美国有线新闻 CNN 2015-08-29

 Our first story today: headed to the Middle Eastern country of Syria. The nation had been torn apart like civil wars since 2011. One group that is benefited from the instability there is ISIS. It’s a terrorist organization. ISIS standing¹ for Islamic State in Iraq and Syria. That’s what they want, to create a country based on their own severe interpretation³ of Islam. They took over large parts of the region last year. Their notorious for mass murders brutally⁴ killing⁵ civilians⁷, kidnapping people. And though US let coalition⁸ aims to destroy ISIS, most exports say the coalition has a long way to go. This spring the terrorist took over an ancient city called Palmyra. It’s in central Syria. It’s thousands of years old. It’s architecture ruined date back to the first century AD, and ISIS is destroying them. On Tuesday, ISIS supporters post in photos of how the group blow up part of an ancient temple. This part of IS campaign to destroy of 9 months of culture. Though they reportedly level Islamic shrine⁹ as well.

Fighting ISIS is a slow and often quite a tricky¹⁰ thing to do. And one of the reason that why the militant¹¹ group has been so successful is that those combating are often fractured and at odd with one another. First of all, it’s territory spend two countries. So you have two governments, the Iraqi government and the Syrian government, each with their own allies and enemies, trying to deal with the problem. Then you have different interests among the group leading the charge. On the one hand, you have the US and the main European and Iraq allies founding ISIS both in Iraq and Syria. Now, they got a major boost when Turkey joined the coalition, and not just because Turkish war plan started booming ISIS position, but also because Turkey allow the coalition to use the basis inside Turkey like the one in inter² lake. Then you have the Syrians. Their airforce has been notorious for lesslie a lot of civilian⁶ casualties while booming up position controlled areas. But the Syria also conducted many air strikes against ISIS in places like Racca, but also in Palmyra which was counter by militant group. The Syrian government main ally on the ground is Iran, which has been training pro-regime to fight IS and other group. Iran has also helping¹² the Iraqi government organizing * there. Then you have both Syrian and Iraqi curs who made major games against ISIS. But many of these groups and countries simply have no trust in each other and that’s one of the reason why so difficult to start a conservative effort to beat back ISIS.

1 standing   

n.持续，地位；adj.永久的，不动的，直立的，不流动的

参考例句：

• After the earthquake only a few houses were left standing.地震过后只有几幢房屋还立着。
• They're standing out against any change in the law.他们坚决反对对法律做任何修改。

2 inter   

v.埋葬

参考例句：

• They interred their dear comrade in the arms.他们埋葬了他们亲爱的战友。
• The man who died in that accident has been interred.在那次事故中死的那个人已经被埋葬了。

3 interpretation   

n.解释，说明，描述；艺术处理

参考例句：

• His statement admits of one interpretation only.他的话只有一种解释。
• Analysis and interpretation is a very personal thing.分析与说明是个很主观的事情。

4 brutally   

adv.残忍地，野蛮地，冷酷无情地

参考例句：

• The uprising was brutally put down.起义被残酷地镇压下去了。
• A pro-democracy uprising was brutally suppressed.一场争取民主的起义被残酷镇压了。

5 killing   

n.巨额利润；突然赚大钱，发大财

参考例句：

• Investors are set to make a killing from the sell-off.投资者准备清仓以便大赚一笔。
• Last week my brother made a killing on Wall Street.上个周我兄弟在华尔街赚了一大笔。

6 civilian   

adj.平民的，民用的，民众的

参考例句：

• There is no reliable information about civilian casualties.关于平民的伤亡还没有确凿的信息。
• He resigned his commission to take up a civilian job.他辞去军职而从事平民工作。

7 civilians   

平民，百姓( civilian的名词复数 )； 老百姓

参考例句：

• 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。

8 coalition   

n.结合体，同盟，结合，联合

参考例句：

• 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。

9 shrine   

n.圣地，神龛，庙；v.将...置于神龛内，把...奉为神圣

参考例句：

• The shrine was an object of pilgrimage.这处圣地是人们朝圣的目的地。
• They bowed down before the shrine.他们在神龛前鞠躬示敬。

10 tricky   

adj.狡猾的，奸诈的；(工作等)棘手的，微妙的

参考例句：

• I'm in a rather tricky position.Can you help me out?我的处境很棘手，你能帮我吗？
• He avoided this tricky question and talked in generalities.他回避了这个非常微妙的问题，只做了个笼统的表述。

11 militant   

adj.激进的，好斗的；n.激进分子，斗士

参考例句：

• Some militant leaders want to merge with white radicals.一些好斗的领导人要和白人中的激进派联合。
• He is a militant in the movement.他在那次运动中是个激进人物。

12 helping   

n.食物的一份&adj.帮助人的，辅助的

参考例句：

• The poor children regularly pony up for a second helping of my hamburger. 那些可怜的孩子们总是要求我把我的汉堡包再给他们一份。
• By doing this, they may at times be helping to restore competition. 这样一来, 他在某些时候,有助于竞争的加强。