VOA标准英语2012--Kurdish Gains in Syria Rattle Turkey
时间：2019-01-13 作者：英语课 分类：VOA标准英语2012年(八月)
Kurdish Gains in Syria Rattle 1 Turkey
Climbing up to his fourth-floor balcony, Mehmet Bervan, a Kurd from Ceylanpinar in southeast Turkey, has a frontline view of the conflict playing out in Syria. His house lies close enough to the border fence to shout at family members on the other side.
Bervan hoped this large villa 2 would provide somewhere to live out a peaceful retirement 3. Week by week, he has watched the Syrian uprising descend 4 into civil war.
"Often we would see explosions, bombs going off, smoke rising into the air. It was very scary for us here, terrible," he said.
Bervan echoes the feelings of Kurds across the Middle East.
"Of course people would like to live together. These fences were not here before. We were all one family. Then they put up the fence and it separated us all... some families are divided, we have uncles over there, brothers over there on the Syrian side," he said.
The Syrian side of this town, known as Serekanye in Kurdish or Ras al-Ayn in Arabic, is now under the full control of Kurdish forces.
With government forces stretched as they fight the Free Syria Army rebels for control of the Syrian heartlands around Aleppo and Damascus, the Kurds now control vast swathes of the northeast adjacent to Turkey.
Turkey's fear is that the Kurds in Syria will give sanctuary 5 to Kurdish separatist fighters, known as the PKK.
In recent days Turkey has launched assaults on PKK strongholds, killing 6 at least 11 militants 7 and six soldiers. Tanks and heavy weapons also have been deployed 8 along the border in the Kurdish region.
Prime Minister Recip Tayyip Erdogan has warned Turkey will strike PKK fighters in Syria.
"While the Assad regime commits cruel massacres 9 in Syria, activities in northern Syria should be watched carefully," he said. "We can never overlook such developments threatening our security."
While Syrian Kurds have not fully 10 joined the uprising, Kurdish political factions 11 recently agreed to unite. Hafiz Abdurahman is a Syrian Kurdish human rights activist 12 who fled to Turkey last year. He says Turkish fears are misplaced.
"Kurds are not demanding their own state in Syria, they want a free Syria, and for a free Kurdish people to have their own rights after being under this totalitarian regime for such a long time," said Abdurahman.
In Syria, the Kurds are celebrating newfound freedoms. For Turkey, the Syrian crisis brings new complexities 13 to a long-standing conflict.
- The baby only shook the rattle and laughed and crowed.孩子只是摇着拨浪鼓，笑着叫着。
- She could hear the rattle of the teacups.她听见茶具叮当响。
- We rented a villa in France for the summer holidays.我们在法国租了一幢别墅消夏。
- We are quartered in a beautiful villa.我们住在一栋漂亮的别墅里。
- She wanted to enjoy her retirement without being beset by financial worries.她想享受退休生活而不必为金钱担忧。
- I have to put everything away for my retirement.我必须把一切都积蓄起来以便退休后用。
- I hope the grace of God would descend on me.我期望上帝的恩惠。
- We're not going to descend to such methods.我们不会沦落到使用这种手段。
- 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。
- Investors are set to make a killing from the sell-off.投资者准备清仓以便大赚一笔。
- Last week my brother made a killing on Wall Street.上个周我兄弟在华尔街赚了一大笔。
- The militants have been sporadically fighting the government for years. 几年来，反叛分子一直对政府实施零星的战斗。
- Despite the onslaught, Palestinian militants managed to fire off rockets. 尽管如此，巴勒斯坦的激进分子仍然发射导弹。
- Tanks have been deployed all along the front line. 沿整个前线已部署了坦克。
- The artillery was deployed to bear on the fort. 火炮是对着那个碉堡部署的。
- The time is past for guns and killings and massacres. 动不动就用枪、动不动就杀、大规模屠杀的时代已经过去了。 来自教父部分
- Numberless recent massacres were still vivid in their recollection. 近来那些不可胜数的屠杀，在他们的头脑中记忆犹新。
- 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。
- The gens also lives on in the "factions." 氏族此外还继续存在于“factions〔“帮”〕中。 来自英汉非文学 - 家庭、私有制和国家的起源
- rival factions within the administration 政府中的对立派别
- He's been a trade union activist for many years.多年来他一直是工会的积极分子。
- He is a social activist in our factory.他是我厂的社会活动积极分子。
- The complexities of life bothered him. 生活的复杂使他困惑。
- The complexities of life bothered me. 生活的杂乱事儿使我心烦。