PBS高端访谈:安全部队撤离后,伊拉克重镇拉马迪被ISIS攻入

 　　HARI SREENIVASAN: For the latest on the events in Ramadi, we are joined now via Skype from Baghdad by Nour Malas of The Wall Street Journal.

　　First of all, what is the significance of the fall of Ramadi?

　　NOUR MALAS, The Wall Street Journal: This puts another major Iraqi city in the hands of Islamic State.

　　It already controls Mosul, Iraq's second largest city. And now Ramadi is the capital of Iraq's largest province.

　　It's also a huge setback¹ for the government campaign launched last month to reclaim² Anbar province, which is really Iraq's Sunni heartland.

　　It is a huge province — province bordering Baghdad. It borders Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Syria as well.

　　We got urgent reports from police members fleeing the city today as Islamic State took over the last government base there, a operations command center.

　　Some of the people we were talking to saying they were stepping over the bodies of their comrades as they fled, saying that though Baghdad had sent reinforcements, many of them ended up in the hands of Islamic State, armored vehicles, weapons caches, basically as they just stampeded the last government strongholds in Ramadi.

　　HARI SREENIVASAN: Is there concern that it might take Iranian-backed militias³ to fight Islamic State?

　　NOUR MALAS: It's already taken that.

　　The prime minister, as Ramadi was falling today, called in the mostly Shia paramilitary forces into Ramadi to help revert⁴ the loss.

　　This was a major and controversial move that the government had been thinking about for many weeks. It's controversial because Ramadi, and Anbar province more broadly, is mostly Sunni.

　　And there are concerns over calling in Shiite forces to take part in the fight. It's also a blow to the government, which has been trying to prove that it can carry out this fight with regular forces on its own.

　　HARI SREENIVASAN: All right, Nour Malas of The Wall Street Journal joining us via Skype from Baghdad, thanks so much.

　　NOUR MALAS: Thank you.

1 setback   

n.退步，挫折，挫败

参考例句：

• 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 reclaim   

v.要求归还，收回；开垦

参考例句：

• I have tried to reclaim my money without success.我没能把钱取回来。
• You must present this ticket when you reclaim your luggage.当你要取回行李时，必须出示这张票子。

3 militias   

n.民兵组织，民兵( militia的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The troops will not attempt to disarm the warring militias. 部队并不打算解除战斗中的民兵武装。 来自辞典例句
• The neighborhood was a battleground for Shiite and Sunni militias. 那里曾是什叶派和逊尼派武装分子的战场。 来自互联网

4 revert   

v.恢复，复归，回到

参考例句：

• Let us revert to the earlier part of the chapter.让我们回到本章的前面部分。
• Shall we revert to the matter we talked about yesterday?我们接着昨天谈过的问题谈，好吗？