时间:2018-12-19 作者:英语课 分类:CNN2013年(三)月


英语课

 It's March and the madness is upon us, hello, everyone, I'm Carl Azuz. Later on today, we're going to tell you exactly how all of this came together. But we're starting today with an anniversary, it was exactly ten years ago on March 19th, 2003, that the war in Iraq began.


"At this hour, American and coalition 1 forces are in the early stages of military operations to disarm 2 Iraq, to free its people and protect world from great danger."
"Major combat operations in Iraq have ended."
"By removing Saddam Hussein from power, America is safer and the world is better off."
You guys have grown up with this war, you've seen images like those, may be learn phrases like weapons of mass destruction or shock and awe 3. For years, the war in Iraq is part of our daily lives, when it began ten years ago, Iraq was under the control of Saddam Hussein. The longtime president was forced out of power and in the hiding as U.S. and coalition troops moved through the country and took control of Baghdad, the capital city. Hussein was captured in December of 2003. The war went on for eight more years, as U.S. coalition and Iraqi forces fought against insurgence 4. By the time the war did end, Iraqis had voted in their country's first free election in half a century. Tens of thousands of lives, troops and civilians 5 have been lost. And for many of the people who lived through it, like the family that Arwa Damon sat down with. Life had changed forever.
"And why did you stow?"
"I still got hope back then."
"You know, we didn't lose hope."
"Right now, it's worse than 2006, 2007 or 2008?"
"Of course. This is what we said, it's entrenching 6."
"That's frustrating 7. I was depressed 8, all my close friends left the country."
"Did you ever say I want to go to?"
"No, because I know that she is doing the right thing that what we're not leaving. And I know that there is a hope."
"We trust her."
"But you've changed your mind now."
"Six, seven months ago?"
"When I walk, I don't feel comfortable, because I feel threatened that someone might hurt me, or you know, or harass 9 me, or do anything to me. And I can't feel safe unles I'm with my mother or with someone who is older than me."
"So you guys just online all the time?"
"Yeah, I spend most of the times on my phone here."
"One is not enough, so it's mostly their lives."
"So you're living in a virtual world, effectively."
"Yeah, yeah, we can say that."
"And when they meet, now they meet at home."
"A lot of people have a tendency to look at the numbers. They looked at the numbers of people who were killed from, but from everything you, you three are describing. that's not your barometer 10."
"No."
"No, it's about how to live like human being."
"There is no future here."

1 coalition
n.结合体,同盟,结合,联合
  • The several parties formed a coalition.这几个政党组成了政治联盟。
  • Coalition forces take great care to avoid civilian casualties.联盟军队竭尽全力避免造成平民伤亡。
2 disarm
v.解除武装,回复平常的编制,缓和
  • The world has waited 12 years for Iraq to disarm. 全世界等待伊拉克解除武装已有12年之久。
  • He has rejected every peaceful opportunity offered to him to disarm.他已经拒绝了所有能和平缴械的机会。
3 awe
n.敬畏,惊惧;vt.使敬畏,使惊惧
  • The sight filled us with awe.这景色使我们大为惊叹。
  • The approaching tornado struck awe in our hearts.正在逼近的龙卷风使我们惊恐万分。
4 insurgence
n.起义;造反;暴动;叛乱
  • US troops moved into the Afghan mountains in an offensive to stop Taliban insurgence. 美军日前进军阿富汗山区阻止塔利班组织的一次暴动。 来自互联网
5 civilians
平民,百姓( civilian的名词复数 ); 老百姓
  • the bloody massacre of innocent civilians 对无辜平民的血腥屠杀
  • At least 300 civilians are unaccounted for after the bombing raids. 遭轰炸袭击之后,至少有300名平民下落不明。
6 entrenching
v.用壕沟围绕或保护…( entrench的现在分词 );牢固地确立…
  • It has the same effect of entrenching the elite in corrupt economies. 它有着令精英陷入腐败经济的相同效应。 来自互联网
  • This in entrenching on other domains. 这是在侵占别人的领土。 来自互联网
7 frustrating
adj.产生挫折的,使人沮丧的,令人泄气的v.使不成功( frustrate的现在分词 );挫败;使受挫折;令人沮丧
  • It's frustrating to have to wait so long. 要等这么长时间,真令人懊恼。
  • It was a demeaning and ultimately frustrating experience. 那是一次有失颜面并且令人沮丧至极的经历。 来自《简明英汉词典》
8 depressed
adj.沮丧的,抑郁的,不景气的,萧条的
  • When he was depressed,he felt utterly divorced from reality.他心情沮丧时就感到完全脱离了现实。
  • His mother was depressed by the sad news.这个坏消息使他的母亲意志消沉。
9 harass
vt.使烦恼,折磨,骚扰
  • Our mission is to harass the landing of the main Japaness expeditionary force.我们的任务是骚乱日本远征军主力的登陆。
  • They received the order to harass the enemy's rear.他们接到骚扰敌人后方的命令。
10 barometer
n.气压表,睛雨表,反应指标
  • The barometer marked a continuing fall in atmospheric pressure.气压表表明气压在继续下降。
  • The arrow on the barometer was pointing to"stormy".气压计上的箭头指向“有暴风雨”。
学英语单词
acalypha longi-acuminata
acanthocyte
advance
ambitiosity
ancienty
ankinovichite
ayas
bench charge
benzoguanamine formaldehyde resin
blue about the gills
bottom tap
catfood
CCL47
chaetomorpha linum
Chepetskiy
clearages
copper family element
cuban peso
diametric winding
dihydrocapsaicin
do a job on sb.
dry fried pork liver
Engelsberg
factory of the future
farrukhabad
feedwater temperature
Fibraurin
fines forfeits and penalty receipt
fishing spear
free place
front face area
functional index of urban centers
fyodor mikhailovich dostoyevskies
genus Leontideus
GESP
ghetto blaster
grid authentication
hand-sewn seam
harun
HDAA
header checking
hot liming
idealists
inclined
indirect material use variance
information vector
kleinsorge
lanthanotids
letter sorting machine
liberalization of nontariff barrier
ligature forceps
M.I.Chem.E.
Marrupa
masherbrums
mesaticephaly
military airport
mitreader
near infrared detector
on-demand processing
outage threshold
papaver somniferums
parachloroanilinum
pedal cycle
Pendred syndrome
philharmonic orchestras
pitohui
potis
potty-mouth
proto-patriarchal
public relations officer
radiation analyzing assembly
raise a cheque
rated loading
realistic
response required
rubber pipe
sambac
Seeon
segmentalized
self-ignite
sensor sensitivity of fluxgate magnetometer
site remanence
sodium niobate
solar photovoltaic power
speculative grade
spray drop
stage efficiency
straits of hormuz
string matching algorithm
student's card
subpellicular microtubule
supervision of salesmen
Surface-float
tabu (polynesia)
tease-hole
thromboplastic substance
tined loader
unbalanced polyphase load
unreign
wigner eckart theorem
woolfist
zmeskal