美国有线新闻 CNN 2015-12-30
时间：2018-12-02 作者：英语课 分类：CNN美国有线新闻2015年12月
英语课
November 29th,a bustling 1 market in the Syrian city of Rehub. In one moment,customers were buying fruits and vegetables. The next moment, an explosion. Witnesses say the bodies were mutilated, decapitated. That's according to Amnasty International,studying videos like this one which CNN can not independently verify.
We have no terrorists here.May God curse the Russians.Amnasty says this is the work of Russian military indiscriminately bombing a civilian 2 area.
Three missile hit that area. Forty-nine civilians 3 were killed, and there was no evidence of a military target.
A new report from Amnasty International says the Russians have killed at least two hundred civilians in Syria since the military campaign began in september, striking homes, medical facilities and this mosque 4 with unguided bombs.
Those attacks may amount to war crimes because they appear to be attacks directly hitting civilians or civilian objects.
And being disputed by the Russian government, but Amnasty cites videos like this one as evidence that Russia is dropping cluster bombs which contain dozens of smaller bombs.
When they fall, sub , little bomblets are left behind and in many cases, don't explode. So they effectively become landmines 5 for,and in many conflicts where they have been used, Childrens and other civilians have picked them up in months and years to come.
Amnasty does not accuse Russians of purposely targetting civilians, and Amnasty officials telling CNN they may have got bad intelligence on some targets. Analists say the Cr developed techniques of waging war that don't take civilians into account as much as other nations do.
they do not put much though into how to avoid civilian casualties and they are willing to accept the collateral 6 damage that would argue looking at how it fought historically. It's about encircling and bombarding. And when encircle and bombard,civilians would get killed.
In a Moscow theatre in 2002 and at a school in Besla Russia in 2004,terrorists held hundreds of innocent people hostages. In each case, Russian forces went in and killed almost all of the attackers. But many of the hostages, including nearly 200 children at the school also died.
There is a view that destroying the enemy is your first priority. But tonight Russian officials are responding forcefully and very angrily to the Amnasty report. The Russian defence minister called the report groundless, full of cliches and lies. Russians deny using cluster bombs.They say their airstrike are pinpoint,only hitting terrorists .And they say it is not just them, pointing out that US forces bombed innocent civilians as well in the fight against ISIS.
1 bustling
adj.喧闹的
- The market was bustling with life. 市场上生机勃勃。
- This district is getting more and more prosperous and bustling. 这一带越来越繁华了。
2 civilian
adj.平民的，民用的，民众的
- There is no reliable information about civilian casualties.关于平民的伤亡还没有确凿的信息。
- He resigned his commission to take up a civilian job.他辞去军职而从事平民工作。
3 civilians
平民，百姓( civilian的名词复数 )； 老百姓
- the bloody massacre of innocent civilians 对无辜平民的血腥屠杀
- At least 300 civilians are unaccounted for after the bombing raids. 遭轰炸袭击之后，至少有300名平民下落不明。
4 mosque
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。
5 landmines
潜在的冲突； 地雷，投伞水雷( landmine的名词复数 )
- The treaty bans the use production and trade of landmines. 该条约规定，禁止使用地雷相关产品及贸易。
- One of the weapon's of special concern was landmines. 在引起人们特别关注的武器中就有地雷。
6 collateral
adj.平行的；旁系的；n.担保品
- Many people use personal assets as collateral for small business loans.很多人把个人财产用作小额商业贷款的抵押品。
- Most people here cannot borrow from banks because they lack collateral.由于拿不出东西作为抵押，这里大部分人无法从银行贷款。