美国国家公共电台 NPR Firearms Museum Focuses On Gun Safety, History And Culture

 

LEILA FADEL, HOST:

Tucked away in the northwest corner of Wyoming is one of the largest gun collections in the world. The Cody Firearms Museum just got a makeover. It's moved away from being a monument to guns and toward being an educational space on gun safety, history and culture. Wyoming Public Radio's Kamila Kudelska takes us on a tour.

KAMILA KUDELSKA, BYLINE¹: The Cody Firearms Museum is located at the Buffalo² Bills Center of the West alongside four other museums and near the east entrance to Yellowstone National Park. So often, people just happen upon the firearms museum. That was the case for Kim Cato and her family visiting from Idaho.

KIM CATO: We were not planning to go in here.

KUDELSKA: Kim says that's because of her own previous experience with the museum.

KIM CATO: I was here as a child. And my dad dragged me through. And it was just rows and rows of guns. And it was just not exciting.

KUDELSKA: But now, the recently renovated³ museum seemed more intriguing⁴. So Kim and her husband Kevin, their 12-year-old son Tyson and 15-year-old daughter Jillian take a tour with Ashley Hlebinsky, the curator.

ASHLEY HLEBINSKY: So we're going to start right here. A lot of times when you talk about firearms history, you think about the history of technology. But it is also a history of people. And with that history of people, it can be good, bad and indifferent.

KUDELSKA: In an effort to address the good, the bad and the indifferent, the first gallery is focused on basic firearm safety, especially where kids are involved.

HLEBINSKY: And then we walk up to an interactive⁵ table. And the first thing you see is, do you know what to do if they're kind of out in the real world, and they encounter a firearm?

KUDELSKA: A set of rules are mounted at a height designed to be read by children. They include stop, don't touch the firearm, get an adult or a law enforcement officer. Kim finds this really helpful.

KIM CATO: We had an experience where a child climbed over the fence and handed my son a gun and - didn't you try to shoot it?

TYSON CATO: No. I didn't even touch it.

KIM CATO: What?

KUDELSKA: Some of the details are murky⁶. Nothing bad happened. But it was scary for the family.

KIM CATO: Tyson, are you aware of these rules now?

TYSON: Yes.

KUDELSKA: This is the kind of conversation the museum is trying to foster. Next, Hlebinsky takes the Catos to the "Cost Of War" exhibit.

HLEBINSKY: And as we're walking into this gallery, really, the first thing you kind of encounter is this big graphic⁷. And some of the scenes that you see - you see the gravestones at Arlington Cemetery⁸, as well as some children affected⁹ by war.

KUDELSKA: They also hear about Audie Murphy. He's the World War II veteran and actor who broke a taboo¹⁰ of the time by talking about his experience with what we would now call post-traumatic stress disorder¹¹. And the family learns, during the Civil War, some arms were produced by enslaved peoples. And finally, the Catos stand in front of a big, black-and-white mural. It was produced by the artist known as JR in partnership¹² with Time Magazine. Fifteen-year-old Jillian Cato gives her take.

JILLIAN CATO: It's a big group of people. Many of them have signs. It seems to be a debate, a huge debate. One side is anti-gun, and the other side is pro-gun rights.

KUDELSKA: As the family looks at the mural, the father Kevin says they aren't really gun enthusiasts¹³.

KEVIN CATO: I'm not into killing¹⁴ anything. And, you know, there's no reason to have a gun, I guess, if you're not going to try to kill something. I have really enjoyed, though, and look forward to doing a little more research into the history of the guns and how they affect warfare¹⁵.

KUDELSKA: That's the goal of the new Cody Firearms Museum, not to win people over but to help them learn and think about gun culture. For NPR News, I'm Kamila Kudelska in Cody, Wyo.

1 byline   

n.署名；v.署名

参考例句：

• His byline was absent as well.他的署名也不见了。
• We wish to thank the author of this article which carries no byline.我们要感谢这篇文章的那位没有署名的作者。

2 buffalo   

n.(北美)野牛；(亚洲)水牛

参考例句：

• Asian buffalo isn't as wild as that of America's. 亚洲水牛比美洲水牛温顺些。
• The boots are made of buffalo hide. 这双靴子是由水牛皮制成的。

3 renovated   

翻新，修复，整修( renovate的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• He renovated his house. 他翻修了房子。
• The house has been renovated three years earlier. 这所房子三年前就已翻新。

4 intriguing   

adj.有趣的；迷人的v.搞阴谋诡计(intrigue的现在分词)；激起…的好奇心

参考例句：

• These discoveries raise intriguing questions. 这些发现带来了非常有趣的问题。
• It all sounds very intriguing. 这些听起来都很有趣。 来自《简明英汉词典》

5 interactive   

adj.相互作用的，互相影响的，（电脑）交互的

参考例句：

• The psychotherapy is carried out in small interactive groups.这种心理治疗是在互动的小组之间进行的。
• This will make videogames more interactive than ever.这将使电子游戏的互动性更胜以往。

6 murky   

adj.黑暗的，朦胧的；adv.阴暗地，混浊地；n.阴暗；昏暗

参考例句：

• She threw it into the river's murky depths.她把它扔进了混浊的河水深处。
• She had a decidedly murky past.她的历史背景令人捉摸不透。

7 graphic   

adj.生动的，形象的，绘画的，文字的，图表的

参考例句：

• The book gave a graphic description of the war.这本书生动地描述了战争的情况。
• Distinguish important text items in lists with graphic icons.用图标来区分重要的文本项。

8 cemetery   

n.坟墓，墓地，坟场

参考例句：

• He was buried in the cemetery.他被葬在公墓。
• His remains were interred in the cemetery.他的遗体葬在墓地。

9 affected   

adj.不自然的，假装的

参考例句：

• She showed an affected interest in our subject.她假装对我们的课题感到兴趣。
• His manners are affected.他的态度不自然。

10 taboo   

n.禁忌，禁止接近，禁止使用；adj.禁忌的；v.禁忌，禁制，禁止

参考例句：

• The rude words are taboo in ordinary conversation.这些粗野的字眼在日常谈话中是禁忌的。
• Is there a taboo against sex before marriage in your society?在你们的社会里，婚前的性行为犯禁吗？

11 disorder   

n.紊乱，混乱；骚动，骚乱；疾病，失调

参考例句：

• When returning back,he discovered the room to be in disorder.回家后，他发现屋子里乱七八糟。
• It contained a vast number of letters in great disorder.里面七零八落地装着许多信件。

12 partnership   

n.合作关系，伙伴关系

参考例句：

• The company has gone into partnership with Swiss Bank Corporation.这家公司已经和瑞士银行公司建立合作关系。
• Martin has taken him into general partnership in his company.马丁已让他成为公司的普通合伙人。

13 enthusiasts   

n.热心人，热衷者( enthusiast的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• A group of enthusiasts have undertaken the reconstruction of a steam locomotive. 一群火车迷已担负起重造蒸汽机车的任务。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Now a group of enthusiasts are going to have the plane restored. 一群热心人计划修复这架飞机。 来自新概念英语第二册

14 killing   

n.巨额利润；突然赚大钱，发大财

参考例句：

• Investors are set to make a killing from the sell-off.投资者准备清仓以便大赚一笔。
• Last week my brother made a killing on Wall Street.上个周我兄弟在华尔街赚了一大笔。

15 warfare   

n.战争(状态)；斗争；冲突

参考例句：

• He addressed the audience on the subject of atomic warfare.他向听众演讲有关原子战争的问题。
• Their struggle consists mainly in peasant guerrilla warfare.他们的斗争主要是农民游击战。