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2022-10-19 01:27 作者:爱睡懒觉的Nick船长 | 我要投稿

Less gun violence
Related words:
- firearm violence 枪支暴力
- community-based violence 街区暴力
- intervention 干预
- policing and criminal justice strategies
- yield promising initial results 产生良好的初步结果
- homicde 杀人
- antecedent 先前的事情,前科
- firearm ownership 拥枪
- nonfatal firearm injuries and crimes 非致命伤害和案件
- police shooting 警察枪击
- intimate partner violence 家庭暴力
Vocabulary:
- commensurate(在重量,质量,重要性相等,相称的) with the problem
- unprecedented 史无前例的
- philanthropy 慈善机构
- preliminary 初步
- hamper = hinder = obstruct = curb 阻碍
- lapse 小错,过失
- prevalence 普遍性
- under-reported 漏报
- retain = keep 保持,留着
- fix the esclating problem 修正日益加剧的问题
- Overdue 来不及的
Nice sentence:
- (上升)There has been an unprecedented surge in research funding.
- (上升)Firearm violence began increasing in 2015, with a sharp rise between 2019 and 2020, and again in 2021, resulting in firearm homicide rates not seen in the US since the end of the US since the end of the crack cocaine epidemic(快克可卡因) of the early 1990s.
- (倍数的使用)Although these increase occured for nearly every demographic and geographic subgroup in the nation, they are highly concentrated among people who are Black, a group already facing firearm homicide violence rates 10 times greater than those of white people.
- It fails at measuring nonfatal firearm injuries and crimes, which consitute the majority of firearm violence. There is no system tracks hospitalizations for firearm injuries.