英文早点丨0809 - 3小时30亡，连续枪击让美忙

美国得克萨斯州当地时间8月3日上午，在埃尔帕索市郊，一名持枪青年冲进一家沃尔玛超市扫射人群，造成至少20人死亡，26人受伤。8月4日凌晨1时左右，在埃尔帕索惊魂未定时，美国中部的俄亥俄州代顿市，一名24岁的白人青年康纳·贝茨冲进了酒吧区向人群扫射，至少9位无辜的平民在枪口下身亡，27人受伤。得州枪手是21岁的白人男子帕特里克·克鲁修斯，其被认为是“白人至上主义者”，作案动机与反移民、种族主义仇恨有关。俄亥俄州枪手是24岁的白人男子康纳尔·贝茨，他作案时身穿防弹背心，且携带有大量弹药，其作案动机暂不清楚。多年来，美国政府在“控枪”还是“拥枪”的争论中毫无作为，枪支暴力呈现连年上升的趋势。据统计，截至8月5日，美国在2019年与枪支相关的死亡总人数已达8782人。

As fruit needs not only sunshine but cold nights and chilling showers to ripen it, so character needs not only joy but trial and difficulty to mellow it. ——Black

A shattering weekend in which two mass shootings left at least 29 people dead and injured dozens put Donald Trump at the center of a storm of outrage over racism and the failure on gun control in America.

Even as the president said “hate has no place in our country” and blamed the shootings on mental illness, investigators in El Paso confirmed that a massacre at a Walmart superstore on Saturday that left at least 20 people dead in the Texas border city had been preceded by the suspected gunman publishing an anti-immigration screed via the darker recesses of the internet.

And in a mass shooting in the early hours of Sunday, just 13 hours later, a gunman in Dayton, Ohio, was wearing body armor and carrying 100-bullet magazines to arm his high-powered rifle, with law enforcement warning he could have killed many dozens of people if he had not been shot by police within 30 seconds of opening fire.

reckon

英 [ˈrekən] 美 [ˈrekən]

• v. 想;认为;被普遍认为是;被看作是;料想;预计;指望

massacre

英 [ˈmæsəkə(r)] 美 [ˈmæsəkər]

• n. 屠杀;残杀;(运动或比赛中的)惨败

• v. 屠杀;杀戮;(在运动或比赛中)使惨败

screed

英 [skriːd] 美 [skriːd]

• n. 冗长的文章;长篇大论

recess

英 [ˈriːses , rɪˈses] 美 [ˈriːses , rɪˈses]

• n. 休会期;休庭;壁龛;壁橱;凹室

• v. 休会;暂停;宣布暂停;把…放进壁龛(或壁橱);将…嵌入墙壁