美国国家公共电台 NPR At Least 10 Dead After School Shooting In Santa Fe, Texas

 

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST:

At least nine dead and 10 more injured - those are the official numbers after another school shooting in the United States. This time it happened in Texas at Santa Fe High School outside Houston. Here's Governor Greg Abbott speaking at a news conference this afternoon.

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GREG ABBOTT: We come together today as we deal with one of the most heinous² attacks that we've ever seen in the history of Texas schools.

SHAPIRO: A suspect is in custody³ and being questioned. Explosive devices were also found on the scene. Investigators⁴ are now trying to understand what happened and why. Joining us is NPR's Scott Detrow, who is in Santa Fe. Hi, Scott.

SCOTT DETROW, BYLINE⁵: Hey, Ari.

SHAPIRO: Briefly⁶ take us through what we know so far about the events today.

DETROW: Yeah. This happened early in the school day in the 8 o'clock hour. The shooter had a shotgun and a revolver. Students say he entered the building wearing a trench⁷ coat that the weapons were concealed⁸ under. As you mentioned, he killed 10 people. He injured an additional 10. Two of those are injured critically according to authorities. Law enforcement was at the school already. There were officers stationed there. They were able to respond quickly, and the shooter surrendered, though one local police officer is among the wounded. The shooter is alive and currently in custody at the police station.

SHAPIRO: And what can you tell us about him?

DETROW: His name is Dimitrios Pagourtzis, according to what law enforcement officials have told NPR. He's a student at the school. Authorities say he got the two weapons from his father, though it's unclear at this time whether his father knew the weapons were missing or what the circumstances of that were.

According to Texas Governor Greg Abbott, there were no clear warning signs popping up just yet. Abbott did mention something that we've been seeing a lot on social media - that there are pictures out there of Pagourtzis wearing a T-shirt that read born to kill, one of those things that looks very ominous⁹ in retrospect¹⁰. Abbott said police have already found journals, online postings indicating that Pagourtzis had originally planned on committing suicide. But authorities were able to get him to surrender.

SHAPIRO: And police are also questioning two people of interest. What can you tell us about that?

DETROW: We don't know too much about them right now. According to Governor Abbott, one of them was acting¹¹ suspiciously, so police are asking follow-up questions. It's unclear at this point whether that second person was involved in the shootings. The second person of interest they're talking to - according to Abbott, he might have certain information. That's all we know. It's really unclear what that means.

Police do have warrants to search the shooter's vehicle and house as well as a second location. But according to the governor, police are moving very cautiously on those fronts because they have found explosive devices at several of those locations, and they want to be careful.

SHAPIRO: At the press conference today, Governor Abbott spoke¹² about making sure this is the last school shooting in Texas.

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ABBOTT: We need to do more than just pray for the victims and their families. It's time in Texas that we take action.

SHAPIRO: Do more than just pray - Scott Detrow, what kind of action is the governor proposing?

DETROW: Abbott says he's open to anything. He wants to hold a roundtable early next week to start beginning discussions. Some of the early things he mentioned at this press conference - the ideas of more background checks, strategies to keep guns out of the hands of people with mental health issues, rethinking school safety.

You know, it's interesting. Abbott, Senator Ted¹ Cruz, Lieutenant¹³ Governor Dan Patrick all standing¹⁴ there - these are people who are strong NRA allies, but they're saying, we want to do something. And we did see Florida pass a lot of gun control laws right after the Parkland shooting a few months ago. So it'll be interesting to watch if anything happens here in Texas.

SHAPIRO: We're going to have more coverage¹⁵ of the story throughout the show, including voices of survivors¹⁶. Scott Detrow, thanks very much.

DETROW: Sure thing.

1 ted   

vt.翻晒，撒，撒开

参考例句：

• The invaders gut ted the village.侵略者把村中财物洗劫一空。
• She often teds the corn when it's sunny.天好的时候她就翻晒玉米。

2 heinous   

adj.可憎的，十恶不赦的

参考例句：

• They admitted to the most heinous crimes.他们承认了极其恶劣的罪行。
• I do not want to meet that heinous person.我不想见那个十恶不赦的人。

3 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。

4 investigators   

n.调查者，审查者( investigator的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• This memo could be the smoking gun that investigators have been looking for. 这份备忘录可能是调查人员一直在寻找的证据。
• The team consisted of six investigators and two secretaries. 这个团队由六个调查人员和两个秘书组成。 来自《简明英汉词典》

5 byline   

n.署名；v.署名

参考例句：

• His byline was absent as well.他的署名也不见了。
• We wish to thank the author of this article which carries no byline.我们要感谢这篇文章的那位没有署名的作者。

6 briefly   

adv.简单地，简短地

参考例句：

• I want to touch briefly on another aspect of the problem.我想简单地谈一下这个问题的另一方面。
• He was kidnapped and briefly detained by a terrorist group.他被一个恐怖组织绑架并短暂拘禁。

7 trench   

n./v.(挖)沟，(挖)战壕

参考例句：

• The soldiers recaptured their trench.兵士夺回了战壕。
• The troops received orders to trench the outpost.部队接到命令在前哨周围筑壕加强防卫。

8 concealed   

a.隐藏的，隐蔽的

参考例句：

• The paintings were concealed beneath a thick layer of plaster. 那些画被隐藏在厚厚的灰泥层下面。
• I think he had a gun concealed about his person. 我认为他当时身上藏有一支枪。

9 ominous   

adj.不祥的，不吉的，预兆的，预示的

参考例句：

• Those black clouds look ominous for our picnic.那些乌云对我们的野餐来说是个不祥之兆。
• There was an ominous silence at the other end of the phone.电话那头出现了不祥的沉默。

10 retrospect   

n.回顾，追溯；v.回顾，回想，追溯

参考例句：

• One's school life seems happier in retrospect than in reality.学校生活回忆起来显得比实际上要快乐。
• In retrospect,it's easy to see why we were wrong.回顾过去就很容易明白我们的错处了。

11 acting   

n.演戏，行为，假装；adj.代理的，临时的，演出用的

参考例句：

• Ignore her,she's just acting.别理她，她只是假装的。
• During the seventies,her acting career was in eclipse.在七十年代，她的表演生涯黯然失色。

12 spoke   

n.（车轮的）辐条；轮辐；破坏某人的计划；阻挠某人的行动 v.讲，谈（speak的过去式）；说；演说；从某种观点来说

参考例句：

• They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
• The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。

13 lieutenant   

n.陆军中尉，海军上尉；代理官员，副职官员

参考例句：

• He was promoted to be a lieutenant in the army.他被提升为陆军中尉。
• He prevailed on the lieutenant to send in a short note.他说动那个副官，递上了一张简短的便条进去。

14 standing   

n.持续，地位；adj.永久的，不动的，直立的，不流动的

参考例句：

• After the earthquake only a few houses were left standing.地震过后只有几幢房屋还立着。
• They're standing out against any change in the law.他们坚决反对对法律做任何修改。

15 coverage   

n.报导，保险范围，保险额，范围，覆盖

参考例句：

• There's little coverage of foreign news in the newspaper.报纸上几乎没有国外新闻报道。
• This is an insurance policy with extensive coverage.这是一项承保范围广泛的保险。

16 survivors   

幸存者，残存者，生还者( survivor的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The survivors were adrift in a lifeboat for six days. 幸存者在救生艇上漂流了六天。
• survivors clinging to a raft 紧紧抓住救生筏的幸存者