万花筒 2010-01-01&01-02 大难不死--警徽挡子弹

This story gives new meaning to the phrase"Badge of Honor". After all,this badge is credited with saving officer Joshua Smith's life from a bullet.

It felt like someone hit me in the chest with a baseball bat. I couldn't breathe, I just couldn't catch my breath. At that point I was worried about finding the wound and stopping the bleeding

 But there was no wound and there was no bleeding,thanks to this steel badge. Officer Smith says it all started at 1 in the morning Christmas Eve when he spotted¹ a car weaving wildly on highway 64 in Oakland, he pulled the car with an expired temporary tag over and ordered the driver to get out for a field sobriety test. The passenger also got out and swung a knife at Smith. As Smith subdued² the passenger the driver pulled a gun and shot him at point-blank range.

As soon as the shot happened and I fell back, I was thinking, defend, defend, defend.

Smith fired back, the driver screamed then they took off. Smith says doctors told him without his badge, the wound to his chest could have killed him.

It could have been where my family was making funeral preparations as opposed to my kids opening gifts with their dad and my wife.Before the shooting,Smith says he didn't even like the bulky badges.

It felt like weighing the collar down. It wasn't really just complaining, but it was, it was a complaining statement. Smith says he got everything he wanted for Christmas.My life and my family. But, yeah, I got everything I needed. Everything I wanted.
 

1 spotted   

adj.有斑点的，斑纹的，弄污了的

参考例句：

• The milkman selected the spotted cows,from among a herd of two hundred.牛奶商从一群200头牛中选出有斑点的牛。
• Sam's shop stocks short spotted socks.山姆的商店屯积了有斑点的短袜。

2 subdued   

adj. 屈服的，柔和的，减弱的 动词subdue的过去式和过去分词

参考例句：

• He seemed a bit subdued to me. 我觉得他当时有点闷闷不乐。
• I felt strangely subdued when it was all over. 一切都结束的时候，我却有一种奇怪的压抑感。