时间:2018-12-28 作者:英语课 分类:美国精神


英语课

 Explanation:


    The United States is full of many different kinds of people with many different experiences, education, and beliefs. But no matter how different they are, they all have certain rights (or things that people can do) in common, meaning that they all have the same basic rights. The freedom of expression and freedom of speech let people say whatever they want to, with only a few exceptions or limitations. Freedom of assembly lets people meet in groups. Freedom to petition 1 the government lets people try to change their government and ask it to help them. Freedom of worship lets people follow whatever religion they want to, or none at all. And finally, the right to bear arms lets people buy and have guns.
    That last right, the right to bear arms, is much more controversial (or is not easy for people to agree about) than the other rights. Because Americans have the right to bear (or have and use) arms (which include guns and other weapons), there are many guns owned by individual people for their own use in the United States. Some of these guns just stay in the homes or are used to hunt (or kill animals, usually to eat the meat). But other guns are used to hurt and kill people illegally. Some people believe that if we didn’t have the right to bear arms, there wouldn’t be as many lethal 2 (or deadly) shootings.
    When the Founding Fathers gave Americans the right to bear arms, people who fought in the militia 3 (or the army) were not professional soldiers. They were everyday people who helped to fight for their country and they had to bring their own guns. Many people think that the Founding Fathers gave Americans the right to bear arms so that our country could fight against its enemies (or the people and countries who are against our country). The Founding Fathers could not have imagined the situation today, where many people have guns and use them illegally. The people who think this way would like to get rid of (or not have) the right to bear arms.
    But other people strongly think that Americans should continue to have the right to bear arms. They think that having a gun is part of what it means to be an American. Because people on both sides of the issue have such strong beliefs, the right to bear arms continues to be very controversial.
 
问题:

What are two rights of everyone living in the United States?
Answer:
• Freedom of expression
• Freedom of speech
• Freedom of assembly
• Freedom to petition the government
• Freedom of worship
• The right to bear arms


1 petition
n.请愿书,申请书,诉状;v.请愿,正式请求
  • Thousands of citizens subscribed the petition.几千名公民在请愿书上签名。
  • The number of signers of the petition for a new school snowballed.要求增设新学校而签名的人像滚雪球似的越来越多。
2 lethal
adj.致死的;毁灭性的
  • A hammer can be a lethal weapon.铁锤可以是致命的武器。
  • She took a lethal amount of poison and died.她服了致命剂量的毒药死了。
3 militia
n.民兵,民兵组织
  • First came the PLA men,then the people's militia.人民解放军走在前面,其次是民兵。
  • There's a building guarded by the local militia at the corner of the street.街道拐角处有一幢由当地民兵团守卫的大楼。
学英语单词
4-Salicyloylmorpholine
a type right-of-way
acetyldigoxin
aethetic zoning
aluminum nitride
Amospan
angulus posterior pyramidis
antinociceptives
ateliosis
atom size
bagnio
bald cypresses
bald wheat
balloon fish
belaces
bendini
bhaktas
bioautography
bonxies
buttonlike
carleo
carved lacquer necklace
catheys val.
circulating pledge
cluster of engines
colour correction mask
compass platform
conceptual data
constant staticizer
corn islands
coronal helmet
direct condenser
double butt strap
double open end wrench black finished
electric power distribution panal
elks
exchange equipment
famulating
farandinical
fast-breeder reactor
Federal Reserve Systems
feet-on-the-ground
femas
fish-eating rat
flyhalf
folkeskoles
ghirardini
goes off with
hare's-foot
insulated boundary
Kanapoi
Kool-Aid
lambertianin
loop-locked
made himself at home
Marianologist
methyl silicone resins
microcampylopus laevigatum
moment of forces tending to capasize
negative scotoma
nephron(e)
non synchronized network
output and input
painstakenly
paleo-indians
papodums
paste food
ploughtail
polytetrafluoroethylene fibre reinforcement
prairie mallow
prescription drug advertising
pulsating energy
quadricellular
quiffed
refluxive
removing fire in the lung and resolving phlegm
sa-ree
saboor
schilz
scrimpiness
series statement
skinnis
SNQ
sorted ore
spinibulbar
stablish
suspension rod
tally shop
tap bill
tertiary plants
tetracyclic coordinate
tide-riding water level
troodont
Ungcheon
velocity derived by differential
wallowish
waste
Wehrbleck
wood former
working space register
working with command bars