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Terror struck along West Side Highway just blocks from Manhattan's towering World Trade Center
城西高速公路发生恐怖袭击，事发地距离曼哈顿世贸中心仅有几个街区，
when a man drove a rented truck onto a busy bike path, pummeling through pedestrains, cyclists and into a high school bus.
一名男子驾驶一辆租用卡车驶上自行车道，冲撞行人和骑车人，并与一辆高中校车相撞。
This was an act of terror and a particularly cowardly act of terror aimed at innocent civilians.
这是一起恐怖袭击，是针对无辜平民的一次怯懦的恐袭行动。
Authorities have identified the suspect as Sayfullo Saipov, a 29-year-old, Uzbek national.
嫌犯为29岁的赛普夫，乌兹别克斯坦人。
He remains in police custody at a New York hospital.
赛普夫目前在纽约的一家医院，警方已将他拘留。
The driver of the truck, a 29 year-old male exited the vehicle, brandishing two handguns.
29岁的卡车驾驶员离开卡车，手中挥舞着两把手枪。
A uniformed police officer assigned to the 1st Precinct confronted the subject and shot him in the abdomen.
在第一区巡逻的警察发现了疑犯，并击中其腹部。
For some witnesses, the chaos was reminiscent of images of deadly attacks from across Europe.
对于一些目击者来说，混乱让人联想起欧洲各地的恐袭画面。
It always seems really distant, but then when it's right next to you,
我们总认为那很遥远，但当它就发生在你身边的时候。
obviously, it's really shocking and disturbing and you don't want it to happen to anybody.
你会感到震惊和不安，你不希望任何人遭受这样的苦难。
Others were left in disbelief.
其他人还不相信这是真的。
College student Jake Saunders who barely missed the train at a crucial moment considers himself lucky.
大学生杰克·桑德斯在最后关头没能赶上那趟列车，他认为自己很幸运。
If I made that train, I would be like right where the shooting is like right there, cause that was my destination where the shooting was.
如果我上了那趟列车，我就会经历这起事件，因为事发地就是我要下车的那站。
The incident took place as parents readied their children to visit neighbors and receive candy treats as part of the annual Halloween celebration.
恐怖袭击发生时，一些家长正准备带着孩子走亲访友，讨要糖果，庆祝一年一度的万圣节。
Kids are you know trick-or-treating and bomb sniffers in the building. Kids have become way too accustomed to this.
孩子们一边在楼上索要糖果，警方一边在搜寻炸弹，孩子们对这种事都习以为常了。
But parents across the city insisted the incident would not stand in the way of their evening plans with the kids.
但家长表示这起事件绝对不会影响他们晚上的计划。
The cowards that have made this terrorist act, just really cannot stop our lives. We cannot let them take over our lives.
这些发动恐怖袭击的懦夫，我们不会因为他们而停止前进的脚步，我们不能让他们影响我们。
And in spite of all the mixed feelings and the sadness and the fear you know where everything has to go on
尽管五味杂陈交织，我们既悲痛又恐惧，但一切还都要继续，
and if we stop, then they won and we can't let that happen.
如果我们不再继续向前，那么他们就得逞了，我们不能让这种事发生。
Ramone Taylor VOA News New York.
美国之音，莱蒙·泰勒在纽约报道。
