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Diana Verdict 戴安娜案判决 (上)
The Final Chapter? 故事尾声？

沪江答题纸加载中……

Was Princess Diana murdered?

The verdict is no, according to an ______1______ held into the cause of her death over the last six months.

The big question was whether the deaths of Diana and her boyfriend Dodi Al Fayed in a ______2______ in 1997 had been accidental, or whether there was some kind of conspiracy to have them killed.

Dodi’s father Mohamed Al Fayed, owner of London’s world-famous department store Harrods, has insisted for the last decade that the pair were ______3______ by agents of the British state who did not want them to marry.

But his theories now look to have been ______4______. The court found that Princess Diana and her boyfriend were not murdered but ______5______ due to the "gross negligence" of her driver and the paparazzi. Her driver was drunk at the time of the crash and the paparazzi had been chasing their car.

以下为回复可见内容

1. inquest - 调查、审讯
2. fatal car crash- 致命的车祸
3. assassinated - 被暗杀的
4. blown out of the water - 不成立、落空
5. unlawfully killed - 非法杀害

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murdered - 被谋杀
verdict - 判决
inquest - 调查、审讯
cause of her death - 她的死因
fatal - 致命的
car crash - 车祸
accidental - 意外的
conspiracy - 阴谋
assassinated - 被暗杀的
agents - 间谍
blown out of the water - 不成立、落空
unlawfully killed - 非法杀害
gross negligence - 明显的疏忽、大意
paparazzi - 狗仔队

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Diana, Princess of Wales, was the first wife of Charles, Prince of Wales. Their sons, Princes William and Henry (Harry), are second and third in line to the thrones of the United Kingdom and fifteen other Commonwealth Realms.

A public figure from the announcement of her engagement to Prince Charles, Diana remained the focus of near-constant media scrutiny in the United Kingdom and around the world up to and during her marriage, and after her subsequent divorce. Her sudden death in a car accident was followed by a spontaneous and prolonged show of public mourning. Contemporary responses to Diana's life and legacy have been mixed but a popular fascination with the Princess endures. The long awaited Coroner's Inquest reported in April 2008 that Diana had been unlawfully killed by the driver and the following paparazzi.

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