【读新闻学英语】母亲把婴儿扔进垃圾袋，还可能注射了海洛因...

A heroin-addicted mother may have injected her baby with the drug before dumping the child's corpse in a rubbish bag, police say.

警方称，一名吸食海洛因成瘾的母亲，把孩子的尸体扔进垃圾袋！并且扔进垃圾袋之前，可能还给孩子注射了毒品。

dump：倾倒；丢下；猛地放下
corpse：尸体

The tragic case occurred in the US state of New Mexico, with the infant's father calling police after he returned home from a trip and found his partner was no longer pregnant but would not tell him where the baby was.

这起悲剧发生在美国新墨西哥州，婴儿的父亲在旅行回家后，发现他的伴侣已不再怀有身孕，但没有告诉他孩子在哪里，父亲随后报警。

New Mexico：美国新墨西哥州

Police launched an investigation and visited the couple's trailer home.

警方展开调查，并检查了这对夫妇的房车。

trailer：拖车

During an interview, the woman repeatedly passed out with police saying in an affidavit that "her statements were inconsistent and not making logical sense".

在一次警察问询中，这名女子多次昏倒，警方在一份宣誓书中表示，“她的陈述前后矛盾，没有逻辑意义”。

affidavit：宣誓书；口供；书面证词
passed out：昏倒，失去知觉；分发

She claimed she had passed out from the pain of childbirth and found the child unresponsive.

她声称自己因分娩疼痛而昏倒，而且，她发现孩子当时没有反应。

unresponsive：反应迟钝的；无反应的

Police entered the trailer where officers "smelled the smell of death and began to look for the newborn baby". After a search they found the child's body inside a rubbish bag dumped next to the toilet.

警察进入房车，“闻到了尸体的味道，开始寻找新生儿”。经过搜查，他们发现孩子的尸体在一个垃圾袋里，垃圾袋被倾倒在厕所旁边。

The father told investigators that he was told the mother had injected the baby with the deadly drug in an effort to stave off withdrawal symptoms.

这位父亲告诉调查人员，母亲给婴儿注射了致命药物，以避免出现戒断症状。

in an effort to：企图（努力想）；试图要
stave off：避开；延缓
withdrawal symptoms：脱瘾症状；断除症状

An autopsy will be performed to determine the child's manner of death and police are waiting for those results before charges are laid.

警方将对这名婴儿进行尸检，以确定婴儿的死亡方式。警方正在等待尸检结果，然后才会提出指控。

autopsy：验尸；尸体解剖
lay a charge against sb：控告某人

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