时间:2018-12-16 作者:英语课 分类:VOA标准英语2010年(六)月


VOA标准英语2010年-US Supreme Court Strikes Down Chicago - 英语课
00:00 / 00:00
  1. 1 VOA标准英语2010年-US Supreme Court Strikes Down Chicago 英语课
英语课

Chicago Mayor Richard M. Daley speaks during a news conference, in Chicago. Daley said he's disappointed by Monday's widely expected Supreme 1 Court decision that Americans have a right to own a gun for self-defense anywhere but promised to soon push for a new ordinance 2 regulating handguns in the city. He stressed that while the city's 28-year-old ban remains 3 in place until a federal appeals court reconsiders its ruling, it's clear it will be overturned, 28 Jun 2010.


The Supreme Court has ruled that the  right to gun ownership applies nationwide. The High Court's decision is a response to a challenge of gun ban in Chicago and one of its suburbs, and comes two years after the justices struck down a law in Washington, D.C. banning possession of handguns.


The five-to-four decision resulted from a case against the city of Chicago and its suburb of Oak Park. Both have laws that effectively ban handgun possession by almost all private citizens.


The lead plaintiff in the Chicago case, Otis McDonald, challenged the law after he said criminals broke into his home and made repeated threats.


"At least the playing fields will be leveled," he said. "I don't have to be concerned about the young dealers 4 and gang-bangers coming in my house, because I believe now that they think twice."


In 2008, the Supreme Court ruled that the Second Amendment 5 protects the right to keep and bear arms for the purpose of self-defense, striking down a Washington, D.C. law that banned the possession of handguns in the home.


Monday's ruling said that right applies also to state and local gun control laws.


Paul Helmke, president of the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence, said he expects criminals convicted of gun charges to use Monday's ruling to challenge their convictions.


But the court offered little guidance on what type of gun control can be allowed.


"But even though we're going to see a lot more lawsuits 6, I remain very confident that most of those gun laws are going to be quickly upheld," Helmke said.


Chicago Mayor Richard Daley said guns in the home - even for self-defense - kill innocent people. "I don't think America should be known for 'we could kill more people than any other nation.'  We love to kill, we can kill overseas, we export more guns than anybody else, and we buy more guns than anybody else,  and ammunition," Daley said. "That should not be known as a great country."


In issuing its ruling, the Supreme Court sent the case back to Chicago for a lower court to issue the final decision, so the gun ban remains temporarily in effect.  


Mayor Daley says the city will rewrite its gun ordinance to  comply with Second Amendment rights, but he offered no explanation of how that might be achieved.

 



1 supreme
adj.极度的,最重要的;至高的,最高的
  • It was the supreme moment in his life.那是他一生中最重要的时刻。
  • He handed up the indictment to the supreme court.他把起诉书送交最高法院。
2 ordinance
n.法令;条令;条例
  • The Ordinance of 1785 provided the first land grants for educational purposes.1785年法案为教育目的提供了第一批土地。
  • The city passed an ordinance compelling all outdoor lighting to be switched off at 9.00 PM.该市通过一条法令强令晚上九点关闭一切室外照明。
3 remains
n.剩余物,残留物;遗体,遗迹
  • He ate the remains of food hungrily.他狼吞虎咽地吃剩余的食物。
  • The remains of the meal were fed to the dog.残羹剩饭喂狗了。
4 dealers
n.商人( dealer的名词复数 );贩毒者;毒品贩子;发牌者
  • There was fast bidding between private collectors and dealers. 私人收藏家和交易商急速竞相喊价。
  • The police were corrupt and were operating in collusion with the drug dealers. 警察腐败,与那伙毒品贩子内外勾结。
5 amendment
n.改正,修正,改善,修正案
  • The amendment was rejected by 207 voters to 143.这项修正案以207票对143票被否决。
  • The Opposition has tabled an amendment to the bill.反对党已经就该议案提交了一项修正条款。
6 lawsuits
n.诉讼( lawsuit的名词复数 )
  • Lawsuits involving property rights and farming and grazing rights increased markedly. 涉及财产权,耕作与放牧权的诉讼案件显著地增加。 来自辞典例句
  • I've lost and won more lawsuits than any man in England. 全英国的人算我官司打得最多,赢的也多,输的也多。 来自辞典例句
学英语单词
active metal indicated electrode
address track
air accident
al-majids
Allison's anchor
alternative pack
anamorphic process
Auchenmalg
b.n.f.jet test
big-tree plum
bird-disperseds
bordall
Boromo
boundary mark
break a code
bursae musculi subscapularis subtendinea
byerne
cackerels
Camellia polyodonta
cation resin
Charles Dudley
chemical power sources
chip weight
complete sex linkage
composite material
concentric weathering
corriente
CP (critical pressure)
data-desks
decagramme
drum drive
dysplastic cutaneous osteomatosis
eight-channel recording paper
endoproteases
ephemerals
fan diffuser
fiumefreddo
five-day forecast
foam homogenizing
gardenbot
hinged flask
horizontal sector
ignition temperatures
index viscosity
Indian summer
it shows
joom
lanthanum hydrogen pyrophosphate
large-bore hose
lesslie
litarge (litharge)
Long-term purchase
mark and space impulses
market-based
maternal smoking
maturrity-onset diabetes
megatons equivalent (mte)
mica flour
micro tremor
mixed odontoma
modern sediment
mucinous film
multimixer
narcobourgeoisie
naturist
ol group
Other fish to fry
phase-shift characteristic
phizog
phonolite
postnormal
prefinalization
pressure rubber tubing
property in the goods sold
radwaste store
ratifying state
real-valued function
red wire
rescue authority
RVV-X
secoiridoid glycoside
severe combined immunodeficiency
skull protector
spoiled material report
steric retardation
Strauss's test for lactic acid
subluminary
substratifications
summer hump
Syngamidae
terminal differentiation
the burdened
to make a request
usage variance
valve inner chamber
verruca plana juvenilis
Wdzydze, Jezioro
wet magnetic cobber
Willeroo
zaptyx kotoshoensis
zoophagan
zzaps