联合国安理会投票批准限制ISIS资金来源
时间：2019-01-12 作者：英语课 分类：2015年VOA慢速英语(十二)月
AS IT IS 2015-12-20 UN Security Council Votes to Restrict IS Funding 联合国安理会投票批准限制ISIS资金来源
The United Nations Security Council approved measures Thursday to restrict how the Islamic State militant 1 group raises money.
The 15-nation council will expand a resolution against al-Qaida to the Islamic State group. The group has seized large areas of Syria and Iraq, and it is trying to increase its strength in Libya.
Samantha Power is the U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations. Wednesday, she told reporters “this resolution…will be a new piece of international law.”
She said the resolution would require countries to do more to stop the money being sent to terrorists.
Power says nations have limited the group’s funding somewhat. But she says the group still trades cultural objects and smuggles 3 oil. She notes that the group demands money from people who live in the areas the terrorists occupy. But she says “this is a problem that we should be able to solve.”
She said if an effort is made to attack the Islamic State group’s funding sources and assets “in an intensified 4 and even more aggressive way, that is going to have a material effect on their ability” to carry out attacks.
Words in This Story
piece – n. an amount that is cut or separated from a larger section of something
smuggle 2 – v. to move (someone or something) from one country into another illegally and secretly
assets – n. something that is owned by a person, company, etc. -- usually plural
- Some militant leaders want to merge with white radicals.一些好斗的领导人要和白人中的激进派联合。
- He is a militant in the movement.他在那次运动中是个激进人物。
- Friends managed to smuggle him secretly out of the country.朋友们想方设法将他秘密送出国了。
- She has managed to smuggle out the antiques without getting caught.她成功将古董走私出境，没有被逮捕。
- Violence intensified during the night. 在夜间暴力活动加剧了。
- The drought has intensified. 旱情加剧了。 来自《简明英汉词典》