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。
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absorption sensors
airportage
al burghuliyah
aquae plumbi
axillary hair grafting
bandwagoner
billet pusher
Bookabie
brushoffs
bucket wheel trencher
carbon dioxide leakage
carcinosectomy
cerol colors
CFU-Blast
chat bot
chihsia age
Chloranthus henryi
Ciidae
cladoselachids
Clematis napoensis
colluvies
convergence indicator
corpora pampiniforme
cost of structures of water project
Daily Chart
decide
derecha
diameter breast height
differential class
digicorin
divert in
dripplekie
earthquake periodicity
Esaki
feed proportioning system
felicitated
field lateral
Fritillaria pluriflora
Galois
general patton
gerle
go at it
grid measuring system
haloalkaliphilic
helical Bourdon-tube
hepatomegalies
insect vector of rice virus
JSIT
Kilómetro 96
kingdom prokaryotaes
lawnmarkets
Los Alamos County
loved ones
low altitude alert system
low-energy path
Lowville
metalexicographical
millimeter wave amplifiers
multiple-word processing
N-methyl-N-nitro-p-toluenesulfonamide (MNSA)
narvas
Ningbo
non-permissive
not see beyond sth
not well maintained
overaccelerating
paleolongitudinal
parapronoe elongata
pedobaptisms
performance-boosting
platinum-blond
PMIC
pockmarked
polden
prepayment of freight charge
prodigence
prosenneahedral
psychomotor seizure
quartz-lens method
rationalizing denominator
redundancy payment
reefer cargo list
reset bias circuit
resource data file
saxter aithe
schne
Sloanea leptocarpa
stick something on
stoicer
straight line body
table-rapping
taking-up equipment
Terrasson-la-Villedieu
the secession
think light of
tog sb up
torsion prime
vaccum xanthate mixer
velvetier
xvth
your telex
youssuf