2007年VOA标准英语-US Military Races To Protect Troops
时间：2019-02-08 作者：英语课 分类：2007年VOA标准英语（九月）
Washington
03 September 2007
As it seeks to reduce the dangers faced by American troops in Iraq, the U.S. military is turning to technology originally devised by the apartheid-era government of South Africa to counter similar threats.
The Pentagon is racing 1 to test, acquire and field new armored vehicles that provide better protection against the deadly explosive devices being employed by Iraqi insurgents 2.
Production and procurement 3 of the machines, officially called Mine Resistant 4 Ambush 5 Protected vehicles - or MRAP's - has been made the Pentagon's "highest priority". Malcolm Brown reports.
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The American military calls them "lifesavers." Here at the U.S. Army's Aberdeen Test Center in the state of Maryland the military is working around the clock to refine the vehicles. The urgency is driven by the continuous rise in American casualties. One recent independent study attributed nearly 40 percent of U.S. fatalities 6 in Iraq to the use of so-called improvised 7 explosive devices.
In that environment, Aberdeen Test Center commander Colonel John Rooney calls the MRAP a "vast leap forward" in protection. "I know that there are many people today that will live because they are in this vehicle."
That life-saving ability comes in large part from the V-shape of the hull 8, designed to
Colonel John Rooney
deflect 9 blast. The basic principle was devised in South Africa decades ago.
Marine 10 Brigadier General Michael Brogan, who serves on a special Pentagon MRAP task force, is mindful of that history. "We have leveraged 11 very much off the design of those vehicles we have taken some of those lessons learned, rolled them back to our vendors 12 and made some improvements in the platform."
Dakota Wood,a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments 13 in Washington, D.C., has written about MRAPs. He says the use of "mature" technology allows for rapid deployment 14. "This is a commercially available vehicle, that has proven its worth in protecting occupants against blast and fragmentation; you know, mine-like devices."
With all that it is doing, the U.S. military still faces criticism for the speed at which it is getting these vehicles to troops in the field.
- I was watching the racing on television last night.昨晚我在电视上看赛马。
- The two racing drivers fenced for a chance to gain the lead.两个赛车手伺机竞相领先。
- The regular troops of Baden joined the insurgents. 巴登的正规军参加到起义军方面来了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- Against the Taliban and Iraqi insurgents, these problems are manageable. 要对付塔利班与伊拉克叛乱分子，这些问题还是可以把握住的。 来自互联网
- He is in charge of the procurement of materials.他负责物资的采购。
- More and more,human food procurement came to have a dominant effect on their evolution.人类获取食物愈来愈显著地影响到人类的进化。
- Many pests are resistant to the insecticide.许多害虫对这种杀虫剂有抵抗力。
- They imposed their government by force on the resistant population.他们以武力把自己的统治强加在持反抗态度的人民头上。
- Our soldiers lay in ambush in the jungle for the enemy.我方战士埋伏在丛林中等待敌人。
- Four men led by a sergeant lay in ambush at the crossroads.由一名中士率领的四名士兵埋伏在十字路口。
- Several people were injured, but there were no fatalities. 有几个人受伤，但没有人死亡。
- The accident resulted in fatalities. 那宗意外道致多人死亡。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- He improvised a song about the football team's victory. 他即席创作了一首足球队胜利之歌。
- We improvised a tent out of two blankets and some long poles. 我们用两条毛毯和几根长竿搭成一个临时帐蓬。
- The outer surface of ship's hull is very hard.船体的外表面非常坚硬。
- The boat's hull has been staved in by the tremendous seas.小船壳让巨浪打穿了。
- Never let a little problem deflect you.决不要因一点小问题就半途而废。
- They decided to deflect from the original plan.他们决定改变原计划。
- Marine creatures are those which live in the sea. 海洋生物是生存在海里的生物。
- When the war broke out,he volunteered for the Marine Corps.战争爆发时，他自愿参加了海军陆战队。
- Chrysler has traditionally been a highly leveraged company. 克莱斯勒一向是一家周转十分灵活的公司。
- Leveraged recaps have become popular for a number of reasons. 杠杆资本重组的大行其道有好几个原因。
- The vendors were gazundered at the last minute. 卖主在最后一刻被要求降低房价。
- At the same time, interface standards also benefIt'software vendors. 同时，界面标准也有利于软件开发商。 来自About Face 3交互设计精髓
- He was shrewd in his personal assessments. 他总能对人作出精明的评价。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- Surveys show about two-thirds use such assessments, while half employ personality tests. 调查表明，约有三分之二的公司采用了这种测评；而一半的公司则采用工作人员个人品质测试。 来自百科语句
- He has inquired out the deployment of the enemy troops. 他已查出敌军的兵力部署情况。
- Quality function deployment (QFD) is a widely used customer-driven quality, design and manufacturing management tool. 质量功能展开(quality function deployment,QFD)是一个广泛应用的顾客需求驱动的设计、制造和质量管理工具。