2007年VOA标准英语-Scattered Violence Across Iraq as Baghdad Ramps

By Barry Newhouse
Irbil
11 February 2007

Iraqi army soldier inspects a car destroyed in a car bomb explosion in central Baghdad, 11 Feb 2007

As Baghdad residents prepare for new security measures they hope will reduce the capital's chaotic¹ violence, attacks continued elsewhere in the country. Officials say a suicide truck bombing in Tikrit Sunday killed at least 15 people, and eight border guard recruits were reported gunned down near the Syrian border. VOA's Barry Newhouse reports from northern Iraq.

U.S. and Iraqi forces in Baghdad are increasing joint² patrols, and setting up new checkpoints, but Iraqi officials say the city's new security operation still has not been fully³ implemented⁴. Iraq's Kurdish president, Jalal Talabani, and its Shi'ite prime minister, Nouri al Maliki, told reporters that the security plan will be applied⁵ equally across the capital city's religiously divided neighborhoods. Prime Minister Maliki dismissed news reports that the plan had already started in one predominantly Sunni neighborhood.

He says, "It will never start from one neighborhood - it will start for all of Baghdad at the same time." He says, "Do not listen to those who say that it started from this or that kind of neighborhood."

As part of the increased security, the U.S. military reported that Iraqi and U.S. forces conducted 7,400 patrols in Baghdad this week, uncovering 14 weapons stockpiles and detaining about 140 suspected insurgents⁶. U.S. officials also reported they continue to build fortified⁷ combat outposts in the middle of Baghdad's most violent neighborhoods.

Outside Baghdad, Iraqi police say they plan to increase checkpoints to stop insurgents who may flee the city's security crackdown. Sherkou Shakir, a police commander in Kirkuk, 250 kilometers north of Baghdad, says his forces plan to guard the highway from Baghdad.

He says, "all of us together support this plan to face these armed groups." Iraqis forced to flee sectarian violence in their Baghdad neighborhoods are hoping that the operation will help them return. This Shi'ite woman said she left Baghdad after insurgents came to her home and threatened her.

She says, "I hope to go back home and to see my neighbors, who I have known for a long time. I pray that the plan will help all families go back home in peace."

Meanwhile, at a news briefing in Baghdad, a senior U.S. defense⁸ official, who spoke⁹ with reporters on condition his name not be used, said increasingly sophisticated bombs were sent to Iraqi extremists from Iran. He said intelligence analysts¹⁰ believe the weapons are manufactured in Iran and smuggled¹¹ into Iraq on orders from the Iranian government. He did not elaborate.

1 chaotic   

adj.混沌的，一片混乱的，一团糟的

参考例句：

• Things have been getting chaotic in the office recently.最近办公室的情况越来越乱了。
• The traffic in the city was chaotic.这城市的交通糟透了。

2 joint   

adj.联合的，共同的；n.关节，接合处；v.连接，贴合

参考例句：

• I had a bad fall,which put my shoulder out of joint.我重重地摔了一跤，肩膀脫臼了。
• We wrote a letter in joint names.我们联名写了封信。

3 fully   

adv.完全地，全部地，彻底地；充分地

参考例句：

• The doctor asked me to breathe in,then to breathe out fully.医生让我先吸气，然后全部呼出。
• They soon became fully integrated into the local community.他们很快就完全融入了当地人的圈子。

4 implemented   

v.实现( implement的过去式和过去分词 )；执行；贯彻；使生效

参考例句：

• This agreement, if not implemented, is a mere scrap of paper. 这个协定如不执行只不过是一纸空文。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
• The economy is in danger of collapse unless far-reaching reforms are implemented. 如果不实施影响深远的改革，经济就面临崩溃的危险。 来自辞典例句

5 applied   

adj.应用的；v.应用，适用

参考例句：

• She plans to take a course in applied linguistics.她打算学习应用语言学课程。
• This cream is best applied to the face at night.这种乳霜最好晚上擦脸用。

6 insurgents   

n.起义，暴动，造反( insurgent的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• 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

7 fortified   

adj. 加强的

参考例句：

• He fortified himself against the cold with a hot drink. 他喝了一杯热饮御寒。
• The enemy drew back into a few fortified points. 敌人收缩到几个据点里。

8 defense   

n.防御，保卫；[pl.]防务工事；辩护，答辩

参考例句：

• The accused has the right to defense.被告人有权获得辩护。
• The war has impacted the area with military and defense workers.战争使那个地区挤满了军队和防御工程人员。

9 spoke   

n.（车轮的）辐条；轮辐；破坏某人的计划；阻挠某人的行动 v.讲，谈（speak的过去式）；说；演说；从某种观点来说

参考例句：

• They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
• The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。

10 analysts   

分析家，化验员( analyst的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• City analysts forecast huge profits this year. 伦敦金融分析家预测今年的利润非常丰厚。
• I was impressed by the high calibre of the researchers and analysts. 研究人员和分析人员的高素质给我留下了深刻印象。

11 smuggled   

水货

参考例句：

• The customs officer confiscated the smuggled goods. 海关官员没收了走私品。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
• Those smuggled goods have been detained by the port office. 那些走私货物被港务局扣押了。 来自互联网