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- According to the FBI, background checks for gun sales reached a record high on Black Friday, increasing by 5 percent from last year.
- 据美国联邦调查局报告，黑色星期五枪支销售背景调查创历史新高，与去年相比升高百分之五。
- The agency processed over 185,000 background checks on Friday, equal to about two checks per second.
- 周五该机构处理了185,000次背景调查，相当于每秒2次检查。
- But this number doesn't account for all possible gun sales, since the system doesn't check people who buy firearms through unlicensed dealers like gun shows.
- 但这个数字并不能说明所有可能的枪支销售，因为该系统不能检查人们通过无执照经销商购买的枪支。
- Obviously, the big Black Friday deals help,
- 很明显，黑色星期五促进了交易，
- but the co-director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research told The New York Times the fear of mass shootings and day-to-day violence drives up sales.
- 但霍普金斯枪支政策研究中心主任告诉纽约时报，对大规模枪击事件和日常暴力的担忧助长了枪支销售。
- ShootingTracker maintains a database online that says we've had more shootings than days this year,
- ShootingTracker维护在线数据库，说我们今年发生了更多的枪击事件，
- but its definition of a mass shooting is when four or more people are shot, but not necessarily killed.
- 其中对大规模枪击事件的定义是四个或更多的人被击中，但不一定要被枪杀。
- That's a broader definition than other agencies.
- 这是一个比其他机构更广泛的定义。
- Before this year, the highest number of background checks conducted on a single day was December 21, 2012, a week after the deadly Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting.
- 今年之前最高数量的背景调查是在2012年12月21日，桑迪胡克小学致命枪击事件一周后。
- Many politicians, including President Obama, have spoken out about tighter gun control measures, calling for greater action.
- 许多政界人士，包括奥巴马总统都表明要推行更为严格的枪支管制措施，呼吁采取更大的行动。
- In the United States, we have the power to do more to prevent what is just a regular process of gun homicides.
- 在美国，我们有能力去做更多，阻止普通的持枪杀人事件。
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| definition | [.defi'niʃən] | 联想记忆 | ||
| check | [tʃek] | 联想记忆 | ||
| commercial | [kə'mə:ʃəl] | 联想记忆 | ||
| mass | [mæs] | |||
| determined | [di'tə:mind] | |||
| regularity | [.regju'læriti] | |||
| aircraft | ['ɛəkrɑ:ft] | |||
| spread | [spred] | |||
| violence | ['vaiələns] | |||
| prevent | [pri'vent] | 联想记忆 |
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