时间:2018-12-24 作者:英语课 分类:2017年Scientific American(二)月


英语课

 


“CDC is afraid is afraid to fund firearms research.”


David Hemenway, professor of health policy at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.


“Twenty years ago they were doing a tiny amount of funding for firearms research, $2.6 million a year, $2.6 million a year total. This was too much for the gun lobby and Republicans in Congress and they attacked the CDC and now CDC does no funding of firearms research. Zero.”


Hemenway spoke 1 February 17th about gun violence research at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement 2 of Science in Boston


“CDC is not expressively 3 prohibited from funding firearms research, but they’re correctly quite fearful because they know they’ll be brought up before Congress and berated 4 and their funding will be cut if they ever fund firearms research. Researchers, staff at the Centers for Disease Control are afraid to say the word guns or firearms at major meetings that I’ve been at for the last 20 years.


“The director of the CDC, of our major public health agency, we’ve had mass shooting after mass shooting in the United States, and what has he said? And I don’t blame him at all, but what has he said about the mass shootings in the United States? He has said not a single word. And for good reason. Because he knows if he says anything about guns, funding will be cut.”


—Steve Mirsky


(The above text is a transcript of this podcast)



1 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。
2 advancement
n.前进,促进,提升
  • His new contribution to the advancement of physiology was well appreciated.他对生理学发展的新贡献获得高度赞赏。
  • The aim of a university should be the advancement of learning.大学的目标应是促进学术。
3 expressively
ad.表示(某事物)地;表达地
  • She gave the order to the waiter, using her hands very expressively. 她意味深长地用双手把订单递给了服务员。
  • Corleone gestured expressively, submissively, with his hands. "That is all I want." 说到这里,考利昂老头子激动而谦恭地表示:“这就是我的全部要求。” 来自教父部分
4 berated
v.严厉责备,痛斥( berate的过去式和过去分词 )
  • Marion berated Joe for the noise he made. 玛丽昂严厉斥责乔吵吵闹闹。 来自辞典例句
  • It berated Mussolini for selling out to Berlin. 它严厉谴责了墨索里尼背叛、投靠柏林的行径。 来自辞典例句
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Acacia dealbata
actinotoxemia
Adansonian taxonomy
afraid of their shadow
allethrins
ammonia absorption amchine
autocommutation
beljames
benkhelils
bland infarct
board-level
Carpathian Mountains
Champagnole
charm off
clear panel key
comel-netherton syndrome(ichthyosis linearis cir-sumflexa)
consumer attitude
copper sulphate treatment
de-articulate
dealer brand
determination of nuclear density-moisture
developed curve
digital trunk
draunt
faf
falsehearted
Falstaffians
fan jumbo
farman gearing
filling trestle
fitting out quay
flavonutans
following device
gas ballast control
Ghost Festival
grain shovel
grass hook
Greiz
Grey Lady
gumtree
Gwatkin
hemisected
Heywood, Jasper
high-altitude parachute
hollow core door
homination
human elbows
hyalinisations
hypercriticize
ice-jack
imaginal disc
j.v
Jumu'ah
kingdom comes
loxocolpate
magnesio dolomite
magnetic-rod storage
mail bus
mangoro
mangrove snapper
mechanoresponse
Mycobacterium paratuberculosis
narrow orifice
nateq
neoptein
NRZM
osnabrck
over-the-air-station
paravions
partitionless
phalloid
pigment rubine R
plotted line
plurisyllable
presser disc
pro-social
proposer and seconder
pseudochromis luteus
rainsplash
rejuvenation of population
reotoxism
roentgenographer
run-the-gauntlet
short-cut calculation
Signorolli, Luca
slipping away
smarming
solidified soy(bean) sauce
static equilibrium value
stinkbags
thabo
Thumbs up!
toradol
torsion meter
transactivate
transparent flame
video service
wage fund doctrine
wranglin'
wyrne
zero-gross gradient
Zoi