2006年VOA标准英语-Iraq Violence Draws Varying Reactions
时间：2019-01-08 作者：英语课 分类：2006年VOA标准英语（一月）
By Ben Gilbert
Baghdad
06 January 2006
Iraqi soldiers gathered in the U.S.-protected Green Zone Friday to celebrate Armed Forces Day. The parades and speeches come one day after suicide bombers 1 in two Iraqi cities killed more than 130 people. Iraqis are both angry, and resigned, to the seemingly unending cycle of violence.
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The Shi'ite Imam at the Sayid Edriss mosque 2 in Central Baghdad Friday told a story about how Imam Hussein, a holy figure in Shiite Islam, faced his tormentors with stoicism and grace.
Iraqi police and soldiers at site of a suicide car bombing
In the last five minutes of the sermon, the Imam related the story to the challenges that face Iraqi Shiite Muslims, one day after a suicide attack just outside the shrine 3 to Hussein killed dozens in Karbala.
The enemies of freedom, of the constitution, and of righteousness and peace, they don't like this new order in Iraq, he said. The tyrannical minority, he said, are trying to rule Iraq by fire and iron.
Shi'ite reaction to Thursday's attack has been mixed. Friday's sermon at the Sayid Edriss mosque did not call for any bloodletting, in line with the restraint Iraq's Shi'ite Spiritual leader, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, has urged in the face of attacks that seem aimed at provoking Shi'ite retaliation 4.
But Shi'ite political leaders have angrily accused the United States of keeping too tight a leash 5 on Iraqi Security Forces. American commanders have attempted to more tightly control the Shi'ite dominated Iraqi Interior Ministry 6 police forces after they found evidence of illegal detentions 7, torture and executions.
Some Shi'ite leaders have pledged that if the government can't protect the people, then the people have a right to defend themselves, comments that have been interpreted as a veiled threat to unleash 8 Shi'ite militias 9.
Sabah Noori, 50, a Shi'ite interviewed in Baghdad's upscale Karrada neighborhood, said he is not optimistic about the future.
Mr. Noori says it is the responsibility of the Iraqi government to offer security for the people, but right now he says he does not see the government offering security against terrorism.
Meanwhile, funerals were held Friday for many of those killed in the insurgent 10 violence, which also left 11 U.S. troops dead, one of the worst days for U.S. forces since the operation began.
- Enemy bombers carried out a blitz on the city. 敌军轰炸机对这座城市进行了突袭。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- The Royal Airforce sill remained dangerously short of bombers. 英国皇家空军仍未脱离极为缺乏轰炸机的危境。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- The mosque is a activity site and culture center of Muslim religion.清真寺为穆斯林宗教活动场所和文化中心。
- Some years ago the clock in the tower of the mosque got out of order.几年前，清真寺钟楼里的大钟失灵了。
- The shrine was an object of pilgrimage.这处圣地是人们朝圣的目的地。
- They bowed down before the shrine.他们在神龛前鞠躬示敬。
- retaliation against UN workers 对联合国工作人员的报复
- He never said a single word in retaliation. 他从未说过一句反击的话。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- I reached for the leash,but the dog got in between.我伸手去拿系狗绳，但被狗挡住了路。
- The dog strains at the leash,eager to be off.狗拼命地扯拉皮带，想挣脱开去。
- They sent a deputation to the ministry to complain.他们派了一个代表团到部里投诉。
- We probed the Air Ministry statements.我们调查了空军部的记录。
- Teachers may assign detention tasks as they wish and some detentions have been actually dangerous. 老师可能随心所欲指派关禁闭的形式，有些禁闭事实上很危险。
- Intimidation, beatings and administrative detentions are often enough to prevent them from trying again. 恐吓，拷打和行政拘留足以阻止请愿者二次进京的脚步。
- They hope to create allies to unleash against diseases,pests,and invasive species.他们希望创造出一些新群体来对付疾病、害虫和一些有侵害性的物种。
- Changing water levels now at times unleash a miasma of disease from exposed sewage.如今，大坝不时地改变水位，从暴露的污水释放出了疾病瘴气。
- The troops will not attempt to disarm the warring militias. 部队并不打算解除战斗中的民兵武装。 来自辞典例句
- The neighborhood was a battleground for Shiite and Sunni militias. 那里曾是什叶派和逊尼派武装分子的战场。 来自互联网