CNN 美国有线新闻 2014-12-07

 Want to start today with a nod with my friend at L. county high school who visited CNN center yesterday.

It's great to see all of you. Welcome to CNN Student News. First up, this December 4th, the Syrian town of Kobani. You've heard us mentioned it before. It's right by Syria's northern border with Turkey. It's been targeted for months by ISIS terrorist groups which controls a third of Iraq and Syria but ISIS hasn't been able to take total control of Kobani.  It's been hit by US led airstrikes. Americans and Syrian officials disagreed about whether theses airstrikes have been effective in stopping ISIS but the terrorists have also gotten strong resistance in Kobani by K. and other ethnic¹ groups. All this has taken its toll² in the border town.  Some areas are just hips³ of rubble⁴. Previously⁵, we could only show you fighting there from our journalists who were across the border in Turkey. Now, with the help of some of those who are fighting ISIS, we are able to show you what is like inside Kobani.

We've been taken down the street towards the eastern frontline behind those Kurds they've put up to protect them from snipers by B. and M. who 2 of the female YPG fighters escorting us down there. And this is near the eastern front where there's much more intense fighting in the past 3 or 4 days and we got different figures from whom you've speak to hear about quite how much of this city is controlled. You see here the quite remarkable⁶ devastation⁷ caused by the explosive used. What's quite clear is that ISIS are far from giving up on this fight. In fact, try to take ground everyday. They move across the official border across 3 or 4 days ago. That was a substantial advance they tried. They were beaten back but each night, particularly last night, we had very intense clashes further down this streets toward this eastern frontier. You can hear... You can see the absolute devastation here as we get closer towards ISIS's positions here to the northeast of the city. Some of those caused by airstrieks but some, too, from the daily constant. Sometimes, every 5 minutes .... ,some home made by ISIS. They've been pounded on Kobani for months now. We can see Turkey eventually just behind us but here they through this wreckage⁸,  closer and closer to the places ISIS are trying to push forwards.

1 ethnic   

adj.人种的，种族的，异教徒的

参考例句：

• 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。

2 toll   

n.过路(桥)费；损失，伤亡人数；v.敲(钟)

参考例句：

• The hailstone took a heavy toll of the crops in our village last night.昨晚那场冰雹损坏了我们村的庄稼。
• The war took a heavy toll of human life.这次战争夺去了许多人的生命。

3 hips   

abbr.high impact polystyrene 高冲击强度聚苯乙烯，耐冲性聚苯乙烯n.臀部( hip的名词复数 )；[建筑学]屋脊；臀围（尺寸）；臀部…的

参考例句：

• She stood with her hands on her hips. 她双手叉腰站着。
• They wiggled their hips to the sound of pop music. 他们随着流行音乐的声音摇晃着臀部。 来自《简明英汉词典》

4 rubble   

n.（一堆）碎石，瓦砾

参考例句：

• After the earthquake,it took months to clean up the rubble.地震后，花了数月才清理完瓦砾。
• After the war many cities were full of rubble.战后许多城市到处可见颓垣残壁。

5 previously   

adv.以前，先前（地）

参考例句：

• The bicycle tyre blew out at a previously damaged point.自行车胎在以前损坏过的地方又爆开了。
• Let me digress for a moment and explain what had happened previously.让我岔开一会儿，解释原先发生了什么。

6 remarkable   

adj.显著的，异常的，非凡的，值得注意的

参考例句：

• She has made remarkable headway in her writing skills.她在写作技巧方面有了长足进步。
• These cars are remarkable for the quietness of their engines.这些汽车因发动机没有噪音而不同凡响。

7 devastation   

n.毁坏；荒废；极度震惊或悲伤

参考例句：

• The bomb caused widespread devastation. 炸弹造成大面积破坏。
• There was devastation on every side. 到处都是破坏的创伤。 来自《简明英汉词典》

8 wreckage   

n.（失事飞机等的）残骸，破坏，毁坏

参考例句：

• 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。