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By Jennifer Glasse
Wooten Bassett, England
11 November 2009


 
British fallen serviceman are honored in a public ceremony
The remains 1 of five British servicemen killed by an Afghan police officer in Afghanistan have returned to Britain, along with the body of another soldier killed in an explosion. Britain's rising death toll 2 in Afghanistan is fueling opposition 3 to the war.


It is a homecoming but not the way anyone had wished... a Royal Air Force plane carrying the remains of six British servicemen.


This has become a ritual to honor the dead. Welcoming home the fallen from Afghanistan. In the English village of Wootton Bassett, a gesture of respect for a military fighting 4,000 miles away.


 
Robert Fox
This homecoming is all the more bittersweet, because five of these men were shot by an policeman they were supposed to be training.


Training the Afghan military and police is at the heart of Britain and NATO's mission in Afghanistan, and crucial to any exit strategy. If the British soldiers can not trust potential recruits, training becomes much harder. And troops in the field are having their doubts says historian and author Robert Fox.


"I know the British troops in Afhganistan have been quite wary 4 of some of the Afghan forces they've been training and frankly 5 the police force doesn't have much of a reputation at all," Fox said.


In Wootton Bassett, there's shock and disbelief at the way these men died, says Mayor Steve Bucknell. "They need always to be on their guard, They're very very professional troops, and I'm sure they're always on their guard," he says, "but to be killed in such a treacherous 6 way is particularly galling 7."


David and Sally Bell travelled 50 miles to pay their respects to men they say should not have died.


 
Roland Simmons
And military veteran Roland Simmons questions the British forces' training mission in Afghanistan. "So do we continue training them, or do we say, 'No, well we're not going to do it, no more, you've got to train your own guys,'" Simmons said.


But soon after the attack on the five servicemen, Prime Minister Gordon Brown reaffirmed Britain's commitment in Afghanistan.


"Our mission must not fail. It is not easy. The choices are not simple. There is no strategy that is without danger and risk, but that is the responsibility of leadership, of government and of our armed forces," Mr. Brown says, "to do what is necessary, however difficult, to keep the British people safe. We cannot, must not and will not walk away."


The hundreds of people who line the streets of Wootton Bassett are a testament 8 of the widespread support for the British forces, although the country remains sharply divided by whether Britain should remain in Afghanistan.


Many people say they're not happy to be here, but they'll continue to come back in order to give Britain's fallen, a proper homecoming.



n.剩余物,残留物;遗体,遗迹
  • He ate the remains of food hungrily.他狼吞虎咽地吃剩余的食物。
  • The remains of the meal were fed to the dog.残羹剩饭喂狗了。
n.过路(桥)费;损失,伤亡人数;v.敲(钟)
  • 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。
n.反对,敌对
  • The party leader is facing opposition in his own backyard.该党领袖在自己的党內遇到了反对。
  • The police tried to break down the prisoner's opposition.警察设法制住了那个囚犯的反抗。
adj.谨慎的,机警的,小心的
  • He is wary of telling secrets to others.他谨防向他人泄露秘密。
  • Paula frowned,suddenly wary.宝拉皱了皱眉头,突然警惕起来。
adv.坦白地,直率地;坦率地说
  • To speak frankly, I don't like the idea at all.老实说,我一点也不赞成这个主意。
  • Frankly speaking, I'm not opposed to reform.坦率地说,我不反对改革。
adj.不可靠的,有暗藏的危险的;adj.背叛的,背信弃义的
  • The surface water made the road treacherous for drivers.路面的积水对驾车者构成危险。
  • The frozen snow was treacherous to walk on.在冻雪上行走有潜在危险。
adj.难堪的,使烦恼的,使焦躁的
  • It was galling to have to apologize to a man she hated. 令人恼火的是得向她憎恶的男人道歉。
  • The insolence in the fellow's eye was galling. 这家伙的傲慢目光令人恼怒。 来自英汉文学 - 嘉莉妹妹
n.遗嘱;证明
  • This is his last will and testament.这是他的遗愿和遗嘱。
  • It is a testament to the power of political mythology.这说明,编造政治神话可以产生多大的威力。
学英语单词
abductor ventralis muscle
acta
Ad Dukaydik
aerothermochemist
avon
basic categories of soil classification
be brought on the carpet
binding attachment
blow doors
bought in
brain surgeons
bryozoan
catches fire
class Cyanobacteria
clastobryum glabrescens
communistery
conchairamine
conjugate diametral plane
courtesy phone
cyclohexanone resin
direction to a jury
distance along the quasiorthogonal
doryl
dumb card
dye penetrant process
eakleite (xonotlite)
ecclesiasts
eddylike
elevon area
emptyish
energy-transfer equation
entrepreurialism
Ephedra rhytidosperma
erre
evaluation of merchandise
even grained texture
field check
frequency range expanding method
generalized Ohm's law
genter
genus bombaxes
Ghilarza
God's bones
graylisting
Hastie, William Henry
heidepriem
heterofermentangium
hinge type connection rod
induction type ammeter
Joule-Thomson valve
let there be
linearly polarized light output
loose-lifting piston
Lukovit
lusader
madryam
magnetoelectric transducer
maladie du sommeil
metal faced joinery
Mezzanego
mis-fired
Mlles.
Neu-Anspach
normal bonded-phase chromatography
Oratorio San Antonio
ovarian condition
package policy
pill mass roller
pindicks
plastic wax
Prehensile-Tailed
primapterin
printed circuit wiring
product motives
projectile-vomiting
pupping
reefous
roundness grade
routineness
scope of repairing course
second doctor
Serpentine Hot Springs
shofars
sodium tetraphosphate
spunking up
Stew in your own juices
stimulation therapy
syncephalis formosana
Tazolé
TDM bus switching
temperature-induced
the crown of the year
the watches of the night
tradeable
trellis post
trench mouths
tricuspid valves
two-cycle coast
unduly burdensome
vasa sanguinea retinae
Winthrop Harbor
wittner