意地震专家因未能准确预报地震受审_BEC初级作文

意地震专家因未能准确预报地震受审

这七位被告面临过失杀人罪及过失伤害罪指控，如果法庭认定罪名成立，他们将面临最多15年监禁。

The decision to prosecute the experts has caused outrage in the scientific world, with Italian and international colleagues saying it is impossible to accurately predict an earthquake。

起诉地震专家一事引发科学界的愤怒，本国和国际同行都表示根本无法准确预报地震。

The Seismological Society of America has described the trial as an unprecedented legal attack on science。

《美国地震学会通报》称，这起案件是对科学空前的法律攻击。

Only one of the seven defendants was in court — Bernardo De Bernardinis, the then deputy head of Italy’s Civil Protection agency。

七位被告中仅有伯纳多·德·伯納迪尼斯一人出庭，他当时担任意大利公民保护局的副主任。

“I felt that it was important to be here because this is my home, and also to underline the professionalism and competence of other public officials. I’m from Abruzzo, I owe it to the people of the city,” he said。

他说：“我觉得出庭很重要，因为这里是我的家，来告诉大家其他官员的专业素质和能力也很重要。我来自阿布鲁佐(译者注：拉奎拉是阿布鲁佐区的一个省)，我深受拉奎拉人民之恩。”

The prosecution alleges that after the experts held an emergency meeting on March 31, 2009, they gave the public only an “approximate, generic and ineffective assessment of seismic activity risks as well as incomplete, imprecise and contradictory information。”