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The courtroom disclosure duty 场景学习单
本场重点:律师发现不利或更正性材料时立即保全,核对披露义务,通知当事人和法院,并避免以策略性延迟损害公正
01
理解
先读场景与人物目标,不逐词翻译。
02
遮挡复述
遮住中文,用英文复述关键意思。
03
迁移表达
把高价值表达改写到自己的情境。
语言观察
“A fact does not stop mattering because it weakens our side.” 事实不会因为削弱己方立场就失去重要性。
Read and notice
原创双语场景
INT. COUNTY COURTHOUSE — EARLY MORNING
内景 · 县法院 · 清晨
Defense counsel receives a laboratory correction that changes the meaning of an earlier report.
辩护律师收到一份实验室更正,改变了先前报告的含义。
ASSOCIATE
The prosecution has not asked again. We could wait and see whether they notice.
控方没有再次询问。我们可以等着看他们是否会发现。
COUNSEL
A fact does not stop mattering because it weakens our side.
事实不会因为削弱己方立场就失去重要性。
COUNSEL
Preserve the original and correction, identify the governing duty and notify the client before making a prompt disclosure.
保留原件和更正,确认适用义务,并在及时披露前通知当事人。
ASSOCIATE
I will document when we received it, what changed and exactly who receives the notice.
我会记录收到时间、变更内容以及通知的具体接收人。
The group returns to the opening concern—“The prosecution has not asked again. We could wait and see whether they notice.”—and compares it with the later response before closing the scene.
众人重新审视开场问题——“控方没有再次询问。我们可以等着看他们是否会发现。”——并在结束场景前把它与后续回应进行比较。
ASSOCIATE
Which part is a request, which part is permission, and what may be refused or withdrawn without losing an existing right?
哪一部分是请求,哪一部分是许可,又有哪些内容可以拒绝或撤回而不失去现有权利?
COUNSEL
Permission will name its scope, audience, duration, storage, withdrawal route, and the consequence of saying no.
许可会写明范围、受众、期限、保存方式、撤回渠道,以及拒绝会产生什么后果。
Two phrases remain visible on the shared note: “laboratory correction” and “the governing duty,” each linked to the exact line that gives it force in the discussion.
共用记录上保留两个表达:“laboratory correction”(实验室更正)与“the governing duty”(适用的法定义务),并分别连接到赋予其讨论力量的原句。
ASSOCIATE
An independent person will check that silence was not treated as agreement and that no benefit depends on continued permission.
由独立人员检查沉默是否被误当成同意,以及任何福利是否以持续许可为条件。
The longer passage separates relationship, request, permission, refusal, and repair instead of compressing them into one yes.
加长段落把关系、请求、许可、拒绝和补救分别展开,不再压缩成一个笼统的“同意”。
A second pass through “The courtroom disclosure duty” slows the exchange where “The prosecution has not asked again. We could wait and see whether they notice.” still leaves motive, consequence, or responsibility unstated.
第二轮细读“The courtroom disclosure duty”时,交流在“控方没有再次询问。我们可以等着看他们是否会发现。”仍未说明动机、后果或责任的位置慢下来。
COUNSEL
What information would change the decision, who benefits from agreement, and can refusal remain safe, private, and free of retaliation?
什么信息会改变决定,谁会从同意中受益,而拒绝是否仍能保持安全、私密且不受报复?
ASSOCIATE
The explanation will cover purpose, alternatives, foreseeable effects, data use, expiration, withdrawal, and the contact responsible for correction.
说明会覆盖目的、替代方案、可预见影响、数据用途、到期时间、撤回方式和负责纠正的联系人。
The speakers test how “laboratory correction” changes the force of “a clear chronology,” then restate the distinction without relying on either phrase.
说话者检验“laboratory correction”(实验室更正)如何改变“a clear chronology”(清晰时间线)的语气力度,然后不依赖这两个短语重新说明区别。
ASSOCIATE
A signature can document a decision, but it cannot repair missing information, hidden pressure, or an unusable withdrawal route.
签名可以记录决定,却无法弥补信息缺失、隐性压力或无法使用的撤回渠道。
COUNSEL
We will pause the request, provide the missing details in plain language, and ask again only after independent questions are possible.
我们会暂停请求,用清楚的语言补齐细节,并只在对方能够独立提问后再次询问。
They rehearse one careful version, one direct version, and one version for a listener who enters late, checking that “the governing duty” still leads to the same next step.
他们分别排练谨慎版、直接版和面向迟到听众的版本,检查“the governing duty”(适用的法定义务)是否仍然导向同一个下一步。
Before the scene closes, “laboratory correction” and “a clear chronology” are placed beside the unresolved pressure in “The courtroom disclosure duty,” giving the speakers one more round to challenge, concede, reframe, and hand off the decision.
场景结束前,“laboratory correction”(实验室更正)与“a clear chronology”(清晰时间线)被放回“The courtroom disclosure duty”尚未解决的压力旁,让说话者再完成一轮质疑、让步、重述与交接。
ASSOCIATE
If saying no changes access, status, safety, or the relationship, how can we claim the answer is voluntary, and what must change before asking again?
如果拒绝会改变机会、身份、安全或关系,我们凭什么说回答是自愿的,又必须先改变什么才能再次询问?
COUNSEL
I accept that an earlier yes may document one moment, but it does not cover a new audience, a longer duration, hidden pressure, or a changed purpose.
我承认先前的同意只能记录一个时刻,不能覆盖新的受众、更长期限、隐性压力或已经改变的目的。
ASSOCIATE
Then permission will be specific, informed, reversible, and separate from unrelated benefits, with silence treated as a reason to pause rather than agreement.
那么许可必须具体、知情、可撤回,并与无关利益分开;沉默应被视为暂停理由,而不是同意。
ASSOCIATE
I will pass on the approved scope, excluded uses, expiration, withdrawal route, and correction contact so no later participant has to guess what was allowed.
我会交接获准范围、排除用途、到期时间、撤回渠道和纠正联系人,让后来的参与者无需猜测哪些内容曾被允许。
The longer dialogue now leaves “The courtroom disclosure duty” with an acknowledged objection, a revised frame, a named owner, and a handoff that can be checked after the conversation ends.
更长的对话让“The courtroom disclosure duty”在结束时留下已被承认的异议、经过修订的框架、具名负责人,以及能在谈话结束后继续核验的交接。
The fuller scene treats consent as an informed, reversible process rather than a single line of approval.
更完整的场景把同意视为知情且可撤回的过程,而不是一句单独的批准。
The correction is filed with a clear chronology before the next hearing begins.
更正在下次庭审开始前连同清晰时间线一并提交。
Useful language
高价值表达
laboratory correction
/ˈlæbrətɔːri kəˈrekʃən/
实验室更正
对先前检验结果或表述的正式修订。
我的例句
the governing duty
/ðə ˈɡʌvərnɪŋ ˈduːti/
适用的法定义务
决定材料何时及如何披露的规则。
我的例句
a clear chronology
/ə klɪr krəˈnɑːlədʒi/
清晰时间线
记录接收、判断与披露的先后顺序。
我的例句
输出练习
1. 用 2 句英文概括场景中的沟通问题。
2. 选一个高价值表达,改写成你本周可能真正使用的句子。
3. 如果你是场景中的另一方,你会怎样回应?
我能说清场景目标
我能复述关键台词
我写了自己的例句