却是一场血腥的恐怖：埃勒林被刺死了47多刀。
Now justice may be at hand. Prosecutors say Ellerin and at least three other women were victims of the "Hollywood Ripper," a 43-year-old former HVAC repairman named Michael Gargiulo.
现在正义可能就在眼前。检察官说，埃勒琳和其他至少三名女性是“好莱坞开膛手”的受害者。这位43岁的开膛手以前是暖通空调维修工，名叫迈克尔·加吉罗。
重点讲解
1.rapt全神贯注的
What makes you happy is paying rapt attention to something that interests and absorbs you, she says.
让你快乐的是全神贯注于某件令你感兴趣、令你投入的东西上她说。
2.peek偷窥
On two occasions she had peeked at him through a crack in the wall.
有两次她曾透过墙上的一个裂缝偷窥了他。
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