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an ohio state university janitor who was about to lose his job walked into a maintenance building for his early morning shift tuesday and shot two supervisors, killing one of them and fatally shooting himself. no students were hurt.

俄亥俄州立大學的一名即將丟差的工友，週二清晨準備上早班時，走進一棟維修大樓槍殺了兩名主管，導致其中一人死亡，槍手本人也自戕身亡。（事件中）並無學生受傷。

nathaniel brown, 51, arrived for work at the nation’s largest university dressed in dark clothing, a hooded sweat shirt and a backpack. he then opened fire in an office suite using two handguns, campus police chief paul denton said.

51歲的納森尼爾．布朗抵達這所全美最大的大學上班時，穿著深色衣服、有兜帽的圓領厚棉運動衫並背著背包。他接著以兩把手槍朝一間辦公室開火，校警警長保羅．丹頓說。

the shooting was reported at 3：30 a.m. tuesday. police tactical units surrounded the building and found brown with a self-inflicted gunshot wound in a garage bay, denton said. he was pronounced dead at a campus hospital several hours later.

（警方在）週二凌晨3時30分接獲報案，警方霹靂小組包圍該建築，並在一處停車隔間發現被自己開槍打傷的布朗。丹頓說，布朗在數小時後於校園醫院被宣告死亡。

classes went on as scheduled tuesday. more than 55,000 students attend the main campus in columbus. the maintenance building is next to a power plant and across the street from ohio stadium, home to the university’s football team.

週二的課程一如表定如期進行。位於哥倫布市的主校區有超過5萬5000名學生。維修大樓的隔壁是一座發電廠，並與該校的美式足球隊的主場「俄亥俄體育場」隔街對望。

新聞辭典

maintenance：名詞，維修；保持。動詞，maintain。例句：maintaining good relationships with your colleagues will also help to keep your job.（跟同事們搞好關係也有助於保住飯碗。）

sweatshirt：名詞，一種長袖、無領、剪裁寬大的套頭厚棉運動衫，通常有毛襯裡，切忌根據字面意義將sweatshirt翻譯成「汗衫」。

inflict：動詞，予以…；使遭受…。