It was a tough task because the FBI men were untrained and some had never fired a gun in anger.

这个任务极其艰巨，因为很多FBI探员从没有被训练过，也有很多根本不知道如何在盛怒之下开枪射击。

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Lincoln again swears that he's innocent, that the gun he had intended to use but never fired was still missing after he dumped it in a storm drain somewhere on the way home.

Lincoln再次发誓他是无辜的，在回家的路上，他将那支计划使用的、但从没开过火的枪扔到了泄洪沟里，现在还未找到。

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She had all her plans in place and, if everything worked perfectly, she would be fired and never have to deal with Phil again.

她有她的计划全部到位，如果一切都很好用，她会被解雇，永远不必再处理菲尔。

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Tiffany Braggs, 44, said she had never owned or fired a gun before she signed up for The Armed Citizen Project in Houston after her condominium management board warned residents of growing crime.

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Braun said he had never heard of a case in which the LAPD fired an officer who reported excessive force.

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Kipling came to prominence after the adventurers and privateers who had built the British empire (he himself never heard a shot fired in anger) and before the naked power-politics of the mid-20th century (he hated Nazism).

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