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美国国家公共电台 NPR Beto O'Rourke Reboots His Presidential Campaign With A Focus On Guns And Trump

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ASMA KHALID, HOST:

Hey there. It's the NPR POLITICS PODCAST. I'm Asma Khalid. All summer long, we have been taking you on the road to meet the 2020 Democratic presidential candidates.

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UNIDENTIFIED PERSON: Love you, Beto.

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KHALID: It's a collaboration2 with New Hampshire Public Radio and Iowa Public Radio, which is why I met up with IPR's lead political reporter Clay Masters. We went to see former Texas Congressman3 Beto O'Rourke as he made his first trip back to Iowa in a while.

CLAY MASTERS, HOST:

We are in Des Moines. We're on the east side of the city. We are at Grand View University. This is a small private college.

KHALID: So Clay, you heard Beto O'Rourke. You talked to him when he was here - first here in Iowa, when he first announced his bid for the presidency4. What do you feel is different about this trip?

MASTERS: Well, what's different is so much time has passed. There isn't this kind of buzz about his campaign, as there was when he first announced in March. When he first came here in March, people were wanting to see this guy who almost beat Ted5 Cruz for the Senate race in Texas.

KHALID: But O'Rourke has struggled to translate that enthusiasm for his fight against Ted Cruz into a national campaign. A couple of weeks ago, in his hometown of El Paso, Texas, a gunman specifically targeting Mexicans killed 22 people in a Walmart. O'Rourke took a hiatus from his presidential campaign and went home to comfort his grieving city. Now he is back on the trail, and the mass shooting has inspired him to rebrand his campaign and focus it more squarely on the president, white nationalism and gun violence.

And he talks a lot about uniting the country and getting rid of some of the racial division that he's seen pop up since the presidency of Donald Trump6.

MASTERS: Yeah, I think he's just really hoping that people are going to start reengaging with him here in a state like Iowa, where they first were very engaged when he first came here.

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BETO O'ROURKE: This president is helping7 to cause it. He is not the only sole cause of it. This is foundational to our country. But he's inviting8 it out into the open with tragic9 consequences for all of us. So as president, we've got to make sure that we make our No. 1 law enforcement priority combating white nationalism and white supremacy10 in this country.

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KHALID: The next morning, after his rally in Des Moines, we caught up with O'Rourke at his hotel. He had a coffee in his hand, which made us wonder if we had cut into his morning routine.

O'ROURKE: So I have an ideal routine. If it's a perfect morning, I get up with time to run, read email, read the news, you know, write a note to my wife Amy and then begin the day. But rarely do we have an ideal morning. Usually, we're getting in so late, and we're starting so early that the run, the reading, the letter to Amy, all that kind of gets squeezed out.

KHALID: Did you run this morning?

O'ROURKE: No, I didn't. No, I prioritized sleep.

KHALID: I was going to be real impressed. I was like, I did not exercise this morning at all (laughter).

O'ROURKE: Yeah. So the last couple of nights, I just have gotten no sleep. And so I decided11 last night, when I set the alarm for this morning, I was going to prioritize getting the hours in. And I did, and so we're good.

MASTERS: You have said that you want to take on President Trump more directly, and that means you're traveling to places where his policies have had an impact - the town in Mississippi where there was the big immigration raid. But by fixating on President Trump, are you not letting President Trump define your campaign?

O'ROURKE: No, I think that if we don't call this country's attention to the true cost and consequence of Donald Trump, then the blame will be on us, every one of us who was complicit in our silence or who failed to focus on the fact that his racism12, his invitation to hatred13, his invitation to violence was taking the lives of our fellow Americans.

And the terrifying and terrorizing raids, like the one that he authorized14 in Mississippi - the largest single-state workplace raid in the history of the United States, affecting nearly 700 families in that state - is part of a larger trend of action and attacks against immigrants, against people who do not look like or pray like or love like the majority in this country. And if that continues, I'm confident that we'll lose this country. We really will.

And I liken it to being a country that is asleep and a country that will die in its sleep unless it wakes up to the threat that it faces, and that threat very clearly is Donald Trump.

KHALID: You recently released a plan that is both an effort to tackle gun violence as well as white nationalism. And from that plan, it seems very clear that you see those ideas as intimately connected. I am curious - why focus on white nationalism when we can point to so many shootings that were not tied to that ideology15? I'm thinking of, you know, Parkland, San Bernardino or even the Pulse nightclub.

O'ROURKE: You're correct that with 49,000 gun violence deaths in this country, not all of them are connected to white nationalism, white supremacy or white terrorism. But that uniquely has caused fear in the Hispanic community. It has uniquely caused fear in the Jewish community.

You have somebody walk into the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh, again, echoing President Trump's words about a caravan16 coming to this country. When someone speculated in front of President Trump that it was financed by wealthy Jews, the president entertained the notion, and that's what drove that killer17 in that attack. The mosque18 in Victoria, Texas, burned to the ground within a day of the president issuing his executive order attempting to ban Muslim travel.

So you do have to connect the hatred, the racism, the president's words and actions with the accessibility of those weapons that affords someone the means to conduct this kind of terror in this country. If I don't connect these dots, then I am complicit in the next mass murder or the next act of domestic terror. So this is a very real threat.

And it's not Beto O'Rourke, a Democrat1, saying this; it's Christopher Wray, President Trump's FBI director, who is saying that. It is across the intelligence and law enforcement community and any American who's willing to open their eyes and connect the dots that this is a very real threat.

MASTERS: A lot of your campaign has focused a lot on the tone of the presidency, and sometimes that will overshadow specific policy. If you were elected president, what is that bill - that one bill that you would prioritize if elected president? Like, what is that policy?

O'ROURKE: There is no one bill, of course. There is the greatest set of challenges that this country has ever faced, and we've got to be up to all of them. And so as you heard at the town hall last night in Des Moines, a gentleman stood up and he said, look - climate is connected to every single one of these challenges. Why do we have so many refugees and asylum-seekers from Guatemala? It's experiencing one of the worst droughts that country's ever seen. And it's not an act of God or Mother Nature; it is an act of humankind.

And so ensuring that we're up to the challenge of a warming planet, confronting that successfully within the 10 years we have left before it's too late, that's a priority. But so is ensuring that we no longer detain kids at the U.S.-Mexico border, we no longer terrorize families in these workplace raids, we don't lose the life of another child in our custody20 and care, by rewriting our immigration laws in our own image - that's an extraordinary opportunity for us. Health care - universal, guaranteed, high-quality care that preserves choice while ensuring that every single American can see a provider or a therapist or afford their medication. That's a priority as well.

And then perhaps wrapping all this up in together and the contrast with the president - if we define people as somehow dangerous or disqualified based on their differences along religious or ethnic21 or racial lines, or how many generations you can count yourself an American, we'll never overcome the challenges that I just enumerated22.

KHALID: Congressman, if you had to choose amongst those, some of the priorities you listed - because it's very plausible23, if elected, you may have a Republican Congress that you'll have to try to get your agenda through - how would you choose to focus on one particular piece of legislation?

O'ROURKE: Well, when you have people being gunned down in a Walmart in El Paso, when you have 6- and 7-year-olds being gunned down in their elementary school, when you have high school students hunted in the halls of their institution, that is an incredibly urgent challenge for this country. And both through executive order and by working with Congress and by elevating the voices of Moms Demand and the students marching for our lives and all those extraordinary advocates, I know that we can end the epidemic24 of gun violence in this country.

I know that we can prioritize white nationalist domestic terrorism as a law enforcement priority for DOJ and Department of Homeland Security and make sure that we literally25 do not tear this country apart through political violence. Those are two things that are very much on my mind. But I really want to reject the false choice that, as president, you get to pick an issue to work on.

KHALID: I want to talk a bit about immigration. You are from a border town - El Paso. What is your vision for a secure border?

O'ROURKE: There is a great leader in my community - doesn't hold elected office, but leads an organization called the Border Network for Human Rights - Fernando Garcia. And I'll never forget - this was 10 years ago. We were at a conference on just this issue in El Paso. And he said, (Speaking Spanish). If you want to secure your communities, if we want to secure the border, treat people with respect and dignity.

El Paso, Texas, is one of if not the safest cities in the United States. It's safe not despite but because we're a city of immigrants, because we're a minority majority community, because we're connected to Mexico, and we see all of those as fundamental to our strength and our success and our security. So let's build on that as we rewrite this country's immigration laws - no walls, no cages for kids, no militarization of the border. More than a million DREAMers - make them U.S. citizens in this - their true home country and homeland.

MASTERS: We're very far from the U.S.-Mexico border right now. We're in Iowa. How do you see immigration laws helping states like Iowa that are far removed from the border, or is it far removed?

O'ROURKE: It's interesting. So last night I was talking about El Paso as a city of immigrants, and I said, well, hell, Des Moines is a city of immigrants. And this young woman came up to me afterwards and said, thank you for saying that. We get so often stereotyped26 as a community that is monochromatic27 and is only defined by one experience or set of experiences in America. She says, this is incredibly diverse. There are people from all over the world who have found a home here in Des Moines, which is of course the American story.

So this country of immigrants and asylum-seekers, this country of people who were brought here against their will, this country of people from the planet over who, by their very presence, have made us better. We lose sight of that at our own peril28. We build walls. We militarize the border. We reject those at their most desperate and vulnerable moments. And then we reject the very notion and idea of America, our exceptionalism, our success and our ability to fulfill29 our promise. That resonated so strongly last night in Des Moines, and I heard that back from everyone who came up to shake my hand afterwards.

KHALID: There has been a lot of pressure on you to end your bid for the presidency and instead run for the Senate. And you have made it very clear that you, under no scenario30, want to run for the United States Senate. But there are currently over 20 Democrats31 seeking the nomination32 for the president, and some of them do have a lot more experience than you in government. Some of them are articulating really clear policy positions on things. Some of them are polling higher than you. So talk to us about what makes you think that you are the answer.

O'ROURKE: I want to serve this country as president, and I think I have a perspective that is important for this country at this moment. As Donald Trump vilifies33 and demonizes the border, communities of immigrants - seeks to make us afraid, warns of invasions and infestations34 and calls those who come to this country killers35 and predators36 and animals. It is in a community of immigrants on the U.S.-Mexico border that I was raised and that Amy and I are raising Ulysses and Molly and Henry. I think I can tell a very powerful, a very positive story of the contribution that immigrants make to the success of this country. (Speaking Spanish). In Texas, going to every one of those 254 counties on a very progressive agenda, we helped to take a state that had ranked 50th in voter turnout, written off as too red and Republican to count to one that gave us more votes than any Democrat had ever received, won independents for the first time in decades, brought nearly half a million Republicans along with us, helped to flip37 two congressional seats and elect 17 African American women to judicial38 positions in Harris County, literally changing the face of criminal justice in this country's most diverse city.

It's - that kind of perspective, that kind of campaigning, that way of bringing people in at a very divided time - that's the way that you beat Donald Trump. I think that's also the way that you reunite this polarized country in the face of these challenges so that we can overcome them.

KHALID: All right. We are going to take a quick break. And when we come back, we ask O'Rourke about following his father's footsteps into politics, how he talks to his kids about President Trump and what he can't let go of.

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KHALID: And we're back.

MASTERS: I think this is where we're transitioning now. Right? We're going to transition to the personal side of this conversation.

O'ROURKE: Cool.

MASTERS: What is a time from your childhood that affects the way that you see government?

O'ROURKE: Oh. You know, it's hard to pick a moment. I'll try. So my dad, who served in local government - was a county commissioner39 and a county judge - and who just had a hell of a lot of fun in doing it and, you know, took me and my sisters to the backyard fundraisers or the election night parties or, you know, licking envelopes or carrying signs around on two-by-fours outside of the polling place - you know, he taught me the joy and the power of being with people and serving people and connecting with people.

But he was also somebody who loved being outdoors and loved taking us out into the mountains on backpack trips. And I remember this one moment really sticks with me, and it really informs how I think about climate and the environment and our responsibility to one another and the next generation. We were in Three Rivers, up above Alamogordo in New Mexico in the Lincoln National Forest, and we were crossing one of these rivers. And I remember stopping midway through the river - I was 6 or 7 years old - taking our tin cups off of our backpacks and dipping them into the river and drinking the water.

And I don't know why, but that image came to mind when you asked the question. It's just, for me, so resonant40 - that speaks to both what we have right now that is so remarkable41 and beautiful - our ability to go do that - and what we could possibly lose if we do not confront the challenges before us environmentally or through climate change or just our ability to, you know, have those special shared moments with one another.

KHALID: You mentioned your dad. And your dad, you know, you've described as this kind of like larger-than-life, really gregarious42 figure but also someone who you said could be really critical.

O'ROURKE: Oh, yeah.

KHALID: I am curious - because he was such a fixture43 in local El Paso politics - that, after he died, when you ran for the city council there, what it felt like to follow in his footsteps.

O'ROURKE: Yeah. So I was a painfully shy kid and then a painfully shy young man. But as I got more engaged in the community - starting a business, starting a local online newspaper with good friends and then running for city council a few years after my dad died - I discovered and connected with that joy that I'd seen him feel and bring to others in our community through his involvement in politics. I really got what it was all about going door to door.

You know, it was at that moment, running for city council, that I really felt like I was also connecting with my dad, who at this point had been - who had been dead for a few years, and what had made politics so special for him and maybe unanswered questions I had about why he pursued that and why he spent so much time, so many nights, so many weekends out there campaigning and connecting with people. It was the right thing to do. He was called to it. But there's also a joy in that connection that you make with people. And I certainly felt that in that first city council race.

MASTERS: As a father yourself of three kids, how do you talk to your kids about President Donald Trump and the fact that he was elected in this country?

O'ROURKE: It's a tough one. And I remember the night that he was elected, as perhaps many other people in this country were doing, Amy and I were watching the returns in disbelief and wondering how we're going to explain this to our kids, especially living in El Paso, a city that they know to be so special. You have this guy elected who hates immigrants, calls them rapists and criminals, promises to build a wall, is speaking in the most hateful terms about a community that we love so much. But we then asked ourselves another question - what are we going to tell our kids we did in the face of this? And the answer to that had to be stepping up in the biggest way that we could, which meant running for Senate at the time, in 2016 and 2017, and in the 2018 election. And that question is still on the table and still resonant and has Amy and me doing everything we can for our country right now.

And I take great comfort in knowing that so many millions of Americans have answered the question the same way for themselves. They're either running for office, supporting someone who's running for office, marching in the streets against gun violence - for science, against climate change, for health care for every American. They're going to make this a better country. And perhaps the best that we could say about Donald Trump is he's forced all of us to decide what we want this country to be and what our role will be in achieving that.

MASTERS: And do the kids have follow-up questions then?

O'ROURKE: Well, yeah...

MASTERS: Well, if you unroll all that, I mean, like, (laughter) how do they respond?

O'ROURKE: Yeah, I mean, so we're not even three weeks past one of the most horrific shootings in American history, certainly in the history of El Paso. They have a lot of questions. They just started school last week. And our youngest is, you know, asking questions about the active shooter drill that he did last year and whether that is what he has to do should somebody come into his school in the same way that someone came into a Walmart and why does this happen in our country right now. You know, we talk about this stuff.

And those kids, like kids everywhere, they're smart. They have the most finely tuned44 BS meter. They're not going to be satisfied with any - you know, you're going to be OK; don't worry about it; that is a really rare instance; it's just because somebody has mental health issues; it's just, you know, evil's out in the world. They don't buy that stuff. They know that there are things that we can do, and they fully19 expect us to do them to make them safe.

KHALID: Can you talk to us about a time in your life when you feel that you failed? And we're talking, ideally, about an apolitical moment and what you learned from that particular moment of failure.

O'ROURKE: This is like the job interview question where they ask you, you know, tell us something terrible about yourself...

KHALID: Totally.

O'ROURKE: ...Or a problem that you have and - you know, I work too hard; I just don't quit.

I think about a young man that I had met in El Paso shortly after I was sworn into Congress named Nick D'Amico who was a veteran, served our country, was, like so many veterans across America and in El Paso, trying to get into the VA and was unable to do so for his post-traumatic stress disorder45 - met me, shook my hand, listened to other veterans who were telling me stories about trying to get into the VA and were unable to do so. And in all of our failure to connect those veterans to the care that they needed, in his frustration46, Nick ended up taking his own life.

And I, shortly thereafter, had a chance to meet his mother, Bonnie D'Amico, who wanted to make sure that I understood Nick's story and connected the dots for me - our failure in ensuring that he could get the care that he had earned and deserved and how that cost him his life and how we now know that costs the lives of more than 20 veterans a day in this country.

So we all failed Nick, myself included - and learning from that, made sure that in El Paso, which had the worst wait times to see a mental health care provider, we brought the community together to fill the gaps. We hired more psychologists and psychiatrists47 and therapists and social workers. And we prioritize this publicly, privately48, in every instance and occasion that we could, and we helped to turn that around.

MASTERS: So the way that we end the NPR POLITICS PODCAST is we want to focus on something you can't let go of this week, politics or otherwise - preferably not politics, since we just spent a lot of time...

O'ROURKE: Yeah.

MASTERS: ...Going over that. But Congressman, what can you not let go of this week?

O'ROURKE: We were driving from Jackson, Miss., to Little Rock, Ark., and a text comes in from my wife. And she was trying to get into the funeral of a woman who was killed in the Walmart attack who, with her husband, had just moved to El Paso - didn't have friends, didn't have family in the community, didn't have a network. They didn't expect anybody to come out to the funeral, so the El Paso Times had published a notice saying the community was welcome to attend.

And the picture she texts me is of her place in line, where she's been waiting four hours to get into the church because this man who just lost his wife, who had no friends, who didn't think anybody was going to show up was met by first hundreds and then thousands of people in the community who wanted to be with him at his moment of grief - at perhaps his lowest point.

And that gave me some hope and some encouragement and speaks to - in the face of the absolutely worst thing that I can imagine happening to any one of us and to some of the worst that's happening to us in this country, there are really good people of good conscience in America who are willing to come together when it really counts. And so that image of Amy's place in line trying to get into that funeral is something that I will never forget.

MASTERS: Thanks for taking the time to talk with us today.

O'ROURKE: Thank you.

KHALID: Thank you so much.

O'ROURKE: Really appreciate it.

KHALID: This is the latest interview in our series where we are taking you on the road to meet the 2020 Democratic presidential candidates. You can find other interviews with candidates like Andrew Yang, Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders in our podcast feed. We'll be back as soon as there is more political news that you need to know about. I'm Asma Khalid. And thank you for listening to the NPR POLITICS PODCAST.

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参考例句:
  • The mosque is a activity site and culture center of Muslim religion.清真寺为穆斯林宗教活动场所和文化中心。
  • Some years ago the clock in the tower of the mosque got out of order.几年前,清真寺钟楼里的大钟失灵了。
19 fully Gfuzd     
adv.完全地,全部地,彻底地;充分地
参考例句:
  • The doctor asked me to breathe in,then to breathe out fully.医生让我先吸气,然后全部呼出。
  • They soon became fully integrated into the local community.他们很快就完全融入了当地人的圈子。
20 custody Qntzd     
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。
21 ethnic jiAz3     
adj.人种的,种族的,异教徒的
参考例句:
  • This music would sound more ethnic if you played it in steel drums.如果你用钢鼓演奏,这首乐曲将更具民族特色。
  • The plan is likely only to aggravate ethnic frictions.这一方案很有可能只会加剧种族冲突。
22 enumerated 837292cced46f73066764a6de97d6d20     
v.列举,枚举,数( enumerate的过去式和过去分词 )
参考例句:
  • A spokesperson enumerated the strikers' demands. 发言人列数罢工者的要求。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • He enumerated the capitals of the 50 states. 他列举了50个州的首府。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
23 plausible hBCyy     
adj.似真实的,似乎有理的,似乎可信的
参考例句:
  • His story sounded plausible.他说的那番话似乎是真实的。
  • Her story sounded perfectly plausible.她的说辞听起来言之有理。
24 epidemic 5iTzz     
n.流行病;盛行;adj.流行性的,流传极广的
参考例句:
  • That kind of epidemic disease has long been stamped out.那种传染病早已绝迹。
  • The authorities tried to localise the epidemic.当局试图把流行病限制在局部范围。
25 literally 28Wzv     
adv.照字面意义,逐字地;确实
参考例句:
  • He translated the passage literally.他逐字逐句地翻译这段文字。
  • Sometimes she would not sit down till she was literally faint.有时候,她不走到真正要昏厥了,决不肯坐下来。
26 stereotyped Dhqz9v     
adj.(指形象、思想、人物等)模式化的
参考例句:
  • There is a sameness about all these tales. They're so stereotyped -- all about talented scholars and lovely ladies. 这些书就是一套子,左不过是些才子佳人,最没趣儿。
  • He is the stereotyped monster of the horror films and the adventure books, and an obvious (though not perhaps strictly scientific) link with our ancestral past. 它们是恐怖电影和惊险小说中的老一套的怪物,并且与我们的祖先有着明显的(虽然可能没有科学的)联系。
27 monochromatic HjYy7     
adj.单色的,一色的
参考例句:
  • The resolution of white light into its separate monochromatic components is called dispersion.这种白光分解为各单色成分的现象叫做色散。
  • My sister selected a monochromatic color-scheme for her new apartment.我妹妹为自己的新居选择了单一色调的设计。
28 peril l3Dz6     
n.(严重的)危险;危险的事物
参考例句:
  • The refugees were in peril of death from hunger.难民有饿死的危险。
  • The embankment is in great peril.河堤岌岌可危。
29 fulfill Qhbxg     
vt.履行,实现,完成;满足,使满意
参考例句:
  • If you make a promise you should fulfill it.如果你许诺了,你就要履行你的诺言。
  • This company should be able to fulfill our requirements.这家公司应该能够满足我们的要求。
30 scenario lZoxm     
n.剧本,脚本;概要
参考例句:
  • But the birth scenario is not completely accurate.然而分娩脚本并非完全准确的。
  • This is a totally different scenario.这是完全不同的剧本。
31 democrats 655beefefdcaf76097d489a3ff245f76     
n.民主主义者,民主人士( democrat的名词复数 )
参考例句:
  • The Democrats held a pep rally on Capitol Hill yesterday. 民主党昨天在国会山召开了竞选誓师大会。
  • The democrats organize a filibuster in the senate. 民主党党员组织了阻挠议事。 来自《简明英汉词典》
32 nomination BHMxw     
n.提名,任命,提名权
参考例句:
  • John is favourite to get the nomination for club president.约翰最有希望被提名为俱乐部主席。
  • Few people pronounced for his nomination.很少人表示赞成他的提名。
33 vilifies c1b97079c72f6bd4bc91256b21b8cbbf     
n.中伤,诽谤( vilify的名词复数 )v.中伤,诽谤( vilify的第三人称单数 )
参考例句:
  • Pilar vilifies him as a coward and finally manages to overrule him. 皮拉尔骂他是懦夫,并且最终没法压服了他。 来自互联网
  • The Dalai Lama vilifies the present human rights situation in Tibet. 达赖诋毁今天西藏的人权状况。 来自互联网
34 infestations ace083e6dba5b9eb0980e4990eee3074     
n.(害虫、盗贼等)群袭,出没,横行( infestation的名词复数 )
参考例句:
  • The arrival of warm weather raises the specter of disease and increased rat infestations caused by rotting garbage. 天气转暖使人们担心垃圾腐烂会引起疾病传播和鼠群猖獗。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Piperazine citrate is the drug of choice in the treatment of Ascaris infestations. 枸橼酸哌嗪治疗蛔虫感染是最好的药物。 来自辞典例句
35 killers c1a8ff788475e2c3424ec8d3f91dd856     
凶手( killer的名词复数 ); 消灭…者; 致命物; 极难的事
参考例句:
  • He remained steadfast in his determination to bring the killers to justice. 他要将杀人凶手绳之以法的决心一直没有动摇。
  • They were professional killers who did in John. 杀死约翰的这些人是职业杀手。
36 predators 48b965855934a5395e409c1112d94f63     
n.食肉动物( predator的名词复数 );奴役他人者(尤指在财务或性关系方面)
参考例句:
  • birds and their earthbound predators 鸟和地面上捕食它们的动物
  • The eyes of predators are highly sensitive to the slightest movement. 捕食性动物的眼睛能感觉到最细小的动静。 来自《简明英汉词典》
37 flip Vjwx6     
vt.快速翻动;轻抛;轻拍;n.轻抛;adj.轻浮的
参考例句:
  • I had a quick flip through the book and it looked very interesting.我很快翻阅了一下那本书,看来似乎很有趣。
  • Let's flip a coin to see who pays the bill.咱们来抛硬币决定谁付钱。
38 judicial c3fxD     
adj.司法的,法庭的,审判的,明断的,公正的
参考例句:
  • He is a man with a judicial mind.他是个公正的人。
  • Tom takes judicial proceedings against his father.汤姆对他的父亲正式提出诉讼。
39 commissioner gq3zX     
n.(政府厅、局、处等部门)专员,长官,委员
参考例句:
  • The commissioner has issued a warrant for her arrest.专员发出了对她的逮捕令。
  • He was tapped for police commissioner.他被任命为警务处长。
40 resonant TBCzC     
adj.(声音)洪亮的,共鸣的
参考例句:
  • She has a resonant voice.她的嗓子真亮。
  • He responded with a resonant laugh.他报以洪亮的笑声。
41 remarkable 8Vbx6     
adj.显著的,异常的,非凡的,值得注意的
参考例句:
  • She has made remarkable headway in her writing skills.她在写作技巧方面有了长足进步。
  • These cars are remarkable for the quietness of their engines.这些汽车因发动机没有噪音而不同凡响。
42 gregarious DfuxO     
adj.群居的,喜好群居的
参考例句:
  • These animals are highly gregarious.这些动物非常喜欢群居。
  • They are gregarious birds and feed in flocks.它们是群居鸟类,会集群觅食。
43 fixture hjKxo     
n.固定设备;预定日期;比赛时间;定期存款
参考例句:
  • Lighting fixture must be installed at once.必须立即安装照明设备。
  • The cordless kettle may now be a fixture in most kitchens.无绳电热水壶现在可能是多数厨房的固定设备。
44 tuned b40b43fd5af2db4fbfeb4e83856e4876     
adj.调谐的,已调谐的v.调音( tune的过去式和过去分词 );调整;(给收音机、电视等)调谐;使协调
参考例句:
  • The resort is tuned in to the tastes of young and old alike. 这个度假胜地适合各种口味,老少皆宜。
  • The instruments should be tuned up before each performance. 每次演出开始前都应将乐器调好音。 来自《简明英汉词典》
45 disorder Et1x4     
n.紊乱,混乱;骚动,骚乱;疾病,失调
参考例句:
  • When returning back,he discovered the room to be in disorder.回家后,他发现屋子里乱七八糟。
  • It contained a vast number of letters in great disorder.里面七零八落地装着许多信件。
46 frustration 4hTxj     
n.挫折,失败,失效,落空
参考例句:
  • He had to fight back tears of frustration.他不得不强忍住失意的泪水。
  • He beat his hands on the steering wheel in frustration.他沮丧地用手打了几下方向盘。
47 psychiatrists 45b6a81e510da4f31f5b0fecd7b77261     
n.精神病专家,精神病医生( psychiatrist的名词复数 )
参考例句:
  • They are psychiatrists in good standing. 他们是合格的精神病医生。 来自辞典例句
  • Some psychiatrists have patients who grow almost alarmed at how congenial they suddenly feel. 有些精神分析学家发现,他们的某些病人在突然感到惬意的时候几乎会兴奋起来。 来自名作英译部分
48 privately IkpzwT     
adv.以私人的身份,悄悄地,私下地
参考例句:
  • Some ministers admit privately that unemployment could continue to rise.一些部长私下承认失业率可能继续升高。
  • The man privately admits that his motive is profits.那人私下承认他的动机是为了牟利。
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