《英语流行话题阅读:语境识词3500》Unit 24 雷德湖高中校园枪击事件

　　Unit 24
Red Lake High School Shooting
On March 23, 2005, 16-year-old Jeff Weise killed his grandfather, 58-year-old police officer Daryl Lussier, and the man's 32-year-old girlfriend wit a 22-caliber gun before taking his pistol and a shotgun, bulletproof vest and squad¹ car to Red Lake Senior High School in an Indian reservation near the Canadian border.
As Weise entered the school through a doorway² with a metal detector³, he shot to death Derrick Brun, an unarmed guard. Then Weise shot at 62-year-old teacher Neva Rogers, as well as some students, who fled into a classroom. He chased them and opened fire, killing⁴ Rogers and 5 students, injuring 14 boys, and then continued to wander through the school, firing randomly⁵. The 7 death toll⁶ made it the nation's worst school shooting since April 1999, when two students killed 12 classmates, a teacher and then themselves at Columbine High School in Colorado.
Four police officers entered, and Weise fired on them as well. At least one officer returned fire, but it was unknown whether Weise was wounded. Shortly afterward⁷, Weise went back into the classroom and shot himself in the head. There was no suicide note.
Weise was from the Ojibwa tribe, also known as the Chippewa, one of the poorest Indian tribes in Minnesota. His father committed suicide in 2001 and his mother stays in an old men's home for serious brain-damage in a traffic accident.
It was later reported that a person who had posted on the site of the Libertarian National Socialist⁸ Green Party identified himself as "Jeff Weise, from the Red Lake Indian Reservation." The writer said he disliked interracial mixing among the American Indians.
The Libertarian National Socialist Green Party issued a statement on its site confirming that Weise posted messages there. The writer of those messages had tow user names: "NativeNazi" and Todesengel," which mean "Angel of Death" in German. "I stumbled across the site in my study of the Third Reich as well as Nazism," says a March 2004 post. "I guess I've always carried a natural admiration¹⁰ for Hitler and his ideals, and his courage to take on larger nations."
Another 2004 posting says, "As a result of cultural dominance and interracial mixing, there is barely any full-blooded Natives left. Where I live, less than 1 percent of all the people on the reservation can speak their own language... Under a National Socialist government, things for us would improve vastly," it said. "That is why I am pro-Nazi. It's hard though, being a Native American National Socialist; people are so misinformed, ignorant and close minded; it makes your life a living hell."
NativeNazi also said he was a member of the Ojibwa tribe and "both my parents were Native American, though from what I understand I also have a little German, a little Irish and a little French Canadian in my blood as well."
The idea of Weise's joining a neo-Nazi group is not surprising. In America people constantly run across Jewish Nazis⁹, gay Nazis, blacks who wanted to be white supremacists -- these are powerless people to whom images of powerful people are attractive.

1 squad   

n.班，小队，小团体；vt.把…编成班或小组

参考例句：

• The squad leader ordered the men to mark time.班长命令战士们原地踏步。
• A squad is the smallest unit in an army.班是军队的最小构成单位。

2 doorway   

n.门口，(喻)入门；门路，途径

参考例句：

• They huddled in the shop doorway to shelter from the rain.他们挤在商店门口躲雨。
• Mary suddenly appeared in the doorway.玛丽突然出现在门口。

3 detector   

n.发觉者，探测器

参考例句：

• The detector is housed in a streamlined cylindrical container.探测器安装在流线型圆柱形容器内。
• Please walk through the metal detector.请走过金属检测器。

4 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。

5 randomly   

adv.随便地，未加计划地

参考例句：

• Within the hot gas chamber, molecules are moving randomly in all directions. 在灼热的气体燃烧室内，分子在各个方向上作无规运动。 来自辞典例句
• Transformed cells are loosely attached, rounded and randomly oriented. 转化细胞则不大贴壁、圆缩并呈杂乱分布。 来自辞典例句

6 toll   

n.过路(桥)费；损失，伤亡人数；v.敲(钟)

参考例句：

• The hailstone took a heavy toll of the crops in our village last night.昨晚那场冰雹损坏了我们村的庄稼。
• The war took a heavy toll of human life.这次战争夺去了许多人的生命。

7 afterward   

adv.后来；以后

参考例句：

• Let's go to the theatre first and eat afterward. 让我们先去看戏，然后吃饭。
• Afterward,the boy became a very famous artist.后来，这男孩成为一个很有名的艺术家。

8 socialist   

n.社会主义者；adj.社会主义的

参考例句：

• China is a socialist country,and a developing country as well.中国是一个社会主义国家，也是一个发展中国家。
• His father was an ardent socialist.他父亲是一个热情的社会主义者。

9 Nazis   

n.（德国的）纳粹党员( Nazi的名词复数 )；纳粹主义

参考例句：

• The Nazis worked them over with gun butts. 纳粹分子用枪托毒打他们。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• The Nazis were responsible for the mass murder of Jews during World War Ⅱ. 纳粹必须为第二次世界大战中对犹太人的大屠杀负责。 来自《简明英汉词典》

10 admiration   

n.钦佩，赞美，羡慕

参考例句：

• He was lost in admiration of the beauty of the scene.他对风景之美赞不绝口。
• We have a great admiration for the gold medalists.我们对金牌获得者极为敬佩。