2007-11-06, FBI Takedown

Miami, April 11th, 1986, one of the bloodiest¹ days in FBI history, special agents, including 25-year veteran Benjamin Grogan, and his young partner Jerry Dove, corner a car driven by two violent bank robbers. An intense gunbattle ensues. Over 100 rounds are fired. When the shooting stops, the two gunmen are dead, but so are special agents Grogan and Dove. Five other special agents are wounded in the fierce firefight. Neither one of the slain² special agents was wearing a bullet-proof vest that day. Soon after, new FBI regulations made vests mandatory³.

Rookie special agent Stephanie Sherick has to adjust to the dangers of the job. She's only been with the FBI for three months.

"It's not a traditional job that every little girl grows up thinking, you know, they wanna carry a gun and go kick down doors, and put handcuffs on people who are usually bigger than you. Most of the women that I know in this field have a little bit of spunk⁴ to them and they have a fire inside them that drives them."

After more than two decades as a special agent, Bill Godfrey's still driven to bring the bad guys to justice. He started out as a cop.

"After about five years I had made detective and I just decided⁶ that I wanted to work larger investigations⁷. And left to come with the FBI, I wanted to play on a higher level, so to speak."

Special agent Steve Veno came to the bureau three years ago after serving as an engineer in the army.

"Of the things that drew me into the FBI, one is the sense of being able to make a real difference. The other thing was the sense of team. The FBI as a team is something that really attracted me."

Shark, Godfrey and Veno are members of one of American's most elite⁸ federal law enforcement agencies. 12,000 special agents are spread across the nation at 56 field offices. Covering a population of 1.7 million people, non-fixed special agents like their counterparts across America bring some of humanity's nastiest individuals to justice.

Nobody is better at capturing dangerous criminals than the FBI. In 1950, the bureau invented the ten most wanted to enlist⁹ the public's help in tracking fugitives¹⁰. It worked, 94% of the individuals who've appeared on the list have been apprehended¹¹. Among the ten most wanted, were Ramzi Yousef ringleader of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing, Eric Rudolph the Atalantic Olympics bomber¹², the man who murdered Martin Luther King Jr., James Earl Ray and serial¹³ killer¹⁴ Ted⁵ Bundy.

1 bloodiest   

adj.血污的( bloody的最高级 )；流血的；屠杀的；残忍的

参考例句：

• The Russians were going to suffer their bloodiest defeat of all before Berlin. 俄国人在柏林城下要遭到他们的最惨重的失败。 来自辞典例句
• It was perhaps the bloodiest hour in the history of warfare. 这也许是战争史上血腥味最浓的1个小时。 来自互联网

2 slain   

杀死，宰杀，杀戮( slay的过去分词 )； (slay的过去分词)

参考例句：

• The soldiers slain in the battle were burried that night. 在那天夜晚埋葬了在战斗中牺牲了的战士。
• His boy was dead, slain by the hand of the false Amulius. 他的儿子被奸诈的阿缪利乌斯杀死了。

3 mandatory   

adj.命令的；强制的；义务的；n.受托者

参考例句：

• It's mandatory to pay taxes.缴税是义务性的。
• There is no mandatory paid annual leave in the U.S.美国没有强制带薪年假。

4 spunk   

n.勇气，胆量

参考例句：

• After his death,the soldier was cited for spunk.那位士兵死后因作战勇敢而受到表彰。
• I admired her independence and her spunk.我敬佩她的独立精神和勇气。

5 ted   

vt.翻晒，撒，撒开

参考例句：

• The invaders gut ted the village.侵略者把村中财物洗劫一空。
• She often teds the corn when it's sunny.天好的时候她就翻晒玉米。

6 decided   

adj.决定了的，坚决的；明显的，明确的

参考例句：

• This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
• There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。

7 investigations   

（正式的）调查( investigation的名词复数 )； 侦查； 科学研究； 学术研究

参考例句：

• His investigations were intensive and thorough but revealed nothing. 他进行了深入彻底的调查，但没有发现什么。
• He often sent them out to make investigations. 他常常派他们出去作调查。

8 elite   

n.精英阶层；实力集团；adj.杰出的，卓越的

参考例句：

• The power elite inside the government is controlling foreign policy.政府内部的一群握有实权的精英控制着对外政策。
• We have a political elite in this country.我们国家有一群政治精英。

9 enlist   

vt.谋取(支持等)，赢得；征募；vi.入伍

参考例句：

• They come here to enlist men for the army.他们来这儿是为了召兵。
• The conference will make further efforts to enlist the support of the international community for their just struggle. 会议必将进一步动员国际社会，支持他们的正义斗争。

10 fugitives   

n.亡命者，逃命者( fugitive的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• Three fugitives from the prison are still at large. 三名逃犯仍然未被抓获。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Members of the provisional government were prisoners or fugitives. 临时政府的成员或被捕或逃亡。 来自演讲部分

11 apprehended   

逮捕，拘押( apprehend的过去式和过去分词 )； 理解

参考例句：

• She apprehended the complicated law very quickly. 她很快理解了复杂的法律。
• The police apprehended the criminal. 警察逮捕了罪犯。

12 bomber   

n.轰炸机，投弹手，投掷炸弹者

参考例句：

• He flew a bomber during the war.他在战时驾驶轰炸机。
• Detectives hunting the London bombers will be keen to interview him.追查伦敦爆炸案凶犯的侦探们急于对他进行讯问。

13 serial   

n.连本影片，连本电视节目；adj.连续的

参考例句：

• A new serial is starting on television tonight.今晚电视开播一部新的电视连续剧。
• Can you account for the serial failures in our experiment?你能解释我们实验屡屡失败的原因吗？

14 killer   

n.杀人者，杀人犯，杀手，屠杀者

参考例句：

• Heart attacks have become Britain's No.1 killer disease.心脏病已成为英国的头号致命疾病。
• The bulk of the evidence points to him as her killer.大量证据证明是他杀死她的。