CCTV9英语新闻：奥巴马宣布计划今年底在阿富汗保留约9800名美军
时间：2019-01-05 作者：英语课 分类：CCTV9英语新闻2014年05月
U.S. President Barack Obama has announced a plan to greatly reduce the current U.S. force of 32,000 now in Afghanistan, leaving only 9,800 troops there at the end of this year.
Those troops would focus on training Afghan security forces and on counter-terrorism efforts.
Over the course of 2015, the nearly 10,000 troops would be cut in half. And those remaining forces would largely be withdrawn 1 by the end of 2016, with fewer than 1,000 remaining behind to staff a security office in Kabul.
Obama said that the presence of U.S. troops is tied to the signing of the Bilateral 2 Security Agreement with Afghanistan. While current Afghan President Hamid Karzai has declined to sign the agreement, Obama says either of the two candidates seeking to replace him would give his approval.
Obama said Afghanistan will not be a perfect place and it is not up to the U.S. to make it one. He added that Afghan security forces had shown that they are capable of defending their country.
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收听单词发音 1
withdrawn
vt.收回；使退出；vi.撤退，退出
参考例句：
Our force has been withdrawn from the danger area.我们的军队已从危险地区撤出。
All foreign troops should be withdrawn to their own countries.一切外国军队都应撤回本国去。
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bilateral
adj.双方的，两边的，两侧的
参考例句：
They have been negotiating a bilateral trade deal.他们一直在商谈一项双边贸易协定。
There was a wide gap between the views of the two statesmen on the bilateral cooperation.对双方合作的问题，两位政治家各自所持的看法差距甚大。
- Our force has been withdrawn from the danger area.我们的军队已从危险地区撤出。
- All foreign troops should be withdrawn to their own countries.一切外国军队都应撤回本国去。