外国代表访美探讨打击极端主义

外国代表访美探讨打击极端主义

STATE DEPARTMENT— High-level representatives from 11 of the countries involved in U.S.-led coalition¹ against the Islamic State group are on a U.S. tour sponsored by the State Department in an effort to combat violent extremism.

参加美国以为首反对IS组织联盟的11个国家的高级代表们得到国务院的赞助访问美国。

They are meeting with government and leading technology officials in Washington, New York and San Francisco to explore ways to counter the militant² group’s propaganda and its appeal to some foreigners.

他们将在华盛顿、纽约和旧金山会见政府官员和科技官员，探索对付武装组织宣传和吸引一些外国人的手段。

More than 3,000 Moroccans have joined Islamic State militants³ in Iraq and Syria, said Moroccan parliament member Mohammed Benkhaldoun, who is taking part in the tour.

已有300多名摩洛哥人参加了伊拉克和叙利亚的IS武装，参加此次访问的摩洛哥议员穆罕默德如说是。

“The main reasons are unemployment and poverty," he said. "As you know, most of these guys are looking for a better life and they can not find that in their own countries.”

“主要原因是失业和贫困，要知道，大多数参加者都在寻找更好的生活，但他们无法在本国找到。”

Islamic State militants have successfully used social media to appeal to foreigners who think the group will offer them more out of life, said Egypt’s security studies director Khaled Okasha.

IS武装成功地利用社交媒体吸引了一些外国人，让他们认为该组织将给他们提供更好的生活，埃及安全研究主任哈立德·奥卡沙说。

“They target young people who possibly like adventure, to do new things, and possibly have also violence inside of them and they want them to express violence,” he said.

“他们针对那些可能喜欢冒险、做新奇事情、可能有暴力倾向的年轻人，希望他们能将暴力表达出来。”

U.S. officials estimate more than 20,000 foreigners have joined the Islamic State, including about 3,400 from Western nations.

美国官方估计已有两万多名外国人参加了IS组织，其中包括3400人来自西方国家。

Among them is the so-called “Jihadi John” who has appeared in several Islamic State beheading videos and is believed to be British, and three teenage girls who flew from London to Turkey for what investigators⁴ believe was a bid to join the Islamic State.

其中就有所谓的“圣战·约翰”，他出现在IS的几个砍头视频中，据悉他是英国人，还有三名女孩从伦敦飞往土耳其，调查者认为她们是为了加入IS而去。

To counter the narratives⁵ of violent extremists, the State Department is helping⁶ foreign governments use traditional and social media to tell the stories of communities affected⁷ by militant violence, said the State Department's Muslim communities special representative Shaarik Zafar.

为了对付暴力极端分子的宣传，国务院将使用传统和社交媒体帮助外国政府宣传受武装暴力影响社区的故事，国务院穆斯林社区特别代表Shaarik Zafar说。

He said there are other important stories of "people who are defectors" who, by choice or by force, went and "fought with these groups and then they realize[d]: ‘Wow, this is not what I signed up for.’ Those can be very effective stories."

他说还有其他“变节者”的重要故事，他们或者是自己选择，或者处于被迫，前去“为这些组织而战，然后他们意识到‘这不是我选择加入的目的。’这些故事都很管用。”

 

He said part of the U.S. effort of challenging the Islamic State group’s ideology⁸ involves exposing its flaws.

他说，美国对付IS组织思想意识的办法之一就是揭露其弱点。

1 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。

2 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。

3 militants   

激进分子，好斗分子( militant的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• The militants have been sporadically fighting the government for years. 几年来，反叛分子一直对政府实施零星的战斗。
• Despite the onslaught, Palestinian militants managed to fire off rockets. 尽管如此，巴勒斯坦的激进分子仍然发射导弹。

4 investigators   

n.调查者，审查者( investigator的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• This memo could be the smoking gun that investigators have been looking for. 这份备忘录可能是调查人员一直在寻找的证据。
• The team consisted of six investigators and two secretaries. 这个团队由六个调查人员和两个秘书组成。 来自《简明英汉词典》

5 narratives   

记叙文( narrative的名词复数 )； 故事； 叙述； 叙述部分

参考例句：

• Marriage, which has been the bourne of so many narratives, is still a great beginning. 结婚一向是许多小说的终点，然而也是一个伟大的开始。
• This is one of the narratives that children are fond of. 这是孩子们喜欢的故事之一。

6 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。

7 affected   

adj.不自然的，假装的

参考例句：

• She showed an affected interest in our subject.她假装对我们的课题感到兴趣。
• His manners are affected.他的态度不自然。

8 ideology   

n.意识形态，(政治或社会的)思想意识

参考例句：

• The ideology has great influence in the world.这种思想体系在世界上有很大的影响。
• The ideal is to strike a medium between ideology and inspiration.我的理想是在意识思想和灵感鼓动之间找到一个折衷。