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十二月份 第 07 課

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  • Top US General: Progress in Afghanistan Will be Slow
  • 美高級將軍:阿富汗的進展將是緩慢的
  •   U.S. Army General David Petraeus says progress against the insurgency in Afghanistan will be slower than during the surge of American forces in Iraq two years ago.
  • 美國陸軍彼得雷烏斯上將說,和兩年前美軍向伊拉克增兵相比,打擊阿富汗反叛分子的進展會較為緩慢。

  •   Speaking on Capitol Hill Wednesday, General Petraeus, the commanding general of the U.S. Central Command, said he fully supports President Barack Obama's decision to deploy an additional 30,000 U.S. troops to Afghanistan.
  • 星期三,擔任美國中央司令部司令的彼得雷烏斯將軍在國會山作證時說,他完全支援歐巴馬總統向阿富汗增兵 3 萬人的決定。

  •   General Petraeus said the situation in Afghanistan is likely to get harder before it gets easier, but success is possible.
  • 彼得雷烏斯將軍說,阿富汗的局勢在好轉前會變得更加艱難,但是成功是可能的。

  •   He said the new policy will enable U.S. forces to make important progress over the next 18 months.
  • 他說,新政策將讓美軍在接下來的 18 個月取得重要進展。

  •   The general appeared before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee Wednesday alongside the U.S. ambassador to Afghanistan, Karl Eikenberry.
  • 彼得雷烏斯將軍星期三和美國駐阿富汗大使艾肯伯里一起在參議院外交委員會出席作證。

  •   Eikenberry, who previously questioned aspects of a troop buildup, reiterated his support for the president's new strategy in his second straight day of questioning by lawmakers.
  • 艾肯伯里最初質疑增兵的情況。但是星期二在連續第二天就總統新策略接受議員質詢時,他重申支援歐巴馬總統的新戰略。

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  • Militants Blow Up Two Schools in Pakistan
  • 激進分子炸毀巴基斯坦兩所學校
  •   Pakistani officials say militants have dynamited two boys schools in the northwestern Khyber region.
  • 巴基斯坦官員說,激進分子在西北部開柏地區炸毀了兩所男校。

  •   Officials say no one was injured in the early Wednesday attacks in Bara, a town about 20 kilometers south of Peshawar.
  • 官員說,星期三早晨在白沙瓦以南約 20 公里處的巴拉鎮發生的襲擊沒有造成人員傷亡。

  •   Wazir, Khyber's top administrative official, says the blasts destroyed both main school buildings.
  • 開柏行政首長瓦齊爾說,爆炸摧毀了兩所學校的主要建築。

  •   There have been no claims of responsibility but Wazir blames fighters allied with the Taliban and a local militant group called Lashkar-e-Islam (Army of Islam).
  • 目前尚沒有人宣佈對此負責,但是瓦齊爾指責同塔利班有關聯的戰鬥人員,以及當地一個激進組織伊斯蘭軍應為此事負責。

  •   Al-Qaida and Taliban-linked militants have destroyed hundreds of mostly girls schools across the country.
  • 基地組織以及同塔利班有聯繫的激進分子已經損毀了全國數百間學校,其中大部分是女子學校。

  •   Meanwhile, the Pakistani army has released an assessment of its two-month old offensive against militants in the South Waziristan tribal region.
  • 與此同時,巴基斯坦軍方公佈了兩個月來在南瓦齊里斯坦部落地區對激進分子展開攻勢的軍事評估。

  •   In a Wednesday statement, the army says 79 security forces and 589 suspected militants have been killed in the operation.
  • 在星期三的聲明中,軍方說,有 79 名安全部隊成員和 589 名激進分子嫌疑人在行動中喪生。

  •   The military also reported recovering hundreds of pistols and rifles, several hundred rockets and missiles and more than 200,000 machine gun rounds.
  • 軍方還報告說,他們繳獲了數百把手槍、步槍、數百枚火箭彈、導彈以及超過 20 萬發的機關槍子彈。

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