The most controversial guideline refers to waterboarding, the technique where prisoners are made to feel as though they are drowning by having water poured over a cloth across their face.

最有争议的一条准则是关于水刑的，该技术通过把水倒在囚犯脸上所盖的布上，让其感到似乎正在溺水。

Though America no longer subjects suspected terrorists to waterboarding, Guantánamo is still open, an emblem of everything America is supposed not to stand for.

虽然美国已经不再对恐怖嫌疑犯实施水刑，然而关塔那摩监狱却仍然在运作，它的存在，与美国应该主张的所有一切恰恰相反。

Though America no longer subjects suspected terrorists to waterboarding, Guantanamo is still open, an emblem of everything America is supposed not to stand for.

虽然美国已经没有对恐怖分子嫌疑人进行水刑之类的。 关塔那摩监狱仍然在运作，它本身的存在，就刚好与美国主张的一切相反。

Thousands of documented confessions found in the prison archives show he was the man who made prisoners talk by using means such as electrocution, waterboarding, merciless beatings and mutilations.

在监狱档案中发现的数以千计的招供文件显示，他就是那个用包括电刑、水刑、毫不留情的殴打和致残等手段使犯人开口的人。