时间:2018-12-08 作者:英语课 分类:2018年VOA慢速英语(八)月


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President Donald Trump 1 says he is studying whether guns made by a three-dimensional (3-D) printer should be sold in the United States.


Trump wrote on Twitter the idea “doesn’t seem to make much sense!” He added that he spoke 2 to the National Rifle Association (NRA) about the issue.


The NRA is the largest American organization representing the interests of gun owners.


Trump’s comments come as eight states and the District of Columbia are taking legal action against his administration for permitting the release of the gun-printing plans. They say anyone following those step-by-step directions could use 3-D printer technology to create a gun out of plastic.


State attorneys general are the state officials who can bring cases against the federal government.


Washington State Attorney General Bob Ferguson is leading the case against the Trump administration. He said the gun-printing plans are a danger to the public.


“These downloadable guns are unregistered and very difficult to detect, even with metal detectors 3, and will be available to anyone regardless of age, mental health or criminal history,” he said.


The eight states and the District of Columbia argue that permitting people to make their own guns violates state controls over weapons.


Officials say that 1,000 people have already downloaded the directions for plastic guns.


Plans for printing a gun available to the public


A Texas company created the designs. They enable anyone with a 3-D printer to make the parts of a plastic gun that would cost just a few hundred dollars.


The same directions are also at the center of legal action over whether they can be made available to the public.


The State Department had ordered a gun rights activist 4 to stop providing the directions. State Department officials said the plans violated U.S. export laws.


The activist, Cody Wilson, argued that the ban violated his rights under the U.S. constitution. In June, the Trump administration changed its position to permit publication of some instructions.


Gun experts say plastic guns may not work without some metal parts and that they could blow up in the hands of users. They add that 3-D printing technology can be very costly 5.


I’m Jonathan Evans.


Words in This Story


three dimensional –adj. having length, width and height


printer – n. a device for making copies of a photograph or other object


detect – v. to discover the presence of something



1 trump
n.王牌,法宝;v.打出王牌,吹喇叭
  • He was never able to trump up the courage to have a showdown.他始终鼓不起勇气摊牌。
  • The coach saved his star player for a trump card.教练保留他的明星选手,作为他的王牌。
2 spoke
n.(车轮的)辐条;轮辐;破坏某人的计划;阻挠某人的行动 v.讲,谈(speak的过去式);说;演说;从某种观点来说
  • They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
  • The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。
3 detectors
探测器( detector的名词复数 )
  • The report advocated that all buildings be fitted with smoke detectors. 报告主张所有的建筑物都应安装烟火探测器。
  • This is heady wine for experimenters using these neutrino detectors. 对于使用中微子探测器的实验工作者,这是令人兴奋的美酒。 来自英汉非文学 - 科技
4 activist
n.活动分子,积极分子
  • He's been a trade union activist for many years.多年来他一直是工会的积极分子。
  • He is a social activist in our factory.他是我厂的社会活动积极分子。
5 costly
adj.昂贵的,价值高的,豪华的
  • It must be very costly to keep up a house like this.维修这么一幢房子一定很昂贵。
  • This dictionary is very useful,only it is a bit costly.这本词典很有用,左不过贵了些。
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abamperes
Alfredia acantholepis
Allium sacculiferum
anaerobe
anaphylactic intoxication
aquae redestillata
assistant principal
attention-seekings
background luminance sensor
be all one to
blueishest
burrises
can't-wait
censorizing
co-managements
commandists
corticopupillary reflex
coyves
decay-affected selectivity
deluging
dentate fissure
development threshold
DEVGRU
dopiest
Downtownian
eccrine angiomatous nevus
electropneumatic positioner
english departments
estivoautumnal(malaria)
evenly distributed
federal governments
filling area
Fluoromebendzole
foraminite
furuncular diathesis
goddang
hanging down
having in
hear warning bells
heliozoans
Hydraulic Rams
hydrolytic cleavage
impropriety
in-yede
intracluster medium
island delta
kammes
Karagaylinskiy
lease-backs
leslie cheung
mass storage disc
Maytiguid I.
mel'nikov
membrane of stapes
microdicks
midgardsormen
mixture optimum
mournfullest
Myorelaxin
myselfe
nephelite (nepheline)
non-H share Mainland private enterprise
not ready for prime time
obsolete activity
ore extraction
ossa Sylvii
paper document
Passate
photodimer
plane up
population pyramid
portery
Pretty Prairie
progressive atrophe of bone
protective legislation
protohominids
pycnometric method
quantum energy table
reciprocating expansion-engine
resin blush
right side engine
sales van
scale trace
scribbling
single spark-plug ignition
sinistrality
solid nibium electrolytic capacitor
straight-line type automatic sampler
strong army horse
submarginally
subvariance
suppression of image signal
the KKK
the top flight
unvisored
Valkeala
vibrating-reed meter
When I die,the world dies with me.
When this is prescribed
whistlin
White's operation
Yambean