时间:2018-12-02 作者:英语课 分类:CNN美国有线新闻2017年10月


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First, though, a major advancement 1 in the international fight against the ISIS terrorist group. ISIS stands for Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. That's what they wanted and that's where most of their territory was.


In 2014, ISIS declared Raqqa, a city in Northern Syria, to be its capital. And since June of this year, an international coalition 2 of fighters supported by the U.S. had been battling to kick ISIS out. And on Tuesday, they announced that ISIS had lost control of Raqqa.


The battle is not completely over. There are still some pockets of fighting in the city. Thousands of civilians 4 have been left homeless. And Save the Children, an international rights organization, says refugee camps in the area are stretched beyond their limits. But experts say the defeat of ISIS in Raqqa is another example of how the terrorists are losing their grip on this region, even if their survivors 5 regroup and reappear somewhere else.


NICK PATON WALSH, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: They once dubbed 6 it "Execution Square". But this is now where ISIS met its end.


Once home to public beheadings now circled slowly by U.S. supplied Humvees, the Kurdish forces who made swift progress kicking ISIS out of Raqqa, their former self-declared capital.


The fight has been total, ghastly, destructive beyond imagination, as this exclusive drone pictures filmed Monday show. This is where ISIS used to plot attacks on the West, but now made their very final, last stand, some of its last foreign fighters likely dying and its bombed out skeleton.


ISIS late Monday lost this, the national hospital, where a few dozen surrendered. The civilian 3 human shields they held there also rescued. The U.S.-backed fighters declared major operations over here late Tuesday, the last time that ISIS's name was writ 7 large over a major city.


Nick Paton Walsh, CNN.


AZUZ: On our September 26th show, which you can find our archives at CNN10.com, we detailed 8 the Trump 9 administration's new rules that restrict people from eight countries from entering the U.S. Yesterday, a federal judge in Hawaii blocked the new travel ban a day before it was scheduled to take effect. The judge wrote that the executive order, quote, discriminates 10 based on nationality.


The White House said the ban was based on, quote, grave national security concerns. The Justice Department plans to appeal the ruling.


A CNN legal analyst 11 says it's almost certain that this case will be reviewed soon by the U.S. Supreme 12 Court.



1 advancement
n.前进,促进,提升
  • His new contribution to the advancement of physiology was well appreciated.他对生理学发展的新贡献获得高度赞赏。
  • The aim of a university should be the advancement of learning.大学的目标应是促进学术。
2 coalition
n.结合体,同盟,结合,联合
  • The several parties formed a coalition.这几个政党组成了政治联盟。
  • Coalition forces take great care to avoid civilian casualties.联盟军队竭尽全力避免造成平民伤亡。
3 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。
4 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。
5 survivors
幸存者,残存者,生还者( survivor的名词复数 )
  • The survivors were adrift in a lifeboat for six days. 幸存者在救生艇上漂流了六天。
  • survivors clinging to a raft 紧紧抓住救生筏的幸存者
6 dubbed
v.给…起绰号( dub的过去式和过去分词 );把…称为;配音;复制
  • Mathematics was once dubbed the handmaiden of the sciences. 数学曾一度被视为各门科学的基础。
  • Is the movie dubbed or does it have subtitles? 这部电影是配音的还是打字幕的? 来自《简明英汉词典》
7 writ
n.命令状,书面命令
  • This is a copy of a writ I received this morning.这是今早我收到的书面命令副本。
  • You shouldn't treat the newspapers as if they were Holy Writ. 你不应该把报上说的话奉若神明。
8 detailed
adj.详细的,详尽的,极注意细节的,完全的
  • He had made a detailed study of the terrain.他对地形作了缜密的研究。
  • A detailed list of our publications is available on request.我们的出版物有一份详细的目录备索。
9 trump
n.王牌,法宝;v.打出王牌,吹喇叭
  • He was never able to trump up the courage to have a showdown.他始终鼓不起勇气摊牌。
  • The coach saved his star player for a trump card.教练保留他的明星选手,作为他的王牌。
10 discriminates
分别,辨别,区分( discriminate的第三人称单数 ); 歧视,有差别地对待
  • The new law discriminates against lower-paid workers. 这条新法律歧视低工资的工人。
  • One test governs state legislation that discriminates against interstate commerce. 一个检验约束歧视州际商业的州立法。 来自英汉非文学 - 环境法 - 环境法
11 analyst
n.分析家,化验员;心理分析学家
  • What can you contribute to the position of a market analyst?你有什么技能可有助于市场分析员的职务?
  • The analyst is required to interpolate values between standards.分析人员需要在这些标准中插入一些值。
12 supreme
adj.极度的,最重要的;至高的,最高的
  • It was the supreme moment in his life.那是他一生中最重要的时刻。
  • He handed up the indictment to the supreme court.他把起诉书送交最高法院。
学英语单词
abbotess
aleurodiscus mirabilis
almontes
amplexion
anti-p
antidarkening
anxious decade
areologists
aynor
babies in the eyes
backing shell
ballerina skirt model
barkovsky
basic equalizer
bed plane
bed-sheet
Berdychiv
bicarinatus
biconditional flow
bilge sounding pipe
Bostrichoidea
brain-machine interface
broad buckler-fern
cathode sputtering atomizer
ceiba
Chorex
chupati
chylectasia
contra-rational
cool-downtime
cupressaceous
dance step
dermatotoxic
diurnal acceleration
dry backfill sand
dustcart
Ecumenical Patriarchs
entertainment innovation
error absolute
ethanolamine soap
eye of the blind
former crime
gasters
girder and rail mill
goose-egg
gyroscopic angular deviation detector
Heiduc
heteropic chromosome
ICMP bug
impact dynamics of space debris
income bond
insulated oiling pole
internal mammary vein
khioss
Larsnes
lauter-mash
legal pad
Loranthus delavayi
lshow
lutenist
man-hour rate
minimum weight tree
Mycetophilidae
Northington
one-matches
optical attenuator
oumas
overhauling check
oxide film
parts reliability
Peperomia dindygulensis
Perform Salvage Operations with Due Care
playtes
positive transfer
power mixer
prorogued
rawhide gear
recombination of electron and hole
register of stock transfers
repari specification
rivet set
rosie o'donnell
Sadoga-shima
shawnee
shed hand
silicothermic process
spring chicken
stationwagon
Taurine-Neptunus
threephase starter
treasury stock surplus
trigonal prism of the first order
unnervings
unrationalized
unremorsefulness
ventilated rib
vertical and landing takeoff
warranty of merchantability
weak light flux
weathercondition
wns