大学英语综合教程 第三册 3textB

[00:00.00]aim at                          take the plunge                 aggressive                       in one's favor
[00:05.49]瞄准            采取断然行动    侵略的          对某人有利
[00:10.97]head for                        depart                          confirm                          inflict
[00:15.70]向某处行进      去世            证实            使遭受
[00:20.43]circumstance                    advocate                        conclude
[00:25.44]环境            提倡            断定
[00:30.46]insure                          count on                        recommend                        impact
[00:35.33]确保            依靠            推荐            冲击力
[00:40.20]target                          draw the line at sth./doing sth break in/into                    on the line
[00:52.22]Many people in America own handguns.Some,like Gail Buchalter,buy a gun for self-defense.Others,like her friends,
[01:03.61]refuse to do so because they think that guns cause more problems than they solve.
[01:10.27]Gail used to share her friends'views,but eventually changed her mind.
[01:16.72]Read what she has to say and decide whether she made the right choice.
[01:23.04]WHY I BOUGHT A GUN               by Gall Buchalter
[01:28.50]I was raised in one of Manhattan's more desirable neighborhoods.My upper-middle-class background never involved guns.
[01:38.51]If my parents felt threatened,they simply put another lock on the door.
[01:44.86]2 By high school,I had traded in my cashmere sweaters for a black arm band.I marched for Civil Rights,
[01:54.36]shunned Civil Defense drills and protested the Vietnam War.It was easy being 18 and a peacenik.
[02:04.66]I wasn't raising an 11-year-old child then.
[02:09.44]3 (1)Today,I am typical of the women whom gun manufacturers have been aiming at as potential buyers
[02:17.98]--and one of the millions who have taken the plunge.
[02:22.73]4 I began questioning my pacifist beliefs one Halloween night in Phoenix,where I had moved when I married