4月18日，美國全國廣播公司公布了V.T.槍擊案嫌疑人趙承熙寄來的包裹內容，其中包括照片、文字和視頻資料。在43張照片中，趙承熙時而手持武器，時而表情兇狠，時而又面帶笑容。在NBC公開的視頻中，23歲的趙承熙大談其對富人的憎恨，抨擊他們的“享樂主義”。趙承熙的視頻和照片揭開了其殺人動機的謎底，但卻對美國社會造成了巨大的視覺和心理沖擊。

Two days after the worst killing 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 killings 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 snarling, profanity-lacedtiradeabout rich "brats" 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 rambling 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 Postal 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 massacre: 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 suburban Washington. "Your golden necklaces weren't enough, you snobs. Your trust funds wasn't enough. Your vodka and cognac wasn't enough. All your debaucheries weren't enough. Those weren't enough to fulfill your hedonistic needs. You had everything."

Some of the pictures in the video package show him smiling; others show him frowning and snarling. Some depict 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 "martyrs like Eric and Dylan" a reference to the teenage killers 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 apparently had the wrong postal code, NBC said.

Cho repeatedly suggests he was picked on or otherwise hurt.

"You have vandalized my heart, raped my soul and torched my conscience," he says, apparently reading from his manifesto. "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."

（Agencies） 

Vocabulary:    

garrulous:冗長絮叨的

tirade：言辭激烈的長篇演說

hedonistic needs：享樂需求

brandish：威脅性地揮動或揮舞（武器）

（英語點津陳蓓編輯）