时间:2019-02-08 作者:英语课 分类:2007年VOA常速英语(十月)


英语课
By Meredith Buel
Washington
15 October 2007


A top U.S. military commander in Iraq says American armed forces in al-Anbar province have defeated insurgents 1 from al-Qaida in Iraq. As VOA correspondent Meredith Buel reports from Washington, that does not mean attacks have ceased in surrounding areas.


U.S. Marine 2 Colonel Richard Simcock, who commands the 6th Marine Regiment 3, says his forces have successfully routed the insurgents in Anbar province.


"There are still attacks in Fallujah and surrounding areas," said Colonel Simcock. "We have not killed or captured every single al-Qaida member that is here. But their capabilities 4 are greatly diminished. I would characterize them as a defeated force from my perspective."


Speaking to reporters in Washington via satellite from Iraq, Colonel Simcock says the surge of more U.S. forces in Anbar and Baghdad has allowed Marines to stay in areas where al-Qaida in Iraq terrorists have fled to prevent insurgents from returning.


He also credits the cooperation of the Iraqi army and police, as well as local tribal 5 leaders in the effort to defeat al-Qaida in Iraq and bring security to Anbar.


"That has been the building block that has allowed the people to come out and participate in governance," he said. "But, probably more importantly, it allows them to come out and do the things that a lot of the citizens here in al-Anbar have not been able to do because of murder and intimidation 6 that al-Qaida was doing. We have made great strides in regards to that, and we are very, very pleased with the progress that we are making."


U.S. State Department official Stephen Fakan leads the Provincial 7 Reconstruction 8 Team in Anbar province.


He says his job is to build on the security provided by the Marines and Iraqi forces. Fakan says his team is working on economic development, creating new jobs and reclaiming 9 thousands of hectares of farmland.


"One of the big things that has happened since we arrived is the fact that the municipal governments are starting to stand up," said Stephen Fakan. "The city of Fallujah now has a city council, has a mayor, has a city council chairman that are all very responsive to the needs of their constituency, and are working very hard and working very much together to try to solve some of the essential services problems that are being confronted by these folks today."


The remarks regarding the defeat of the al-Qaida offshoot in Anbar province came on the same day as The Washington Post newspaper reported that the U.S. military believes it has dealt devastating 10 and possibly irreversible blows to the terrorist organization in Iraq in recent months.


The newspaper reports that some U.S. military leaders want to declare victory over al-Qaida in all of Iraq. Other officials reportedly are cautioning against such a declaration because they do not want to underestimate an enemy that has shown great resilience in the past.




n.起义,暴动,造反( insurgent的名词复数 )
  • 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
adj.海的;海生的;航海的;海事的;n.水兵
  • 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。
n.团,多数,管理;v.组织,编成团,统制
  • As he hated army life,he decide to desert his regiment.因为他嫌恶军队生活,所以他决心背弃自己所在的那个团。
  • They reformed a division into a regiment.他们将一个师整编成为一个团。
n.能力( capability的名词复数 );可能;容量;[复数]潜在能力
  • He was somewhat pompous and had a high opinion of his own capabilities. 他有点自大,自视甚高。 来自辞典例句
  • Some programmers use tabs to break complex product capabilities into smaller chunks. 一些程序员认为,标签可以将复杂的功能分为每个窗格一组简单的功能。 来自About Face 3交互设计精髓
adj.部族的,种族的
  • He became skilled in several tribal lingoes.他精通几种部族的语言。
  • The country was torn apart by fierce tribal hostilities.那个国家被部落间的激烈冲突弄得四分五裂。
n.恐吓,威胁
  • The Opposition alleged voter intimidation by the army.反对党声称投票者受到军方的恐吓。
  • The gang silenced witnesses by intimidation.恶帮用恐吓的手段使得证人不敢说话。
adj.省的,地方的;n.外省人,乡下人
  • City dwellers think country folk have provincial attitudes.城里人以为乡下人思想迂腐。
  • Two leading cadres came down from the provincial capital yesterday.昨天从省里下来了两位领导干部。
n.重建,再现,复原
  • The country faces a huge task of national reconstruction following the war.战后,该国面临着重建家园的艰巨任务。
  • In the period of reconstruction,technique decides everything.在重建时期,技术决定一切。
v.开拓( reclaim的现在分词 );要求收回;从废料中回收(有用的材料);挽救
  • People here are reclaiming land from the sea. 这儿的人们正在填海拓地。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • How could such a man need reclaiming? 这么一个了不起的人怎么还需要别人拯救呢? 来自英汉文学 - 嘉莉妹妹
adj.毁灭性的,令人震惊的,强有力的
  • It is the most devastating storm in 20 years.这是20年来破坏性最大的风暴。
  • Affairs do have a devastating effect on marriages.婚外情确实会对婚姻造成毁灭性的影响。
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