V.T.枪击案凶手“遗物”曝光 再度震惊全球

4月18日，美国全国广播公司公布了V.T.枪击案嫌疑人赵承熙寄来的包裹内容，其中包括照片、文字和视频资料。在43张照片中，赵承熙时而手持武器，时而表情凶狠，时而又面带笑容。在NBC公开的视频中，23岁的赵承熙大谈其对富人的憎恨，抨击他们的“享乐主义”。赵承熙的视频和照片揭开了其杀人动机的谜底，但却对美国社会造成了巨大的视觉和心理冲击。

Two days after the worst killing¹ spree in modern US history, the shooter again assaulted Virginia Tech - though this time it was in videos and photographs. In the videos, Cho Seung-hui was asgarrulousas he was silent in his normal life.

NBC played another round yesterday of the videos Cho mailed to the network in the middle of the killings² of 32 people at Virginia Tech. As in the videos released on Wednesday, he repeats himself, again and again, saying the killings could have been prevented and that he was carrying out the shootings for "the weak and defenseless."

"This is it," he says in one video. "This is where it all ends. End of the road. What a life it was. Some life."

He delivered a snarling³, profanity-lacedtiradeabout rich "brats⁴" and their "hedonisticneeds."

"Today" show Matt Lauer said the decision to air the information "was not taken lightly."

Some victims' relatives cancelled their plans to speak with the network "because they were very upset with NBC for airing the images," co-host Meredith Viera said.

NBC said the package contained a rambling⁵ and often incoherent 23-page written statement, 28 video clips and 43 photos. Several of the photos showed him aiming handguns at the camera.

The package arrived at NBC headquarters in New York on Tuesday and was opened on Wednesday. It bore a Postal⁶ Service time stamp showing that it had been mailed at a Blacksburg post office at 9:01 am on Monday, about an hour and 45 minutes after Cho first opened fire.

The package helped explain one of the biggest mysteries about the massacre⁷: where the gunman was and what he did during that two-hour window between the first burst of gunfire, at a high-rise dorm, and the second attack, at a classroom building.

"Your Mercedes wasn't enough, you brats," says Cho, a South Korean immigrant whose parents work at a dry cleaners in suburban⁸ Washington. "Your golden necklaces weren't enough, you snobs⁹. Your trust funds wasn't enough. Your vodka and cognac wasn't enough. All your debaucheries weren't enough. Those weren't enough to fulfill¹⁰ your hedonistic needs. You had everything."

Some of the pictures in the video package show him smiling; others show him frowning and snarling. Some depict¹¹ himbrandishingtwo weapons at a time, one in each hand. He wears a khaki-colored military-style vest, fingerless gloves, a black T-shirt, a backpack and a backward, black baseball cap. Another photo shows him swinging a hammer two-fisted. Another shows an angry-looking Cho holding a gun to his temple.

He refers to "martyrs¹² like Eric and Dylan" a reference to the teenage killers¹³ in the Columbine High School massacre in Colorado.

NBC News President Steve Capus said the package arrived in Tuesday afternoon's mail, but was not opened until Wednesday morning. It was sent by overnight delivery and apparently¹⁴ had the wrong postal code, NBC said.

Cho repeatedly suggests he was picked on or otherwise hurt.

"You have vandalized my heart, raped¹⁵ my soul and torched my conscience," he says, apparently reading from his manifesto¹⁶. "You thought it was one pathetic boy's life you were extinguishing. Thanks to you, I die like Jesus Christ, to inspire generations of the weak and the defenseless people."

Vocabulary:    

garrulous:冗长絮叨的

tirade：言辞激烈的长篇演说

hedonistic needs：享乐需求

brandish：威胁性地挥动或挥舞（武器）