(单词翻译:单击)
听力文本
According to the FBI, background checks for gun sales reached a record high on Black Friday, increasing by 5 percent from last year.
据美国联邦调查局报告，黑色星期五枪支销售背景调查创历史新高，与去年相比升高百分之五。
The agency processed over 185,000 background checks on Friday, equal to about two checks per second.
周五该机构处理了185,000次背景调查，相当于每秒2次检查。
But this number doesn't account for all possible gun sales, since the system doesn't check people who buy firearms through unlicensed dealers like gun shows.
但这个数字并不能说明所有可能的枪支销售，因为该系统不能检查人们通过无执照经销商购买的枪支。
Obviously, the big Black Friday deals help, but the co-director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Gun Policy and Research told The New York Times the fear of mass shootings and day-to-day violence drives up sales.
很明显，黑色星期五促进了交易，但霍普金斯枪支政策研究中心主任告诉纽约时报，对大规模枪击事件和日常暴力的担忧助长了枪支销售。
ShootingTracker maintains a database online that says we've had more shootings than days this year, but its definition of a mass shooting is when four or more people are shot, but not necessarily killed. That's a broader definition than other agencies.
ShootingTracker维护在线数据库，说我们今年发生了更多的枪击事件，其中对大规模枪击事件的定义是四个或更多的人被击中，但不一定要被枪杀。这是一个比其他机构更广泛的定义。
Before this year, the highest number of background checks conducted on a single day was December 21, 2012, a week after the deadly Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting.
今年之前最高数量的背景调查是在2012年12月21日，桑迪胡克小学致命枪击事件一周后。
Many politicians, including President Obama, have spoken out about tighter gun control measures, calling for greater action.
许多政界人士，包括奥巴马总统都表明要推行更为严格的枪支管制措施，呼吁采取更大的行动。
In the United States, we have the power to do more to prevent what is just a regular process of gun homicides.
在美国，我们有能力去做更多，阻止普通的持枪杀人事件。
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词汇解析
1、process
过程；进程
There was total agreement to start the peace process as soon as possible.
全体一致同意尽快开始和平进程。
They decided to spread the building process over three years.
他们决定用3年时间建成。
（生物或化学的）变化过程
It occurs in elderly men, apparently as part of the ageing process.
这种情况出现在老年人当中，显然是衰老过程的一部分。
The regularity with which this occurs suggests that the process is genetically determined.
这种现象出现的规律性表明这个过程是由基因决定的。
处理（信息）
facilities to process the data, and the right to publish the results.
处理数据的设备和公开其结果的权利
The information gathered by the telescopes will be processed by computers.
通过望远镜获得的信息将由计算机进行处理。
2、account for
（数量或比例上）占
Computers account for 5% of the country's commercial electricity consumption.
计算机占去该国商业用电的5%。
为…提出理由;对…作出说明
How do you account for the company's alarmingly high staff turnover?
你怎么解释这家公司高得令人忧虑的人员流动率？
He said only 200 of the train's 600 passengers had been accounted for.
他说火车上的600名乘客中仅有200名乘客的信息得已查明。
杀死；消灭；打败
In the first ten days of May our squadron accounted for at least seven enemy aircraft.
5月的头10天里我们中队至少报销了7架敌机。
In the final they accounted for Brentford by three goals to two.
决赛时他们以3比2击败了布伦特福德队。
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