'I Can't Breathe': A UK Student's Death, and a Lie That Was Believed First — HSK 3 Chinese Listening Practice (4:35) | Fluentide

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今天我们说一件，让英国很多人都很难过的事。

也是一件，让很多人开始反思的事。

故事发生在英国，一个叫南安普顿的城市。

时间，是去年年底。

主角，是一个十八岁的大学生。

他叫亨利·诺瓦克。

亨利还很年轻，前面的路还很长。

但是那一个晚上，把一切都改变了。

那天晚上，亨利在外面。

另一个比他大几岁的男人，

叫迪格瓦，向他动了手。

迪格瓦用刀，刺伤了亨利。

伤得很重。

亨利倒在地上，流了很多血。

他急需有人来救他。

在英国，遇到这种事，

人们第一时间会报警。

警察很快就赶到了现场。

警察来了，本来是救命的。

但是，问题恰恰出在这里。

警察赶到的时候，

现场有两个人：

一个，是身受重伤的亨利。

另一个，是行凶的迪格瓦。

两个人都在说话，

但是说的，完全相反。

迪格瓦很狡猾。

他抢先一步，对警察撒了谎。

他反过来说，自己才是受害者。

他还说，自己是因为种族，

被对方仇恨、攻击的。

这是一个彻头彻尾的谎言。

但是这个谎，说得又快又像真的。

警察在那一刻，

竟然先信了行凶者的话。

于是，最荒唐的一幕发生了。

警察没有先去救那个真正的受害者，

反而把身受重伤的亨利，

当成了嫌疑人，

给他戴上了手铐。

此时的亨利，已经非常虚弱。

他用尽最后的力气，对警察说：

“我喘不上气了。

我喘不上气了。”

这句英文是 I can't breathe。

他是在告诉警察：

我快不行了，请救救我。

但是那名警察，

只是冷冷地回了一句：

“我看你没什么事吧。”

等到警察终于反应过来，

解开手铐、开始急救的时候，

一切都已经太晚了。

亨利，永远地离开了。

他才十八岁。

说到这里，可能有的朋友会想到，

几年前美国的乔治·弗洛伊德。

那个同样喊着 I can't breathe，

最后死在警察手里的黑人。

没错，正是因为这句话，

亨利的事，在英国引起了巨大的争论。

有人借机说，

警察对白人有偏见。

也有人说，事情根本不是那样。

这件事，

甚至引发了一些激烈的抗议。

我们今天不去站任何一边。

因为有一点，是双方都认同的——

那就是：那天晚上，

那个真正在求救的人，没有被相信。

后来，真相在法庭上，

被一点一点还原了出来。

陪审团认定，

真正行凶杀人的，就是迪格瓦。

他不但夺走了一条生命，

还在现场，对警察说了谎。

最后，法院判他终身监禁，

至少要坐二十一年牢。

而当地警方，

也为那天晚上的处置，

公开道了歉。

现在，还有一个独立的调查，

专门在查：

那天晚上，警察到底错在哪里。

节目最后，我们一起想一想。

这件事最刺痛人的地方，

其实和肤色、和立场，都无关。

它刺痛人的，是一个最朴素的问题：

当两个人站在你面前，

一个说真话，一个说假话，

你，凭什么去相信谁？

我们每个人，

都可能在某个瞬间，

成为那个做判断的人。

也都可能，成为那个，

拼命说着真话，

却没有被相信的人。

所以最后，我想问你。

如果有一天，

有一个人，在你面前说他很痛、很需要帮助，

但是他的样子，让你有点怀疑。

你，会怎么做？

你会，先选择相信他吗？

English transcript reference

Today we'll talk about something that made many people in the UK very sad.

It's also something that made many people start to reflect.

The story happened in the UK, in a city called Southampton.

The time was late last year.

The main character was an eighteen-year-old university student.

He was called Henry Nowak.

Henry was still very young, with a long road ahead.

But that one night changed everything.

That night, Henry was outside.

Another man, a few years older than him,

named Digwa, attacked him.

Digwa used a knife to stab Henry.

Wounded him badly.

Henry fell to the ground, losing a lot of blood.

He urgently needed someone to save him.

In the UK, when something like this happens,

people call the police right away.

The police quickly arrived at the scene.

The police coming should have been life-saving.

But the problem appeared precisely here.

When the police arrived,

there were two people at the scene:

one was the gravely injured Henry.

The other was the attacker, Digwa.

Both were talking,

but what they said was completely opposite.

Digwa was cunning.

He got there first and lied to the police.

He claimed instead that he was the victim.

He also said that, because of his race,

he was being hated and attacked by the other person.

This was an utter, total lie.

But the lie was told fast, and sounded real.

In that moment, the police

actually believed the attacker first.

And so, the most absurd scene unfolded.

The police didn't go save the real victim first.

Instead, they took the gravely injured Henry,

treated him as a suspect,

and put handcuffs on him.

By now Henry was extremely weak.

Using his last strength, he said to the police:

'I can't breathe.

I can't breathe.' ”

In English this is 'I can't breathe.'

He was telling the police:

I'm about to be gone, please save me.

But that police officer

only coldly replied:

'I think you're fine.' ”

By the time the police finally came to their senses,

unlocked the cuffs and began first aid,

everything was already too late.

Henry was gone forever.

He was only eighteen.

Speaking of this, some of you may think of

George Floyd in America a few years ago.

The one who also cried 'I can't breathe',

and in the end died in police hands — a Black man.

Yes, it's precisely because of this sentence

that Henry's case sparked huge debate in the UK.

Some used the moment to say

the police are biased against white people.

Others said it's not like that at all.

This thing

even triggered some intense protests.

Today we won't take any side.

Because there's one point both sides agree on —

that is: that night,

the person who was truly calling for help wasn't believed.

Later, the truth, in court,

was reconstructed bit by bit.

The jury found

that the one who truly attacked and killed was Digwa.

He not only took a life,

he also, at the scene, lied to the police.

In the end, the court sentenced him to life imprisonment,

with at least twenty-one years in prison.

And the local police,

for their handling that night,

publicly apologized.

Now, there's also an independent investigation,

specifically looking into:

what exactly the police got wrong that night.

At the end of the show, let's think together.

The most piercing part of this thing

actually has nothing to do with skin color or political stance.

What pierces is a most basic question:

when two people stand before you,

one telling the truth, one telling a lie,

on what basis do you decide whom to believe?

Every one of us

could, in some instant,

become the one making the judgment.

And could also become the one

desperately telling the truth,

yet not being believed.

So finally, I want to ask you.

If one day,

someone before you says they're in pain, that they badly need help,

but the way they look makes you a little doubtful,

what would you do?

Would you choose to believe them first?

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