The Digital Dead Sea Scrolls 提供的英文译文，不同于常见的任何英文译本，它是Jewish Publication Society在1917翻译并通过 the American Israeli Cooperative Enterprise 印行的，是犹太教的旧约《圣经》版本，简称JPS。换句话说，The Digital Dead Sea Scrolls 的英文译文并非为《死海古卷》新译的，为便于比较，网站专门提供了一段翻译对照，使用的是加拿大三一大学Peter Flint的《死海古卷》译文。
自从《死海古卷》发现以来，有很多学者致力于它的翻译工作，其中Theodore H. Gaster的 The Dead Sea Scriptures，已经由王神荫翻译成中文《死海古卷》，由商务印书馆出版。此外，还有两个重要的版本：
BEIJING — For a nation not yet inured to lurid and senseless crime, a report that a former civil servant in central China kept six women enslaved in an underground** bunker** — and that he killed two of them — was shocking enough.
But perhaps almost as disturbing, at least to some readers, was that the journalist who exposed the crime more than two weeks after the suspect’s arrest was detained by security agents who accused him of revealing state secrets.
After his release from questioning on Thursday, the reporter, Ji Xuguang, wrote an article that accused the authorities of trying to keep the public in the dark about a** heinous** crime that unfolded less than two miles from the city’s public security bureau.
“I was only thinking about how to make my story as accurate as possible and to satisfy the public’s right to know, but I soon discovered that I failed to address the most important issue — face,” wrote Mr. Ji, a reporter for Southern Metropolis Daily, one of the country’s most aggressively independent publications. “Before the truth becomes a state secret, the public and myself need answers.”
Still, much of the national media on Friday were mesmerized by the horrifying details of the case, which took place in the city of Luoyang, in Henan Province.
According to Mr. Ji’s account, the suspect, Li Hao, 34, kidnapped the women, ages 16 to 24, from the karaoke parlors where they worked and imprisoned them in a 215-square-foot dungeon he dug beneath a rented basement space. Over the course of two years, Mr. Li repeatedly forced the women to have sex with him, Mr. Ji said.
According to a police official who provided details to Mr. Ji, the suspect kept his captives perpetually starved so they would have little energy for escape, but he also gave them two computers on which they could “kill time” by watching movies and playing games. Mr. Li, who is married with an infant son, lived elsewhere in the city.
Mr. Li’s arrest came on Sept. 6, when one of the women escaped and found her way to the police.
Mr. Ji said the rescued women were still in police custody on suspicion that they had a hand in the murders of the two women.
In his posting on Friday, Mr. Ji said he stumbled upon the story this week after spending a few days in Luoyang to investigate the murder of a local television reporter. In his follow-up article, he said his questioners deemed the case a state secret because, he later learned, they feared that its revelation might tarnish Luoyang’s quest to become a “Civilized City” as part of a national competition.
Mia Li contributed research.
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inure
1.1 trans. To bring (a person, etc.) by use, habit, or continual exercise to a certain condition or state of mind, to the endurance of a certain condition, to the following of a certain kind of life, etc.; to accustom, habituate.
**lurid **
a : causing horror or revulsion : gruesome
b : melodramatic, sensational; also : shocking
bunker
c.4.c A military dug-out; a reinforced concrete shelter.
**heinous **
[a. F. haineux, in OF. haïnos, haïneus (12th c. in Hatz.-Darm.), f. haine hatred, f. ha-ïr to hate.]
1.1 Hateful, odious; highly criminal or wicked; infamous, atrocious: chiefly characterizing offences, crimes, sins, and those who commit them.
mesmerize
v. 施以催眠术, 迷住, 迷惑
parlor
a.B.I.2.a In a mansion, dwelling-house, town-hall, etc., orig. A smaller room apart from the great hall, for private conversation or conference (e.g. a banker’s parlour, the Mayor’s Parlour in a town-hall). Hence, in a private house, the ordinary sitting-room of the family, which, when more spacious and handsomely furnished, is usually called the drawing-room. Formerly often simply = ‘room’ or ‘chamber’, sometimes a bedchamber.
dungeon
2.2 A strong close cell; a dark subterranean place of confinement; a deep dark vault.
▸ anger management n. orig. U.S. control of one’s anger, esp. when the emotion is frequently felt and is likely to result in violent behaviour; freq. attrib., esp. designating a course, support group, etc., which helps achieve this control.
élite:
精英这个词来自法语，是“挑选”“选中”的意思。
[F. élite (in OFr. eslite, elite; see prec.) selection, choice; in mod. use concr. that which is chosen:—med.L. ēlecta choice, f. L. ēligĕre: see elect v.]
