时间:2019-01-13 作者:英语课 分类:VOA标准英语2009年(四月)


英语课

One of the top American military commanders in Afghanistan said progress in the eastern part of the country is strong, but more effort is needed in the south, where Taliban forces have fought Afghan and coalition 1 troops to what he calls a "stalemate."
 
Major General Michael Tucker, chief of operations for U.S., NATO forces in Afghanistan


Speaking via satellite, the chief of operations for U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan, Major General Michael Tucker, told reporters at the Pentagon 80 per cent of insurgent 2 attacks are now happening in what the military calls Regional Command South.


"In RC [Regional Command] South we're at a stalemate. We just simply do not have enough forces to address the needs of the people down there, to set the conditions for governance to take hold. And so, the enemy obviously is taking advantage of that posture 3 that we're certainly going to be addressing here very shortly," he said.


General Tucker called southern Afghanistan the "center of gravity" for the Taliban. He said that is where most of the approximately 20,000 additional U.S. troops will go when they arrive in the coming months. The general said they will attack insurgent strongholds, and will also work closely with the Afghan government and its security forces to hold territory and begin to deliver services to the local people. He said fighting will likely increase as the U.S. troops arrive, the weather improves and the poppy harvest season ends.


He said there will also be an increased effort to control the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, using 51 new units of Afghan border police that are now being formed.


In contrast, General Tucker said progress made last year in eastern Afghanistan seems to be holding.


"We're approaching what you could actually cautiously term irreversible momentum 4 in the East," he said.


He said that was achieved through a combination of military and civilian 5 action, an approach he said will be replicated 6 in the south as the additional U.S. troops arrive. He also said he expects a significant increase in the U.S. civilian presence this year to help with economic development projects and the building of government capacity at the local and national levels.


General Tucker also praised efforts by Pakistan's military to close insurgent safe havens 7 on its side of the border. But he said more must be done.


"They are having an effect against the insurgency 8 in northwest provinces. We think they could do better. We think they could probably do less focus on the Indian border and more focus on the border with Afghanistan to help stem the sanctuary 9 that the insurgency enjoys there," he said.


General Tucker declined to say how long he thinks it will take to stabilize 10 Afghanistan and hand over control to its government and security forces. But he said the military command has set what he called "some three-to-five-year objectives" for eliminating insurgent safe havens, fully 11 establishing the Afghan government's authority and enabling its security forces to take control of their country.



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。
adj.叛乱的,起事的;n.叛乱分子
  • Faruk says they are threatened both by insurgent and government forces.法鲁克说,他们受到暴乱分子和政府军队的双重威胁。
  • The insurgent mob assembled at the gate of the city park.叛变的暴徒聚在市立公园的门口。
n.姿势,姿态,心态,态度;v.作出某种姿势
  • The government adopted an uncompromising posture on the issue of independence.政府在独立这一问题上采取了毫不妥协的态度。
  • He tore off his coat and assumed a fighting posture.他脱掉上衣,摆出一副打架的架势。
n.动力,冲力,势头;动量
  • We exploit the energy and momentum conservation laws in this way.我们就是这样利用能量和动量守恒定律的。
  • The law of momentum conservation could supplant Newton's third law.动量守恒定律可以取代牛顿第三定律。
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。
复制( replicate的过去式和过去分词 ); 重复; 再造; 再生
  • Later outplant the seedlings in a replicated permanent test plantation. 以后苗木出圃栽植成重复的永久性试验林。
  • The phage has replicated and the donor cells have lysed. 噬菌体已复制和给体细胞已发生裂解。
n.港口,安全地方( haven的名词复数 )v.港口,安全地方( haven的第三人称单数 )
  • Your twenty havens would back out at the last minute anyhow. 你那二十个避难所到了最后一分钟也要不认帐。 来自辞典例句
  • Using offshore havens to avoid taxes and investor protections. 使用海面的港口避免税和投资者保护。 来自互联网
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.圣所,圣堂,寺庙;禁猎区,保护区
  • There was a sanctuary of political refugees behind the hospital.医院后面有一个政治难民的避难所。
  • Most countries refuse to give sanctuary to people who hijack aeroplanes.大多数国家拒绝对劫机者提供庇护。
vt.(使)稳定,使稳固,使稳定平衡;vi.稳定
  • They are eager to stabilize currencies.他们急于稳定货币。
  • His blood pressure tended to stabilize.他的血压趋向稳定。
adv.完全地,全部地,彻底地;充分地
  • The doctor asked me to breathe in,then to breathe out fully.医生让我先吸气,然后全部呼出。
  • They soon became fully integrated into the local community.他们很快就完全融入了当地人的圈子。
学英语单词
-ica
Achārjlihi
acute angioneurotic edema
aldosteronopenia
Amherst, Jeffrey
Ashikita
automatic control unit
barbican
baron georges cuviers
base stations
baulk
bendixen
bumper book
bundle up
Chergui, Aftoût ech
comb-footed spider
course surface
creative activity
cupola bessemer electric process
desargination
dielectrocardiogram
donning
Dresdenware
etherobacillin
Ethylsuccinate
family Haemulidae
file event
filtering media
flexural critical speed
food conversion factor
functorial
gob line
heat seat
Hemangiomatous
high-Q inductor
hoaxes
iguacu
Jimmy Cagney
jobbish
Khamar-Daban, Khrebet
kneifert
left atrial wall plication
Lippman fringes
liver-blood deficiency
Lochalsh
machens
map color atlas
maritime radio telephone
mechanical selector
milliweak
Milverton
Morrisby speed test
motion with variable velocity
multifurcates
multiple causation
Myctophidae
nin
non-cyclically
nonintervisible stations
NSWTG
Nyhem
object snap setting
on blast of stove
organosilanol
Paphlagonian
paralogical
pathological gambling
petroleum transport
photoelectric sextant
player's fatigue
pressure conduit
previous carry
process specification
Rödje
scoir
simulator time
single chip computer
sirohydrochlorin
slip on a banana skin
soil nutrient bioavailability
spot cash transactions
statutory investment
steaming machine
sub-spaces
sweat rug
tesselatas
thickness sensor
time served worker
twofold degeneracy
umbelluliferous
unprofligate
urophan
Valentigney
Vers-en-Montagne
what the what
witch-doctors
xal
y-current
yank out
Yellow River
zaki
zoysia tenuifolias