waterboarding

The president's most important departure from his predecessor's approach was to renounce waterboarding and other brutal techniques used after 9/ 11, which most reasonable people regard as torture.

相对于前任的做法，奥巴马总统做出的最重大改变是，废除了911事件后启用的水刑等酷刑。大多数温和的人都将之视为虐俘行为。

Which I have never seen waterboarding, you hear that term all the time.

我从来没有见到过水刑你只是老听见这个词语

Memos prepared by the justice department during the Bush administration argued that techniques such as waterboarding were legal, allowing the CIA to claim it was just following guidelines.

司法部在布什主政时期准备的备忘录称，水刑等手段是合法的，这使得CIA能够宣称它只不过是在遵循指南。

Brutal methods of interrogation such as waterboarding are, in the ordinary meaning of the word, torture.

按酷刑这个词的普通含意理解，水刑等残忍的审讯方法属于酷刑。

The updated dictionaries define "waterboarding" as "an interrogation technique in which water is forced into a detainee's mouth and nose so as to induce the sensation of drowning".

新字典对“waterboarding”的解释是：一种审讯方式，受审者的口鼻被强行灌水，从而产生溺亡的感觉。

Early excesses in the war on terrorism, such as waterboarding, warrantless wiretapping and" extraordinary renditions", have been stopped or rolled back.

之前对战争恐怖行为的惩罚，如反恐水刑，窃听装置和“特别引渡”，已被停止或取消。

Once, pretty much everywhere, beating your wife and children was regarded as a father's duty, homosexuality was a hanging offense, and waterboarding was approved.

以前，几乎在任何地方，打老婆打孩子都是天经地义之事，同性恋也是滔天大罪，而水刑也不会招致异议。

You know, I guess one, I've never been there for natural waterboarding.

你知道我觉得没有人我从来没有经历过正常的水刑

One of the few drawbacks of residing in the US is the annual encounter with Form 1040, which is to personal finance as waterboarding is to asking some questions.

居住在美国的几个不利之处之一就是每年都要面对1040表。这份表格对个人财务的意义，就好比用水刑来逼供。

Nashiri's attorneys argue he should not be tried because he was subject to the near-drowning technique called waterboarding and mock executions.

纳希里的律师尤金.菲德尔争辩说，纳希里不应该受到审判因为他曾受到致人于死亡边缘的残酷水刑的折磨。

Will you really carry out your threat to subject four-year-old Billy to waterboarding?

你真的会让4岁的比利遭受酷刑吗？

But US law on waterboarding is not as clear as it should be.

但美国关于水刑的法律并没有人们想象的那样清晰。

Americans are already quarrelling about whether it was waterboarding, now banned, that produced the tip that led the CIA to Abbottabad.

当下，美国人正在热议，水刑是否真的取消了，中央情报局可能因为阿伯塔巴德而重新使用。

Their methods included confinement, throwing subjects into walls, sleep deprivation, and-perhaps most notoriously-waterboarding.

他们的方法包括监禁，把犯人往墙上摔，剥夺睡眠，也许最恶名昭著的是水刑。

It has reportedly agreed to stop waterboarding people. But it is unclear which subtleties it still plans to employ.

据悉，中央情报局已同意不再施“水板刑”*，但仍不确定它将采取什么奇术。