2006年，只要你不曾與互聯網隔絕，一定會知曉這條新聞——話題女王希爾頓為“漢堡”惹火燒身 酒后駕車遭警察起訴。不過，自始至終，這位希爾頓酒店女繼承都認為自己“清白”。雖然她確實未通過血液酒精檢測，但希爾頓始終認為是警察故意把事情搞大了。新年伊始，洛杉磯高級法院收到希爾頓律師呈遞的“無罪申訴狀”。據悉，法庭在審理此案前將于1月23日舉行一場聽證會。如果未來法院定“酒駕罪名”成立，社交名媛希爾頓有可能面臨最高六個月的有期徒刑以及一千美元罰款。 相關鏈接:“酒后駕車”的相關說法

Paris Hilton, arrives at the private party thrown by her parents Rick and Kathy Hilton to celebrate her new fragrance, in this June 14, 2006 file photo in New York. Her attorney entered not guilty pleas in Los Angeles on her behalf Tuesday, Jan. 9, 2007, to charges of misdemeanor driving under the influence. (AP Photo/Dima Gavrysh, File)

Celebrity heiress Paris Hilton pleaded innocent todrunk drivingon Tuesday after she was arrested in September in Hollywood while she was hurrying to get a late-night burger.

Hilton did not attend the brief hearing in Los Angeles Superior Court at which her attorney, Shawn Chapman Holley,entered the not guilty plea.

The 25-year-old heir to the Hilton hotel fortune was not required to be in court because the charges,driving under the influence of alcoholand driving with a blood alcohol level over California's legal limit of .08, are misdemeanors.

Superior Court Judge Michael Sauer set a pretrial hearing for Jan. 23 and said it would go to trial within a month of that date.

The socialite and reality TV star faces a maximum penalty of six months in jail and a $1,000 fine if she is convicted, though first-time offenders are often givenprobationand required to attend alcohol counseling.

Hilton was stopped by police in Hollywood for driving erratically. She failed a sobriety test and was taken into custody. She later told KIIS-FM radio that she had been to a fund-raising party after a long day shooting a music video and had just one drink.

"I had one margarita (and) was starving because I had not eaten all day. Maybe I was speeding a little bit and I got pulled over," Hilton said.

"I was just really hungry and I wanted to have an In-N-Out Burger," she said, referring to the popular, California-based fast-food chain.

Hilton's spokesman has said that her blood alcohol level registered "the absolute minimum amount of alcohol in your system that would justify an arrest."

（Agencies）

Vocabulary:

drunk driving：酒后駕車

enter the not guilty plea：enter a plea of innocence（遞呈無罪申訴狀）

driving under the influence of alcohol：DUI（酒后駕車）

probation：緩刑

（英語點津陳蓓編輯）