Ms Giffords said it was time for politicians to be bold.

吉福·德斯说，政客们到来非得拿出勇气的时候了。

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He had met Ms Giffords before and been offended by her failure to answer a nonsensical question he had put to her.

他之前与Giffords小姐见过，并因为她没有回答他的那些荒谬的问题而生气。

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Ms Giffords was shot in the head in Tucson, Arizona on Saturday in an attack in which six people were killed, including a nine-year-old girl.

吉佛兹于周六在亚利桑那州的图桑头部中枪，6人在袭击中遇难，包括一名9岁的女孩。

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"She's holding her own, " said Michael Lemole, a neurosurgeon who operated on Ms Giffords.

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Ms Giffords narrowly survived the shooting spree by a gunman in Tucson, Arizona, that killed six people.

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But they have found papers at his home which appear to make reference to plans to assassinate Ms Giffords.

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