VOA双语新闻 --- 洛杉矶等美国城市出现反伊战集会
时间：2019-02-14 作者：英语课 分类：VOA双语新闻 2008年3月
Protesters in several US cities held anti-war rallies Saturday to mark the fifth anniversary of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq, March 20th. More rallies are planned in coming days in other U.S. cities. Several thousand joined an anti-war protest in Los Angeles.
今年3月20号是美国攻打伊拉克五周年，美国几座城市的抗议者星期六举行反战集会。未来几天美国其它城市也计划举行类似抗议集会。有几千人参加了洛杉矶的反战示威。
Marchers chanted and some carried flag-draped coffins 1 as speakers demanded that U.S. troops come home.
集会者高呼口号，有些人还抬着用国旗覆盖的棺木，集会发言人要求美国军队撤离伊拉克回国。集会者高呼，“停止战争......”
Sharaf Mowjood of the Council on American-Islamic Relations says the continued presence of American troops is worsening conditions in Iraq, and diverting attention from domestic U.S. problems, including rebuilding New Orleans. The city was devastated 2 by Hurricane Katrina in 2005.
美国-伊斯兰关系协会的谢拉夫.莫吉奥德表示，美国军队继续驻扎伊拉克，正在恶化那里的局势，并且会转移人们对重建新奥尔良等美国国内问题的注意力。新奥尔良市在2005年的卡特里娜飓风中受到严重破坏。
"We need to pull out immediately. That's the main thing right now we need to do. It's a conundrum 3 as it is," he said. "So it's in a situation where the best viable 4 option is to pull out because you have a lot of these internal problems you have to deal with, health care, sub-prime mortgage crisis, Katrina, all that. We need to work on those issues first."
谢拉夫.莫吉奥德说：“我们需要立即从伊拉克撤军。这是目前我们需要做的首要事情。这本来就是一道难题。因此，目前情况下最佳可行选择就是撤军，理由是，国内现在有大量问题急待解决，比如医疗保健，次级房屋抵押贷款危机，卡特里娜飓风后的重建等等。我们需要首先解决这些问题。”
Members of religious, labor 5 and community groups joined the Los Angeles demonstration 7. Madelyn MacKay, a Quaker, says the protests are sending a message to the candidates in the November 4 presidential election.
宗教组织、劳工组织以及一些社团的成员加入了洛杉矶反战示威。贵格会教徒马德琳.麦凯说，抗议示威活动是向参加11月4号总统选举的候选人传递一个信息。
"And I think this sort of unity 6 among groups for this one cause in the country is a big message to all of the candidates running that there is a lot of support through all kinds of organizations and all kinds of communities, people that do want us to get out of the war quickly," she said.
马德琳.麦凯说：“我认为，在这个国家，各个组织和团体因为这样一个原因而如此心齐，是向所有总统参选人传递一条重要信息，那就是希望我们国家尽快结束伊拉克战争，这得到各个组织和各个社团以及全体民众的大力支持。”
Protests were also scheduled Saturday for Albuquerque, Austin, and other U.S. cities.
阿尔伯克基、奥斯汀等美国其它城市星期六也曾计划要举行抗议示威。
More anti-war events are scheduled in San Francisco, Chicago and Washington D.C. on March 19, on the eve of the fifth anniversary of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq.
此外，旧金山、芝加哥和华盛顿哥伦比亚特区定于3月19号，也就是美国领导的攻打伊拉克行动的前一天，举行反战活动。
- The shop was close and hot, and the atmosphere seemed tainted with the smell of coffins. 店堂里相当闷热，空气仿佛被棺木的味儿污染了。 来自辞典例句
- Donate some coffins to the temple, equal to the number of deaths. 到寺庙里，捐赠棺材盒给这些死者吧。 来自电影对白
- The bomb devastated much of the old part of the city. 这颗炸弹炸毁了旧城的一大片地方。
- His family is absolutely devastated. 他的一家感到极为震惊。
- Let me give you some history about a conundrum.让我给你们一些关于谜题的历史。
- Scientists had focused on two explanations to solve this conundrum.科学家已锁定两种解释来解开这个难题。
- The scheme is economically viable.这个计划从经济效益来看是可行的。
- The economy of the country is not viable.这个国家经济是难以维持的。
- We are never late in satisfying him for his labor.我们从不延误付给他劳动报酬。
- He was completely spent after two weeks of hard labor.艰苦劳动两周后，他已经疲惫不堪了。
- When we speak of unity,we do not mean unprincipled peace.所谓团结，并非一团和气。
- We must strengthen our unity in the face of powerful enemies.大敌当前，我们必须加强团结。
- His new book is a demonstration of his patriotism.他写的新书是他的爱国精神的证明。
- He gave a demonstration of the new technique then and there.他当场表演了这种新的操作方法。