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Detective who cracked Pearl case to probe Bhutto killing
Wednesday January 9, 03:31 PM
The Indian Express
The Pakistani detective, who cracked the killing of Wall Street Journal
reporter Daniel Pearl five years ago, has joined the team probing the
assassination of former premier Benazir Bhutto.
Zubair Mahmood of the Federal Investigation Agency in the port city of
Karachi has been deputed to join the Pakistani team working with investigators
from Britain's Scotland Yard to probe the assassination.
在调查贝•布托遇刺案的同时,2008年元旦,一名美国外交官在苏丹首都喀土穆街头遭枪击后不治身亡。随后,美国国务院宣布,美国外交安全人员和美国联邦调查局组成一个联合小组,前往苏丹调查这一事件。西方媒体对此进行了报道,其中一则报道如下:
FBI agents arrive in Sudan to probe US diplomat's killing
Fri Jan 4, 2008
KHARTOUM (AFP) - FBI and other US investigators have arrived in the
Sudanese capital to probe the killing of a US diplomat in a drive-by shooting on
New Year's Day, officials said Friday.
美国调查人员抵达苏丹之后,他们对谁是这起袭击事件的幕后指使展开了调查,相关新闻报道是这么说的:
U.S. agents probe Sudan attack claim
By Andrew Heavens
Fri Jan 5, 2008
KHARTOUM (Reuters) - U.S. security agents are investigating reports that a
previously unknown militant group was behind the killing of a U.S. aid officer
and his Sudanese driver in Khartoum, an embassy official said on Saturday.
在上述新闻发生的同时,联合国对刚果(金)的人权问题调查也引起了媒体的关注,有关媒体刊登了以下一篇报道:
UN rights investigators probe Congo
By EDDY ISANGO, Associated Press Writer
Fri Jan 5, 2008
GOMA, Congo - Congolese government forces summarily executed civilians and
members of a politician's private militia and used excessive force during
clashes with the militia last year, according to a preliminary report by U.N.
human rights investigators.
The investigators had probed March clashes in Kinshasa, Congo's capital,
between Congolese forces and security guards of Jean-Pierre Bemba, a former
warlord who was runner-up in 2006 presidential elections.
在其他新闻报道中,probe的使用也相当普遍,比如:
Report: Feds probe Internet suicide
AP via Yahoo! News – Jan. 9, 29 minutes ago
A federal grand jury has issued a subpoena to MySpace.com in a probe
stemming from the suicide of a Missouri teenager who received cruel messages on
the networking site that turned out to be a hoax, a newspaper reported.
FBI to probe Sikh brothers' murder in California
IANS via Yahoo! India News - Jan 08 10:45 PM
New York, Jan 9 (IANS) Police have sought the help of FBI's hate-crime
investigators to probe the December killing of two Sikh brothers who ran a
restaurant in California.
从上述新闻报道可以看出,probe很有新闻缘,西方媒体在表达“调查”这一意思的时候,他们首先想到的就是probe,而不是investigate。当然,作为一个使用更加普遍的单词,investigate用在上述新闻报道中也并无不妥,只是似乎可以这么说,probe是新闻媒体在表达“调查”这一意思时候的首选单词,其原因可能在于新闻英语喜欢使用音节少的单词,而
investigate是一个使用范围很广的普通词汇。不过,在表示“调查人员”这一意思的时候,新闻媒体只使用investigator,而从未见过使用prober这一单词。
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