The fire did not destroy all the equipment at the gun factory.

VOA: special.2009.08.20

If you squeeze the trigger of a gun really hard and really fast, it doesn't fire any faster or harder than if you just squeezed it gently.

快速有力地扣动扳机,并不比你轻扣扳机,射出的更加快速或更加有力

耶鲁公开课 - 心理学导论课程节选

"I cannot fire the first gun of the war."

VOA: special.2009.08.13

But men like 85-year-old Don Seki, who lost an arm to a burst of machine-gun fire, play-down his own heroism in helping to rescue the "Lost Battalion."

VOA: standard.2009.11.04

Sounds of heavy and light machine gun fire rattled Maiduguri as Nigeria's army pounded suspected hideouts of the Islamic rebels in a bid to flush out remnants of the militant Boko Haram sect.

VOA: standard.2009.07.30