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San Bernardino Shooting's Signs Have Faded, But Memories Remain Piercing 

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Now, it was one year ago today that a husband and wife entered a holiday party in San Bernardino, Calif., and opened fire, killing² 14 people, injuring another 22. It would later be called the worst act of terrorism in the United States since 9/11. One year later, federal investigators³ are still looking into this attack, the two shooters and their motives⁴. But in San Bernardino and the surrounding areas, people are trying to move on, as NPR's Nathan Rott reports.

NATHAN ROTT, BYLINE⁵: Sally Cardinale and Ray Britain sit down and remember the day they want to forget.

SALLY CARDINALE: I was in the restroom.

RAY BRITAIN: I was in the room.

CARDINALE: And I was washing my hands when I heard the first gunshots.

BRITAIN: We heard three to six loud bangs.

ROTT: But before they go any further...

CARDINALE: I'm sorry. Let me - can I put - pause? Did you want to...

ROTT: Cardinale looks down the table at another woman, another survivor⁶ who is clearly distraught.

CARDINALE: Do you want to be here for this? Is it too hard?

UNIDENTIFIED WOMAN: It's OK.

CARDINALE: OK.

ROTT: Cardinale pauses, gathers her thoughts and continues.

CARDINALE: So...

ROTT: The people that were there at the shooting last December are protective of each other like this. They know how reliving moments of that day can trigger the trauma⁷ of it all. For Cardinale, it's thinking about that bathroom in the Inland Regional Center.

CARDINALE: Everything I was thinking about when I was in that bathroom was I'm going to die and my kids are going to get separated because they have different fathers, and they're never going to see each other again, and I don't know what to do with that.

ROTT: For Britain, it's the little details that he remembers, the floor vibrating with each shot like an earthquake, the shock on his co-workers' faces, the shell casings.

BRITAIN: Just a rainbow of shell casings floating to the ground.

ROTT: Things he wants to forget but can't.

BRITAIN: The dreams keep a lot of it real.

ROTT: Britain and Cardinale are part of a larger group of survivors⁸ who are trying to get better from physical injuries and emotional trauma, a task they say made harder every time they see the shooters' faces in the news.

CARDINALE: We all know who the shooters were.

ROTT: Syed Rizwan Farook was a co-worker. He and his wife, Tashfeen Malik, were killed in a gun battle with police. But the investigation⁹ into them is ongoing¹⁰. There's also a trial pending¹¹ against Enrique Marquez Jr., a friend who prosecutors¹² say, among other things, helped provide materials for the plot. Another challenge for the survivors is an ongoing dispute with the county of San Bernardino. Cardinale and Britain say that treatments like counselling sessions, antidepressant medications and even surgeries aren't being approved by their workers' compensation program. The county, in an email, says it's doing all it can. But the dispute is just another impediment keeping people in the city of San Bernardino itself from moving forward.

PETE AGUILAR: I used to tell people my district was halfway¹³ between Los Angeles and Palm Springs.

ROTT: Pete Aguilar is the U.S. representative for the district that includes San Bernardino.

AGUILAR: After December 2, I could just tell people that I was from San Bernardino.

ROTT: And that was enough. People knew, like they do for Littleton or Newtown. Aguilar, though, is defiant¹⁴.

AGUILAR: We will not be defined by this tragedy.

ROTT: San Bernardino, by Aguilar's admission, is a work in progress. The city is facing severe economic problems and rising crime rates, troubles that plagued the town long before the attack. And that's where Brian Levin sees hope.

BRIAN LEVIN: We're a better community now even though we're hurt.

ROTT: Levin is a professor of criminal justice at Cal State University, San Bernardino. He's friends with the families of some of the victims and works with the community's faith leaders. And he says the attack brought all of them together at memorials and community meetings in a unity¹⁵ of shock and shared pain.

LEVIN: It will always be a part of our history. But here's the thing - so will the heroics of those police officers and first responders and medical staff and the grace of the families.

ROTT: Levin says that's what people should focus on this anniversary and in the others to follow. Nathan Rott, NPR News, San Bernardino.

1 browser   

n.浏览者

参考例句：

• View edits in a web browser.在浏览器中看编辑的效果。
• I think my browser has a list of shareware links.我想在浏览器中会有一系列的共享软件链接。

2 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。

3 investigators   

n.调查者，审查者( investigator的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• This memo could be the smoking gun that investigators have been looking for. 这份备忘录可能是调查人员一直在寻找的证据。
• The team consisted of six investigators and two secretaries. 这个团队由六个调查人员和两个秘书组成。 来自《简明英汉词典》

4 motives   

n.动机，目的( motive的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• to impeach sb's motives 怀疑某人的动机
• His motives are unclear. 他的用意不明。

5 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。

6 survivor   

n.生存者，残存者，幸存者

参考例句：

• The sole survivor of the crash was an infant.这次撞车的惟一幸存者是一个婴儿。
• There was only one survivor of the plane crash.这次飞机失事中只有一名幸存者。

7 trauma   

n.外伤，精神创伤

参考例句：

• Counselling is helping him work through this trauma.心理辅导正帮助他面对痛苦。
• The phobia may have its root in a childhood trauma.恐惧症可能源于童年时期的创伤。

8 survivors   

幸存者，残存者，生还者( survivor的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The survivors were adrift in a lifeboat for six days. 幸存者在救生艇上漂流了六天。
• survivors clinging to a raft 紧紧抓住救生筏的幸存者

9 investigation   

n.调查，调查研究

参考例句：

• In an investigation,a new fact became known, which told against him.在调查中新发现了一件对他不利的事实。
• He drew the conclusion by building on his own investigation.他根据自己的调查研究作出结论。

10 ongoing   

adj.进行中的，前进的

参考例句：

• The problem is ongoing.这个问题尚未解决。
• The issues raised in the report relate directly to Age Concern's ongoing work in this area.报告中提出的问题与“关心老人”组织在这方面正在做的工作有直接的关系。

11 pending   

prep.直到，等待…期间；adj.待定的；迫近的

参考例句：

• The lawsuit is still pending in the state court.这案子仍在州法庭等待定夺。
• He knew my examination was pending.他知道我就要考试了。

12 prosecutors   

检举人( prosecutor的名词复数 )； 告发人； 起诉人； 公诉人

参考例句：

• In some places,public prosecutors are elected rather than appointed. 在有些地方，检察官是经选举而非任命产生的。 来自口语例句
• You've been summoned to the Prosecutors' Office, 2 days later. 你在两天以后被宣到了检察官的办公室。

13 halfway   

adj.中途的，不彻底的，部分的；adv.半路地，在中途，在半途

参考例句：

• We had got only halfway when it began to get dark.走到半路，天就黑了。
• In study the worst danger is give up halfway.在学习上，最忌讳的是有始无终。

14 defiant   

adj.无礼的，挑战的

参考例句：

• With a last defiant gesture,they sang a revolutionary song as they were led away to prison.他们被带走投入监狱时，仍以最后的反抗姿态唱起了一支革命歌曲。
• He assumed a defiant attitude toward his employer.他对雇主采取挑衅的态度。

15 unity   

n.团结，联合，统一；和睦，协调

参考例句：

• When we speak of unity,we do not mean unprincipled peace.所谓团结，并非一团和气。
• We must strengthen our unity in the face of powerful enemies.大敌当前，我们必须加强团结。