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進入《中英對照讀新聞》Amish men jailed for not displaying buggy safety signs 阿米許教派男子因未懸掛馬車安全標誌而遭監禁
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Eight members of a traditional Amish sect were behind bars on Tuesday after refusing to pay fines for failure to display orange-red safety triangles on their horse-drawn buggies.
一個傳統的阿米許教派的8名成員，在拒絕支付未能在其小馬車懸掛橘紅色三角安全標誌的罰金後，週二淪為階下囚。
The eight were being held in the Graves County Jail, serving sentences ranging between three and 10 days for failing to pay the fines on religious grounds.
這8人被關在葛瑞夫斯郡監獄，他們基於宗教理由拒絕繳罰金的刑期從3到10天不等。
Graves District Judge Deborah Hawkins ordered the men jailed Monday in Mayfield, about 200 miles from Louisville in western Kentucky. The defendants contend that paying the fines would amount to complying with a law that violates their religious restrictions against wearing or displaying bright colors or relying upon man-made symbols for their safety.
葛瑞夫斯地方法官黛博拉‧霍金斯週一在肯塔基州西部、距離路易斯維爾約200英里的梅菲爾德，下令把這些人被關入大牢。被告抗辯說，支付罰金等於是遵守一項違反他們的宗教規定的法律，該規定不准教友穿戴或展示明亮顏色，或仰賴人造標誌維護安全。
The Kentucky Court of Appeals denied an appeal of the men’s misdemeanor convictions in June. The case has been appealed to the state Supreme Court, which has not ruled on whether it will hear the case.
這些人在6月便被以輕罪定罪，肯塔基州上訴法庭稍後駁回他們的上訴。此案目前已上訴該州最高法院，但最高法院尚未裁定是否受理。
“We’re certainly disappointed that the judge chose to go forward,” the men’s lawyer, William Sharp, said in an interview Tuesday. “… We thought it was unnecessary to do so until the cases had been conclusively resolved one way or another by the Kentucky Supreme Court.”
「我們當然非常失望法官決定逕行（宣判），」這些人的律師威廉‧夏普週二受訪時表示。「…我們認為，直到這些案件以某種方式在肯塔基州最高法院解決（以前），沒有必要這樣做（判刑）。」
新聞辭典
behind bars：慣用語，坐牢。
amount to something：慣用語，相當於。例句： Your comments amount to treason.（你的評論形同叛國。）
one way or another：慣用語，無論如何，不管用什麼方法。例句：One way or another, I’m going to finish this job by next week.（無論如何，我下週以前要做完這項工作。）
