新聞英文解析 敘利亞內戰結束
The Syrian, government 50-year-ruled by the Bashar al-Assad family, fell early Sunday (Dec. 08) in a stunning end after a sudden rebel offensive sprinted across government-held territory and entered the capital in 10 days.
叛軍在10 天內衝過政府控制區並進入首都後,週日(十二月八日)突然發動攻勢,巴沙爾·阿薩德家族統治50年的敘利亞政府令人震驚地結束。
stunning:(a.)令人震驚的
rebel:(n.)背叛者;造反者
rebel尤其是指試圖武裝推翻國家政治制度的反抗者或對抗權威或社會的叛逆者,通常是武裝叛軍
offensive:(n.)軍事進攻;攻勢
sprint:(v.)短距離衝刺
territory:(n.)領土
capital:(n.)首都
補充說明:敘利亞內戰敘利亞總統巴沙爾·阿薩德支持者與敘利亞革命反對派等多股勢力之間的武裝衝突,該內戰始自於2011年至今。
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The rapid advance of the rebel has caught much of the world off guard. Syrian rebels have declared the tyrant Bashar al-Assad has been overthrown and the capital Damascus “liberated” after entering the city. The oppressed prisoners have been released from the notorious Saydnaya prison, where rights groups say thousands were tortured and killed.
叛亂分子進攻的速度之快讓世界上許多人措手不及,敘利亞叛軍在進入首都大馬士革後宣布暴君巴沙爾·阿薩德下台及首都大馬士革「解放」,叛亂分子表示,關押在臭名昭著的賽德納亞監獄的人被釋放,人權組織稱有數千人在該監獄遭受酷刑和殺害。
advance:(n.)前進
declare:(v.)宣稱
tyrant:(n.)暴君
overthrown:(v.-pp.)被(武力)推翻
liberated:(v.)被解放
oppressed:(a.)被壓迫的
notorious:(a.)惡名昭彰的
torture:(v.)拷打;折磨
Syrian had been buffeted and fractured by more than a decade of civil war. The removal of Assad would bring not only an end to his family's autocratic rule of the nation of about 23 million more than half of the century but also about a stunning reordering of power in a Middle Eastern nation that has long been at the crossroads of a regional power struggle. Both Iran and Russia were supporters of the Assad regime and helped keep him in power during a grueling civil war that sparked one of the world's largest recent refugee crises.
十多年來,敘利亞一直受到內戰的衝擊和分裂。阿薩德的下台不僅將結束其家族對這個擁有約2300萬人口的國家50多年的獨裁統治並且為這個長期處於區域權力鬥爭交叉點的中東國家帶來了令人震驚的權力重組。伊朗和俄羅斯都是阿薩德政權的支持者,並幫助他在一場殘酷的內戰中繼續掌權,這場內戰引發了近期世界上最大的難民危機之一。
buffet:(v.)風、雨等連續猛擊或打擊
fracture:(v.)使(組織或社團)分裂;解體
decade:(n.)十年
removal:(n.)去除;免職
autocratic:(a.)專制的;獨裁的
reordering:(n.)重新安排
crossroad:(n.)十字路口;交叉點
struggle:(n.)奮鬥;(面對困難而需要的)努力
regime:(n.)政體
grueling:(a.)使人筋疲力盡的;艱辛的;讓人受不了的
spark:(v.)導致;觸發(尤指鬥爭與打鬥)
refugee:(n.)難民
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Since Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, the Islamist group that led the offensive to topple Assad, is still designated as a terrorist organization by the U.N., U.S. and others, efforts by the U.N. and others to build a successful transitional government will be complicated, despite the group's leader, Abu Mohammed al-Golani, has sought to present a far more moderate face in recent months. The government was ready to “extend its hand” to the opposition and turn its functions over to a transitional government, said Syrian Prime Minister Mohammed Ghazi Jalali.
因為領導推翻阿薩德攻勢的伊斯蘭沙姆解放組織(Hayat Tahrir al-Sham) 仍被聯合國、美國和其他組織認定為恐怖組織,這將使聯合國和其他組織建立成功過渡政府的努力變得更加複雜。儘管該組織的領導人阿布·穆罕默德·戈拉尼 (Abu Mohammed al-Golani) 最近幾個月一直試圖表現出更溫和的一面。敘利亞總理穆罕默德·加齊·賈拉利表示,政府已準備好向反對派「伸出援手」,並將其職能移交給過渡政府。
Hayat Tahrir al-Sham:(n.)伊斯蘭沙姆解放組織
補充說明:沙姆解放組織於2017年1月28日由征服沙姆陣線與其它一些反政府武裝團體合併而成,活躍於敘利亞內戰,也是現時敘利亞境內單一最大的反巴沙爾政府的武裝團體。
topple:(v.)推翻(首領)或使(政府)倒下
designated:(v.-p.p.)被視為
terrorist:(n.)恐怖份子
transitional:(a.)過渡性的;變遷的
moderate:(a.)溫和的;不偏激
opposition:(n.)反對者