VOA标准英语2012--Residents of War-Battered Aleppo Struggle to Survive
时间：2019-01-14 作者：英语课 分类：VOA标准英语2012年(十月)
Residents of War-Battered Aleppo Struggle to Survive
Government snipers have been shooting people in the streets. Thousands have been killed in Aleppo in the past few months.
Parts of the Old City, a UNESCO heritage site, have been heavily damaged as government forces bomb areas they do not control.
Abu Omar, who commands a brigade of the rebel Free Syrian Army, says the rebels had hoped to drive the government troops from the city by now, but this has not happened.
"Since the Eid at the end of Ramadan two months ago we wanted to take all of Aleppo and reach Damascus but the lack of ammunition 1 and the rockets from the jet planes have prevented us," he said.
In a nearby residential 2 area, people line up to buy bread despite mortar 3 shells exploding a few kilometers away.
Taxi driver Abu Hedar wants to leave, but has to stay to care for his cousin who is wounded and cannot be moved.
"Life is miserable 4 here. People are leaving," Hedar said. "There is no food or drink. When there is bombing, people run away to the villages or into their basements."
Abu Hedar adds that whether he lives or dies, it is his destiny.
In another neighborhood, factory worker Abd al-Naser says of course he is afraid. At one point he took his family to a village outside the city.
"We were 50 people in a single room with no beds, no water, no electricity. So we had to come back," al-Naser said.
The Bustan al-Bashr neighborhood on the front line was bombed on this morning. A rebel checkpoint was probably the target. A government war plane circles above, firing automatic cannon 5 shots.
This neighborhood is now empty. Most residents have fled. They have joined the 200,000 refugees in neighboring countries or the nearly two million people displaced inside Syria by months of civil war.
- A few of the jeeps had run out of ammunition.几辆吉普车上的弹药已经用光了。
- They have expended all their ammunition.他们把弹药用光。
- The mayor inspected the residential section of the city.市长视察了该市的住宅区。
- The residential blocks were integrated with the rest of the college.住宿区与学院其他部分结合在了一起。
- The mason flushed the joint with mortar.泥工用灰浆把接缝处嵌平。
- The sound of mortar fire seemed to be closing in.迫击炮的吼声似乎正在逼近。
- It was miserable of you to make fun of him.你取笑他，这是可耻的。
- Her past life was miserable.她过去的生活很苦。