时间:2018-12-20 作者:英语课 分类:CNN美国有线新闻2017年3月


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Mosul is the second largest city in the Middle Eastern nation of Iraq. It's also a stronghold of the ISIS terrorist group, which took over Mosul in 2014. Defeating ISIS here would be a major setback 1 to the terrorist but it's not easy. There may be only a few thousand ISIS fighters left in Mosul, but they're using tunnels, roadside bombs, explosive traps and guerilla warfare 2 in the fight.


They're up against force of tens of thousands Iraqi troops supported by Americans and allied 3 airpower, plus, ethnic 4 Kurdish fighters known as the Peshmerga. They're all working to push ISIS out.


The battle for Mosul has been going on since October. It was expected to take months and it is. The reasons why are clear in the struggle to take over one key part of the city.


NICK PATON WALSH, CNN SENIOR INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Day four, and perhaps the biggest push yet from the north into the plains around Mosul. Trying to dislodge the determined 5 and deranged 6 remnants of ISIS, but the Peshmerga backed with staggering air power.


But now common sight of American special forces, who the Pentagon says are advising, not assaulting position in front of the attack. The work was slow, destructive. Begging the question, what becomes of the wreckage 7 under new masters?


Suddenly, in the sky, a hail of bullets. They've spotted 8 a drone. Trace rounds dance around it and finally take off its nose.


ISIS used them to spot targets for artillery 9, even drop small bombs. This one tumbles down. Its wreckage picked over. It's still unclear whose it is.


Yet progress down the road Khorsabad is agonizingly slow.


This is a source of so much of the fighting this morning, but still full of ISIS. And, in fact, we've heard that Peshmerga have listened to those militants 10 on their radios this morning discussing how they should wait and only launch a counterattack once the Peshmerga are inside.



1 setback
n.退步,挫折,挫败
  • Since that time there has never been any setback in his career.从那时起他在事业上一直没有遇到周折。
  • She views every minor setback as a disaster.她把每个较小的挫折都看成重大灾难。
2 warfare
n.战争(状态);斗争;冲突
  • He addressed the audience on the subject of atomic warfare.他向听众演讲有关原子战争的问题。
  • Their struggle consists mainly in peasant guerrilla warfare.他们的斗争主要是农民游击战。
3 allied
adj.协约国的;同盟国的
  • Britain was allied with the United States many times in history.历史上英国曾多次与美国结盟。
  • Allied forces sustained heavy losses in the first few weeks of the campaign.同盟国在最初几周内遭受了巨大的损失。
4 ethnic
adj.人种的,种族的,异教徒的
  • This music would sound more ethnic if you played it in steel drums.如果你用钢鼓演奏,这首乐曲将更具民族特色。
  • The plan is likely only to aggravate ethnic frictions.这一方案很有可能只会加剧种族冲突。
5 determined
adj.坚定的;有决心的
  • I have determined on going to Tibet after graduation.我已决定毕业后去西藏。
  • He determined to view the rooms behind the office.他决定查看一下办公室后面的房间。
6 deranged
adj.疯狂的
  • Traffic was stopped by a deranged man shouting at the sky.一名狂叫的疯子阻塞了交通。
  • A deranged man shot and killed 14 people.一个精神失常的男子开枪打死了14人。
7 wreckage
n.(失事飞机等的)残骸,破坏,毁坏
  • They hauled him clear of the wreckage.他们把他从形骸中拖出来。
  • New states were born out of the wreckage of old colonial empires.新生国家从老殖民帝国的废墟中诞生。
8 spotted
adj.有斑点的,斑纹的,弄污了的
  • The milkman selected the spotted cows,from among a herd of two hundred.牛奶商从一群200头牛中选出有斑点的牛。
  • Sam's shop stocks short spotted socks.山姆的商店屯积了有斑点的短袜。
9 artillery
n.(军)火炮,大炮;炮兵(部队)
  • This is a heavy artillery piece.这是一门重炮。
  • The artillery has more firepower than the infantry.炮兵火力比步兵大。
10 militants
激进分子,好斗分子( militant的名词复数 )
  • The militants have been sporadically fighting the government for years. 几年来,反叛分子一直对政府实施零星的战斗。
  • Despite the onslaught, Palestinian militants managed to fire off rockets. 尽管如此,巴勒斯坦的激进分子仍然发射导弹。
学英语单词
a pair of steps
adkinson
advanced annual survey
amplitide lopper
as-cast-finish concrete
aspirating burner
assignment key
Bader
body seam
BRIMEC
Bruehl receiver
Cardamine engleriana
carving-and-engraving decoration
casillo
catapults
channel oven
computation space
conduplicate cotyledon
constant ratio code
consumption price
Down in the doldrums
drinks
dub poetry
duddered
electrical computer
electrocapillarity
engine necelle
excellent pay and condition
family Geometridae
Fermi theory of weak interaction
flying kisses
FreeTDS
friand
grain diminution
guardia civil
halflings
hemangioma of palate
hexamethoxide
hongkong ear
Hume's
hunt someone down
hydowse
integral equation
it's a crying shame
jogging relay
kohonen
layout density
liquid-fired
magnetic navigation
Mansein
mapk
meltoryzine
Merlin
minimum critical volume
mosaic agate
multiplex terminal
myologist
non ideal gas
non rattling
open cell
ordinary practice
oscillating scan
pactory
pelligrini
perciformes
Pilizocarpeae
plasma desorption mass spectrometry
polyaddition resin
polymorphic sun light eruption
porous flow
previous generation
purolysis of refuse
Raczki
radiation fields
recitest
redbird flower
relieve themselves
remote digital loopback test
revenue service day
role - playing game
singlestranded DNA binding protein
Sprague's
squared error loss function
stationary grate bar
structure discrimination
Tamalelt
teamies
terminate contract before the date of expiration
Terminosporus
test tone peak deviation
testing pressure
theorem of parallel axes
Tingwon I.
Tiniroto
total treatment
under an alias
underflow locus
undisparaging
universal-joint bushing and ring spider
vena mediastinales
vibrator unit
Yakshur-Bod'ya