英伦广角 2012-09-08 驻阿富汗英军回家与家人团聚

 After 7 arduous¹ months away from home, their faces say it at all. It’s good to be back. 

        4 months.

        Really, that daddy is OK.

        And for this soldier, it’s a chance to meet his 3-week-old son for the first time. 

        So proud.

        These soldiers are the first company from 3rd Battalion² the Yorkshire Regiment³ to return from Afghanistan after their latest tour of duty.

        Just a tip say we’re emotionally yes. Yeah, brilliant.

        Spiritually relief.

        Yeah.

        Big relief. Good to be home, a long time haven’t seen them.

        Proud of him.

        Yeah, proud of him.

        Inevitably⁴ though this reunion was tinged⁵ with sadness. These 6 men should be here too. Sergeant⁶ Nigel Coupe, Corporal Jake Hartley, Private Anthony Frampton, Private Christopher Kershaw, Private Daniel Wade⁷ and Private Daniel Wilford were all killed in March in the single deadliest attack on British forces since operations began in Afghanistan in 2001. The armored vehicle they were travelling in hit a lethal⁸ RED in Helmond Province.

        It happens just a week after these riflemen arrived in Lashkargah, it was a huge blow from Iran making their job far harder. And if the families left waiting at home, I mean they’re safer at home just couldn’t come soon enough. 

        Although we’re prepared or as we’re mentally prepared that all we will be taken to hospital or to be casualties nothing can prepare you of the tragedy that hits us. However, as it said we had 6 months and in order to make that 6 months worth well and ensure the guards hadn’t you know, deaf for no reason. We had to push on, we had to take the fight back to the enemy. 

        And continuing their fight in Afghanistan are the remainder of the Battalion, a further 400 riflemen will return to scenes like this next month.

        Isabel Webster, Sky News in Warminster.

1 arduous   

adj.艰苦的，费力的，陡峭的

参考例句：

• We must have patience in doing arduous work.我们做艰苦的工作要有耐性。
• The task was more arduous than he had calculated.这项任务比他所估计的要艰巨得多。

2 battalion   

n.营；部队；大队(的人)

参考例句：

• The town was garrisoned by a battalion.该镇由一营士兵驻守。
• At the end of the drill parade,the battalion fell out.操练之后，队伍解散了。

3 regiment   

n.团，多数，管理；v.组织，编成团，统制

参考例句：

• As he hated army life,he decide to desert his regiment.因为他嫌恶军队生活，所以他决心背弃自己所在的那个团。
• They reformed a division into a regiment.他们将一个师整编成为一个团。

4 inevitably   

adv.不可避免地；必然发生地

参考例句：

• In the way you go on,you are inevitably coming apart.照你们这样下去，毫无疑问是会散伙的。
• Technological changes will inevitably lead to unemployment.技术变革必然会导致失业。

5 tinged   

v.（使）发丁丁声( ting的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• memories tinged with sadness 略带悲伤的往事
• white petals tinged with blue 略带蓝色的白花瓣

6 sergeant   

n.警官，中士

参考例句：

• His elder brother is a sergeant.他哥哥是个警官。
• How many stripes are there on the sleeve of a sergeant?陆军中士的袖子上有多少条纹？

7 wade   

v.跋涉，涉水；n.跋涉

参考例句：

• We had to wade through the river to the opposite bank.我们只好涉水过河到对岸。
• We cannot but wade across the river.我们只好趟水过去。

8 lethal   

adj.致死的；毁灭性的

参考例句：

• A hammer can be a lethal weapon.铁锤可以是致命的武器。
• She took a lethal amount of poison and died.她服了致命剂量的毒药死了。