VOA标准英语2009年-Israeli Troops Invade Gaza, Fighting Continues
时间：2019-01-13 作者：英语课 分类：VOA标准英语2009年(一月)
Smoke rises during an Israeli army operation in the Gaza Strip as seen from the Israel side of the border with Gaza, Sunday, 04 Jan. 2009
Israeli soldiers crossed the border under cover of darkness Saturday night and fanned out across areas of the northern Gaza Strip.
Troops and tanks are reported to have moved into positions, including around Gaza City. Tanks are reported dug in at some former Israeli settlements in Gaza and the military action is reported to have effectively cut the Gaza Strip in two between north and south.
Israel used its infantry 3, tanks, artillery 4, war planes and navy to hit more than 40 targets just overnight.
Speaking before an Israeli cabinet meeting Sunday, Prime Minister Ehud Olmert said the decision to launch the ground offensive was made Friday.
Israeli soldiers evacuate 5 a soldier, injured during an Israeli army operation in Gaza, into a hospital in Beer Sheva, southern Israel, early Sunday, 04 Jan. 2009
Mr. Olmert said the decision was not made lightly and only after months of waiting and after hopes for calm were dashed.
Mr. Olmert vowed 6 that the government did everything before deciding on this operation. "It was unavoidable," he said.
Israel has said all along it had no choice but to launch military action after talks with Hamas on extending a cease-fire broke down in December and militants stepped up rocket fire against southern Israel.
Israel initially 7 launched air strikes just over a week ago, pounding targets it said were linked to Hamas and its infrastructure 8 in Gaza.
But, Hamas has remained defiant 9, warning that it would turn Gaza into a graveyard 10 for the Israelis.
Palestinian medics carry a child injured in Israeli shelling into Kamal Adwan Hospital in Beit Lahiya, northern Gaza Strip, Sunday, 04 Jan. 2009
Casualties are reported on both sides, including Israeli soldiers, Hamas fighters and Palestinian civilians 11, including children.
According to tallies 12 by medical officials in Gaza the Palestinian death toll from Israeli military operations is now around 500.
- 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。
- The hailstone took a heavy toll of the crops in our village last night.昨晚那场冰雹损坏了我们村的庄稼。
- The war took a heavy toll of human life.这次战争夺去了许多人的生命。
- The infantry were equipped with flame throwers.步兵都装备有喷火器。
- We have less infantry than the enemy.我们的步兵比敌人少。
- This is a heavy artillery piece.这是一门重炮。
- The artillery has more firepower than the infantry.炮兵火力比步兵大。
- We must evacuate those soldiers at once!我们必须立即撤出这些士兵！
- They were planning to evacuate the seventy American officials still in the country.他们正计划转移仍滞留在该国的70名美国官员。
- He vowed quite solemnly that he would carry out his promise. 他非常庄严地发誓要实现他的诺言。
- I vowed to do more of the cooking myself. 我发誓自己要多动手做饭。
- The ban was initially opposed by the US.这一禁令首先遭到美国的反对。
- Feathers initially developed from insect scales.羽毛最初由昆虫的翅瓣演化而来。
- We should step up the development of infrastructure for research.加强科学基础设施建设。
- We should strengthen cultural infrastructure and boost various types of popular culture.加强文化基础设施建设，发展各类群众文化。
- With a last defiant gesture,they sang a revolutionary song as they were led away to prison.他们被带走投入监狱时，仍以最后的反抗姿态唱起了一支革命歌曲。
- He assumed a defiant attitude toward his employer.他对雇主采取挑衅的态度。
- All the town was drifting toward the graveyard.全镇的人都象流水似地向那坟场涌过去。
- Living next to a graveyard would give me the creeps.居住在墓地旁边会使我毛骨悚然。
- 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。