编者按：Trick or treat 是万圣夜的主要活动。小孩装扮成各种恐怖样子，逐门逐户按响邻居的门铃，索要糖果。下面这一篇英语短文讲述的是由Trick or Treat 活动而引发的事故，感兴趣的小伙们欢迎阅读!
Trick or Treat
(不给吃就捣蛋)
Two girls were trick-or-treating on Halloween night when a large group of teens attacked them, leaving both high school seniors unconscious.
两个女孩在万圣节前夜“不给糖就捣蛋”时，一大群年轻人袭击了她们，使这两个高中生失去了知觉。
One needed surgery to repair her eye socket.
一个需要手术修复她的眼窝。
The victims were white, and their attackers were black.
受害者是白人，她们的攻击者是黑人。
Seven attackers were girls, and one was an 18-year-old boy.
七个攻击者是女生，一个是18岁的男生。
The boy said that he did not attack the girls; he tried to protect them.
这个男生说他没有攻击女孩，他在试图保护她们。
"So why were you swinging a skateboard?" asked a witness.
“所以你为什么要挥滑板?”一名目击者问。
The boy said that he was swinging the skateboard at the attackers, not the victims.
这个男生说他在对攻击者挥滑板，而不是受害人。
The prosecution added "hate crime" to the charge of assault because racial slurs were made before the victims were attacked.
由于种族歧视是在受害者受到攻击之前发生的，所以起诉人增加了“仇恨犯罪”的罪名。
The trial in Long Beach lasted almost four weeks.
长滩的审判持续了将近四个星期。
All the attackers were found guilty, but not one spent even a day in jail.
所有的袭击者都被判有罪，但没人需要在狱中服刑。
The judge sentenced them to "house arrest" for a month.
法官判处他们“软禁”一个月。
House arrest meant that they had to sleep in their own beds at home.
软禁意味着他们不得不睡在自己家里的床上。
The boy had to do 20 hours of community service.
这个男孩必须做20个小时的社区服务。
Law-abiding white and black adults were outraged at the light sentences.
遵纪守法的白人和黑人对这个轻微的判决感到不满。
The two girls required hospital care, yet the thugs received a mere slap on the wrist.
这两个女孩需要医院护理，但暴徒们只得到了名义上的惩罚。
Concerned parents immediately created a website for recalling the judge.
忧心忡忡的家长们立即建立了一个召回法官的网站。
重点知识讲解
本文出现了在关于抢劫，事故，凶杀案新闻中常用到的词，例如：
attack(v.)袭击
attacker(n.)攻击者
victim(n.)受害者
crime(n.)罪刑，罪犯
arrest(v.)逮捕
judge(n.)法官
(v.)审判
jail(n.)监狱
除此之外还有
witness(n.)目击者
知识讲解老师：Linda
公众号：小橙少儿英语
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