On Wednesday, a court in New York began hearing a case accusing Huawei Technologies Co. of conspiracy to commit extortion.
周三,纽约开庭审理了针对华为技术有限公司的敲诈勒索共谋案。
Federal prosecutors allege that the Chinese technology company committed a range of offences, including stealing technology from American firms, abusing the US financial system, and helping Iran to spy on its own citizens.
联邦检察官指控这家中国科技公司犯有一系列罪行,包括窃取美国公司的技术、滥用美国金融体系以及协助伊朗监视本国公民。
Huawei is the world's largest supplier of wireless telecommunications network equipment; however, amid concerns that it may pose a security risk, it has been barred from selling equipment to US carriers.
华为是全球最大的无线电信网络设备供应商,然而,出于对其可能构成安全风险的担忧,华为被禁止向美国运营商出售设备。
Other Western allies, such as Canada and the United Kingdom, have likewise blacklisted Huawei.
加拿大、英国等其他西方盟友同样将华为列入黑名单。
However, defense attorney Brian Heberlig rejected these allegations, claiming that the prosecution was exploiting isolated anecdotes and the misconduct of a small number of individuals among Huawei's roughly 200,000 employees across 170 countries to portray the company and its three subsidiaries as a corrupt criminal enterprise.
然而,辩护律师布莱恩·赫伯利格驳斥了这些指控,称检方是在利用零星的轶事以及华为在全球170个国家约20万名员工中少数人的一些不当行为,来把该公司及其三家子公司描绘成一个腐败的犯罪企业。
The first witness called by the prosecution was Parham Bakhshti.
检方传唤的首位证人是帕勒姆·巴赫什提。
He grew up in Iran, later went to the United States to study, and became an American citizen in 2000.
他在伊朗长大,后赴美求学,并于2000年成为美国公民。
In 2003, Bakhshti moved back to Iran in order to be closer to his wife's family.
2003年,巴赫什提搬回伊朗,以便离妻子的家人更近。
He testified that he learned about Huawei in 2009 while working at a small but rapidly growing company that was bringing the internet to remote corners of Iran, and that he subsequently provided the U.S. government with confidential information about his dealings with Huawei.
他作证说,2009年他在一家规模虽小但发展迅速、正把互联网带到伊朗偏远角落的公司工作时了解到华为,此后便向美国政府提供了有关他与华为打交道的秘密信息。
In his opening statement, Haberlig told the jurors that they would see through what he called the prosecution's unreliable witnesses and would find that "the government's case simply does not hold up."
赫伯利格在开场陈述中向陪审员表示,他们将会识破他所称的检方不可靠证人,并会发现“政府的说法根本站不住脚”。
He also said they would find that some of the testimony against the company was motivated by "old grudges."
他还说,他们会发现,针对该公司的一些证词是出于“旧怨”。
He mocked the prosecution's intention to present evidence in court to prove that a Huawei employee had photographed a competitor company's products at a trade show event.
他嘲讽检方打算在法庭上出示证据,以证明一名华为员工在贸易展活动上拍摄了竞争对手公司的产品。
He said the government had failed to mention that Huawei promptly dismissed the employee for this "foolish act."
他说,政府没有提到,华为因这一“愚蠢行为”迅速解雇了该员工。
Herbellig pointed out that this does not constitute evidence of "company-wide collusion."
赫伯利格指出,这并不能构成“全公司共谋”的证据。
He attributed Huawei's remarkable growth to its success in engineering, investment, innovation, and competition.
他将华为令人瞩目的增长归功于其在工程、投资、创新与竞争领域所取得的成功。
Huawei not only manufactures phones and other consumer electronics, but it has now been cut off from its other business lines.
华为不仅生产手机及其他消费电子产品,如今却已被切断与其他业务线的联系。
Recently, as the artificial intelligence boom continues to drive up demand for microprocessors, Huawei has expanded its business reach into chip manufacturing.
近来,随着人工智能热潮持续推高对微处理器的需求,华为已将业务版图拓展至芯片制造领域。
During President Donald Trump's first term, his administration raised national security concerns about Huawei and began lobbying Western allies to exclude the company's products from their next-generation high-speed wireless networks.
在唐纳德·特朗普总统的第一个任期内,其政府提出了对华为的国家安全担忧,并开始游说西方盟友不要将华为产品纳入其下一代高速无线网络。
The United States announced these criminal charges in early 2019 and has since broadened their scope.
美国于2019年初宣布了这些刑事指控,此后又扩大了指控范围。