时间:2019-01-09 作者:英语课 分类:2006年VOA标准英语(七月)


英语课

By Mike O'Sullivan
Ft. Irwin, California
24 July 2006
 
Deep in the California desert, the U.S. military is training soldiers in the techniques of fighting an urban insurgency 1. The National Training Center at Fort Irwin, where troops work with Iraqi-Americans in mock villages that look like the real thing.


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US soldiers train in mock Iraqi towns in the California desert
VOA Photo - M. O'Sullivan   
  
This seems to be an Iraqi town, complete with police station, mosque 2, school, and populations of Shi'ite and Sunni Muslims. It is one of 12 mock villages at this army base northeast of Los Angeles, on the edge of the barren region known as Death Valley.


Four to 5,000 soldiers come here each month for combat training.


Colonel Pete Bayer commands the 11th Armored Cavalry 3 Regiment 4, which instructs other troops in the skills they need for duty in Iraq or Afghanistan. "Our mission is to prepare the soldiers that are here today that will be in country in several months to survive their first contact. And that can be as simple as a young sergeant 5 leading an infantry 6 squad 7 on a dismounted patrol through a town and he encounters some of the local populace who are not violent, but they're agitated," he says.


The troops must not overreact, but must be ready to respond to the unexpected. The unexpected happens often at Ft. Irwin.



Lt. Pete Kalogiros
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Lieutenant 8 Pete Kalogiros leads a group of American soldiers who portray 9 insurgents 10 in one mock Iraqi village. "We get input 11 from Iraq. Guys call us, our people back here from Iraq, and tell us what's going on there. We're getting constant updates on what the tactics and the techniques are that the insurgents over there in Afghanistan, Iraq and the other countries, are using. And we incorporate that into our training," he says.


Iraqi-Americans work with the troops, portraying 12 villagers. This woman says the soldiers are curious. "You know, they're just trying to learn so much more about our culture. And that's what we're here for, to teach them," she says.



Sam Kalasho
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The troops are drilled in the rules of engagement, so they know when to shoot and when to hold their fire. Iraqi-American Sam Kalasho hopes they will exercise care in the stress and confusion of combat. "The main thing we try to teach them is to not kill innocent people, to respect the good people, to help the Iraqi people to stand up again and be free Iraq again," he says. "So what we do over here, we teach them everything they are going to find in Iraq. We do the same thing here. We meet with them. We give them a hard time. They give us a hard time. We want this. We ask for this. They help us. So always there is something wrong. There are mistakes. When it happens here, we can work it out. But when they go over there, we don't allow mistakes to happen."


The troops must be alert and sort out what is happening to separate those who pose a threat from innocent bystanders.


"There's a guy in the school with a gun," shouts one soldier.


There will be successes and failures, and John Wagstaff of the National Training Center says a soldier may die every day in his two weeks of training. "And the value to that is, by dying 14 days here, maybe you won't die once in Iraq, which is for real," he says.


The troops encounter the heat, apprehension 13 and uncertainty 14 that they will face in a few months in Iraq or Afghanistan.


The military hopes their time at the National Training Center will make them better prepared when they get there.



n.起义;暴动;叛变
  • And as in China, unrest and even insurgency are widespread. 而在中国,动乱甚至暴乱都普遍存在。 来自互联网
  • Dr Zyphur is part an insurgency against this idea. 塞弗博士是这一观点逆流的一部分。 来自互联网
n.清真寺
  • 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。
n.骑兵;轻装甲部队
  • We were taken in flank by a troop of cavalry. 我们翼侧受到一队骑兵的袭击。
  • The enemy cavalry rode our men down. 敌人的骑兵撞倒了我们的人。
n.团,多数,管理;v.组织,编成团,统制
  • As he hated army life,he decide to desert his regiment.因为他嫌恶军队生活,所以他决心背弃自己所在的那个团。
  • They reformed a division into a regiment.他们将一个师整编成为一个团。
n.警官,中士
  • His elder brother is a sergeant.他哥哥是个警官。
  • How many stripes are there on the sleeve of a sergeant?陆军中士的袖子上有多少条纹?
n.[总称]步兵(部队)
  • The infantry were equipped with flame throwers.步兵都装备有喷火器。
  • We have less infantry than the enemy.我们的步兵比敌人少。
n.班,小队,小团体;vt.把…编成班或小组
  • The squad leader ordered the men to mark time.班长命令战士们原地踏步。
  • A squad is the smallest unit in an army.班是军队的最小构成单位。
n.陆军中尉,海军上尉;代理官员,副职官员
  • He was promoted to be a lieutenant in the army.他被提升为陆军中尉。
  • He prevailed on the lieutenant to send in a short note.他说动那个副官,递上了一张简短的便条进去。
v.描写,描述;画(人物、景象等)
  • It is difficult to portray feelings in words.感情很难用言语来描写。
  • Can you portray the best and worst aspects of this job?您能描述一下这份工作最好与最坏的方面吗?
n.起义,暴动,造反( insurgent的名词复数 )
  • The regular troops of Baden joined the insurgents. 巴登的正规军参加到起义军方面来了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Against the Taliban and Iraqi insurgents, these problems are manageable. 要对付塔利班与伊拉克叛乱分子,这些问题还是可以把握住的。 来自互联网
n.输入(物);投入;vt.把(数据等)输入计算机
  • I will forever be grateful for his considerable input.我将永远感激他的大量投入。
  • All this information had to be input onto the computer.所有这些信息都必须输入计算机。
v.画像( portray的现在分词 );描述;描绘;描画
  • The artist has succeeded in portraying my father to the life. 那位画家把我的父亲画得惟妙惟肖。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Ding Ling was good at portraying figures through careful and refined description of human psychology. 《莎菲女士的日记》是丁玲的成名作,曾引起强烈的社会反响。 来自汉英文学 - 中国现代小说
n.理解,领悟;逮捕,拘捕;忧虑
  • There were still areas of doubt and her apprehension grew.有些地方仍然存疑,于是她越来越担心。
  • She is a girl of weak apprehension.她是一个理解力很差的女孩。
n.易变,靠不住,不确知,不确定的事物
  • Her comments will add to the uncertainty of the situation.她的批评将会使局势更加不稳定。
  • After six weeks of uncertainty,the strain was beginning to take its toll.6个星期的忐忑不安后,压力开始产生影响了。
学英语单词
actuating lever
ageing hardening
air launched cruise missile
Amphicoelia
approximation by operator
Atherolipin
athletic communication psychology
back out
baggage-rooms
beef-witted
bimorphic male
bottle track
brachyeardia
catch ratline
central tegmental tract
climatic stability theory
communication modem
counterguerilla
couplets on pillar
cylindruria
derne
design-construction team
dirty Sanchezes
Edlitz
electrolytic gravimetry
electronic inductivity
enterocardiovirus
Every bean has its black
exit jewel
fast loading
fault tolerant routing algorithm
feature-based design
fenestellae
filicanes
fluid state
full circle girder erecting crane
future light cone
grieve
histrionic
i-wived
identification of immature infant
Insiza
integrated trajectory system
issue in
kilogal meter
left internal spermatic vein
lifoes
low pump suction pressure
low-voltage capacitor discharge
make your bread
Mankayan
Mexican stand-off
National Association of Precancel Collectors
navarea warning service
nickums
nonmythic
North Fareham
octonare
Olorani
Oseen force
outcools
paciest
padbolt
panoptically
pinest
plane bed
plusia agnata staudinger
polytropic expansion
promotion and transfer
propositional dynamic logic
protanabol
quarter moon
radiatio
radio environment
regular epitaxy
road level
rotating contactor
sales representatives
sell't
shifting shaft
slugginess
soil bearing value
spice mixture
stinking rich
stitch line
subdermal vascular plexus free skin graft
subintrance
technically strong market
temperature expansion of pipes
terminal interchange
thyroid hormone evaluation
tongbok (dongbog)
trigyric
upbar
verbal creation
Vilna Gaon
vitamin b12 monocarboxylic acid
wako
Wiesentheid
wound heart wood
yahe (papua new guinea)
yoy