VOA慢速英语--以雅兹迪人交换IS犯人

AS IT IS 2016-03-31 Yazidis Exchanged for IS Prisoners 以雅兹迪人交换IS犯人

More than 50 Yazidi women and children were exchanged last week for Islamic State prisoners held by Kurdish forces in Syria.

Two IS commanders were exchanged for the women and children.

Kurds holding the two were part of the armed wing of the Syrian Kurdish Democratic Union Party, known as the YPG.

The women and children were returned home to Sinjar in northern Iraq. Sinjar is the main city for Yazidis in Iraq. It was liberated² from IS last year by Kurdish Peshmerga forces. Those fighters are supported by the U.S.-led coalition³.

The Yazidis were taken from the same town 19 months ago, according to a Kurdish news agency.

“I have talked to some of them yesterday,” said Dawud Sheik Kalo, a Yazidi fighter. He said the women and children are safe.

A former prisoner told the Kurdish news agency she spent nine months in Iraq and 11 months in Syria.

A teenage Yazidi girl said her family was taken by IS.

“After we got to Syria, they separated the men from us,” she said. Media reports made no mention of Yazidi men being a part of the exchange. 

Thousands of Yazidis were abducted⁵ or killed by IS in northern Iraq beginning in 2014. Women and girls were forced into sexual slavery by IS members, human rights groups say.

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liberate¹ – v. to free someone or something from being controlled by another person or group?

abduct⁴ – v. to take someone away from a place by force

1 liberate   

v.解放，使获得自由，释出，放出；vt.解放，使获自由

参考例句：

• They did their best to liberate slaves.他们尽最大能力去解放奴隶。
• This will liberate him from economic worry.这将消除他经济上的忧虑。

2 liberated   

a.无拘束的，放纵的

参考例句：

• The city was liberated by the advancing army. 军队向前挺进，解放了那座城市。
• The heat brings about a chemical reaction, and oxygen is liberated. 热量引起化学反应，释放出氧气。

3 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。

4 abduct   

vt.诱拐，拐带，绑架

参考例句：

• The police caught the man who tried to abduct the boy for ransom.警察抓住了那个企图拐走这男孩以便勒索赎金的家伙。
• The news that we see those use network abduct children sometimes filled with apprehension.我们有时看到那些利用网络诱拐儿童的新闻都心惊肉跳。

5 abducted   

劫持，诱拐( abduct的过去式和过去分词 )； 使（肢体等）外展

参考例句：

• Detectives have not ruled out the possibility that she was abducted. 侦探尚未排除她被绑架的可能性。
• The kid was abducted at the gate of kindergarten. 那小孩在幼儿园大门口被绑架走了。