NorwayKiller Played 1)World of Warcraft, Which Probably 2)Means Nothing at All
-Courtesy of Time Magazine
3) Blame video games — that’s the watch phrase these days when something 4) tragic happens. The non-gaming media seem to enjoy zeroing in on video games that are highlighted in horrifying crimes, invoking the rhetorical question: Do video games 5) screw people up? Like the trial of Norwegian Anders Behring Breivik, 33, a 6) right-wing extremist charged with killing eight people in a car-bomb attack near a government building in Oslo last July and 69 others in a follow-up shooting spree at a youth camp run by Norway’s Labor Party.
大意：當有悲慘的事情發生，就會有人說這是電玩的錯。電玩不斷出現在這些恐怖的犯罪事件中，誠如挪威三十三歲的右翼極端份子布列維克（Anders Behring Breivik）所犯下的冷血殺人罪刑。我們不禁要問，是否電玩帶壞了大家？
In the trial, 7) prosecutors reportedly “painted an image of a Breivik obsessed with the World of Warcraft computer game, prompting the judge to ask whether the game was violent.” At some point, the 8) prosecution must have displayed images from the game in the courtroom, because Reuters says Breivik smiled “when the image of his online character was displayed.” According to Agence France-Presse, the prosecution said Breivik played World of Warcraft “full time” from the summer of 2006 to the summer of 2007. None of the reports indicate that prosecutors were overtly fingering the game as an excuse for Breivik’s behavior, but implication is nine-tenths rationalization when it comes to anything offered up during trial.
大意：在審訊中，檢察官不斷描述布列維克沈迷於電玩「魔獸世界」，讓法官質疑這是「魔獸世界」的暴力指數。因為路透社有報導當布列維克看到自己網路化身出現時，他露出微笑，因此可以推測，在法庭上有時有展示電玩的畫面。 根據法新社的報導，布列維克從2006夏天到2007年夏天一整年什麼事都沒做，只玩魔獸世界。沒有報導明白指出電玩是布列維克行為的導因，然而在審訊中提供的資訊卻有歸咎於電玩的強烈暗示。
1)World of Warcraft 電玩名稱-魔獸世界
2)Means Nothing at All
不代表任何意思，這裡指的就是不能怪罪電玩成為殺人的理由。
3) Blame v. 怪罪。常用 Blame sb for sth。
4) tragic Adj. 悲慘的
5) screw up v 搞砸。這邊的意思很靠近 “電玩帶壞孩子”
6) right-wing extremist 極右派的極端分子
7) prosecutors n. 檢察官。要注意檢察官是代表政府。而被告的律師通常稱為lawyer/ attorney 看律師的名稱就知道是哪一方。
8) prosecution n. 起訴/審訊，相當於後面的trail
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