Richard Sonnenfeldt, chief interpreter at Nuremberg, died on October 9th, aged 86.

“纽伦堡审判”的首席译员理查德·索南费尔特于10月9日逝世，享年86岁。

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Teenage slang, said Mr Sonnenfeldt firmly, "could hardly be the vocabulary word of an amnesiac."

索南费尔特先生坚决表示，“失忆症患者绝不可能还记得”少年俚语。

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Mr Sonnenfeldt was contemptuous of other interpreters at Nuremberg who, through a thick lard of Swabian consonants or Polish syntax, could fuddle questioner and questioned alike.

他很看不起纽伦堡其他的翻译，要么满嘴夹杂着斯瓦比亚的厚重辅音，要么是一口波兰式英语，会让审讯者和被审讯者同样感到迷糊。

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Besides those mentioned in the text, the author would like to thank: Paul Adamson, Andrew Belfer, Steve Braverman, Dick Costolo, Clive Crook, Sulaiman al-Hattlan, Mazen Hayek, Kathrin Hille, Jonathan Hova, Ronald Howes, Mishal Kanoo, Jonathan Kempner, Glenn Hubbard, Andrew Likierman, Iyad Males, Ed Merchant, Arif Naqvi, Ahmed Nassef, Sooud al-Qassemi, Jesse Scott, Michael Sonnenfeldt, Miles Varn, Evan Williams, Tarik Youssef, and several others who must remain nameless.

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