美国有线新闻 CNN 2013-01-28

 Today is Tuesday, January, 22nd, 2013. Another day of guns in the headlines. A lot of people think that when you go to a gun show, all you're going to see is mouth breathing, camo-wearing, red-necked, fat, old, white guys driving pickup¹ trucks and that's not ture.

A day to learn why iphones are such a popular target foresees. It's never something that cross my mind that somebody found it and didn't turn it in. And the day scientists found a new way to study the brains of football players.

"The only way you can specifically know that the protein existed in a brain was an autopsy² unfortunately."

I'm Barbara Hall and this is CNN radio news day.

We begin with the shooting at a community college in Texas just north of Huston. Officials say at least three people were hurt, two students and the shooter, after an argument, apparently³ gun out of hand. A fourth person suffered a heart attack. As of this afternoon, the injured shooter was in custody⁴, another was still on the lose. Witnesses told CNN affiliates⁵ KPRC and KTRK, the scene was chaotic⁶.

"I saw three people, just, you know, arguing and then but I didn't pay attention, I thought they were just, you know, playing around. And immediate⁷ after I passed by the library I started, you know, listening to all the shoooting and when I look back, I saw, just, people running towards me.

A student ran into the bookstore, screaming there was someone with a gun, and we didn't really take it seriously, but she was crying and kind of stumbling all over herself when the, I guess the owner and the runner of the bookstore lock the doors and told her to buy a backup, we started taking it seriously and everybody kind of got bad.

You won't believe how scary it is to actually be here, and he is right outside your door, we don't know if he came inside the building or not, our building, this is very scary.

Today's event is the latest in a string of shootings and will most certainly add to the debate over gun control. Last month, killing⁸ of 26 people at Sandy Hook Elementary in Newtown Connecticut, led Senator Dinne Feinstein to call for a new federal ban on assault weapon. The California Democrat⁹ promised to introduce a bill in the senate this month and she says a similar bill will also be proposed in the House. Some states are waiting on Washington. New York and Marryland have already taken steps at gun control, but those two states are heavily Democratic. Gun rights are necessarily a partisan¹⁰ issue, but gun restrictions¹¹ are a tough sell in states controlled by Republicans legislatures. Virginia is one example, as CNN's Libby Lewis reports.

Yesterday was a big day, not only in Washington where inauguration¹² festivities were happening. But in Virginia, for a completely different reason.

It's the legislature's annual lobbying day for Virginian, it's like an open house for citizens who want to share their views with lawmakers. Lobbying day, a month after Newtown has brought out Virginians who don't want gun restrictions, and it's brought out some who do. By kind of gentleman and gray man, the gun rights folks have the morning to lobby. The afternoon, guys of Virginia who want to see background checks on sales at gun shows, another kind of restrictions on guns.

"And we're going to see if I can go through." Peter Matt is here this morning. It's his third time here.

"I've been pro-gun since about 2003. I'm a libertarian, I'm a libertarian bad boy hate one who think that it will make you pro-gun. It didn't necessarily, I grew up in anti-gun family in anti-gun northern New Jersey¹³. I was scared of gun for a long time."

Now he has five of his own, he also has a master degree in international relations and work history in Florida investigation¹⁴ and data analysis. He hangs out with his friends sometimes at vegetarian¹⁵ restaurants. Usually wearing one of his Glocks on his belt. There are some signs of diversity in the gun rights crowd, there is a young interracial couple in their 20s, but the college grades here to lobby for guns. There are number of women, last week at a planning meeting of the Virginia citizens defense¹⁶ league. There was a guy in a business suit, a state department employee and an intelligence analyst¹⁷ in a videographer. Bruce Jackson is on the board of directors for the Virginian citizens defense league, its motto is defending your right to defend your family.

1 pickup   

n.拾起，获得

参考例句：

• I would love to trade this car for a pickup truck.我愿意用这辆汽车换一辆小型轻便卡车。||The luck guy is a choice pickup for the girls.那位幸运的男孩是女孩子们想勾搭上的人。

2 autopsy   

n.尸体解剖；尸检

参考例句：

• They're carrying out an autopsy on the victim.他们正在给受害者验尸。
• A hemorrhagic gut was the predominant lesion at autopsy.尸检的主要发现是肠出血。

3 apparently   

adv.显然地；表面上，似乎

参考例句：

• An apparently blind alley leads suddenly into an open space.山穷水尽，豁然开朗。
• He was apparently much surprised at the news.他对那个消息显然感到十分惊异。

4 custody   

n.监护，照看，羁押，拘留

参考例句：

• He spent a week in custody on remand awaiting sentence.等候判决期间他被还押候审一个星期。
• He was taken into custody immediately after the robbery.抢劫案发生后，他立即被押了起来。

5 affiliates   

附属企业( affiliate的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• She affiliates with an academic society. 她是某学术团体的成员。
• For example, these security affiliates participated in the floating of 19,000,000,000 of issues in 1927. 例如，这些证券发行机构在1927年的流通证券中，就提供了一百九十亿美元的证券。

6 chaotic   

adj.混沌的，一片混乱的，一团糟的

参考例句：

• Things have been getting chaotic in the office recently.最近办公室的情况越来越乱了。
• The traffic in the city was chaotic.这城市的交通糟透了。

7 immediate   

adj.立即的；直接的，最接近的；紧靠的

参考例句：

• His immediate neighbours felt it their duty to call.他的近邻认为他们有责任去拜访。
• We declared ourselves for the immediate convocation of the meeting.我们主张立即召开这个会议。

8 killing   

n.巨额利润；突然赚大钱，发大财

参考例句：

• Investors are set to make a killing from the sell-off.投资者准备清仓以便大赚一笔。
• Last week my brother made a killing on Wall Street.上个周我兄弟在华尔街赚了一大笔。

9 democrat   

n.民主主义者，民主人士；民主党党员

参考例句：

• The Democrat and the Public criticized each other.民主党人和共和党人互相攻击。
• About two years later,he was defeated by Democrat Jimmy Carter.大约两年后，他被民主党人杰米卡特击败。

10 partisan   

adj.党派性的；游击队的；n.游击队员；党徒

参考例句：

• In their anger they forget all the partisan quarrels.愤怒之中，他们忘掉一切党派之争。
• The numerous newly created partisan detachments began working slowly towards that region.许多新建的游击队都开始慢慢地向那里移动。

11 restrictions   

约束( restriction的名词复数 )； 管制； 制约因素； 带限制性的条件（或规则）

参考例句：

• I found the restrictions irksome. 我对那些限制感到很烦。
• a snaggle of restrictions 杂乱无章的种种限制

12 inauguration   

n.开幕、就职典礼

参考例句：

• The inauguration of a President of the United States takes place on January 20.美国总统的就职典礼于一月二十日举行。
• Three celebrated tenors sang at the president's inauguration.3位著名的男高音歌手在总统就职仪式上演唱。

13 jersey   

n.运动衫

参考例句：

• He wears a cotton jersey when he plays football.他穿运动衫踢足球。
• They were dressed alike in blue jersey and knickers.他们穿着一致，都是蓝色的运动衫和灯笼短裤。

14 investigation   

n.调查，调查研究

参考例句：

• In an investigation,a new fact became known, which told against him.在调查中新发现了一件对他不利的事实。
• He drew the conclusion by building on his own investigation.他根据自己的调查研究作出结论。

15 vegetarian   

n.素食者；adj.素食的

参考例句：

• She got used gradually to the vegetarian diet.她逐渐习惯吃素食。
• I didn't realize you were a vegetarian.我不知道你是个素食者。

16 defense   

n.防御，保卫；[pl.]防务工事；辩护，答辩

参考例句：

• The accused has the right to defense.被告人有权获得辩护。
• The war has impacted the area with military and defense workers.战争使那个地区挤满了军队和防御工程人员。

17 analyst   

n.分析家，化验员；心理分析学家

参考例句：

• What can you contribute to the position of a market analyst?你有什么技能可有助于市场分析员的职务？
• The analyst is required to interpolate values between standards.分析人员需要在这些标准中插入一些值。