PBS高端访谈:阿富汗喀布尔发生自杀式炸弹袭击

 　　The situation is deteriorating¹ day by day. Those were the words of one of Afghanistan's lawmakers after a huge truck bomb devastated² part of Kabul today.

　　It killed at least 90 people, and wounded 400 more. Chief foreign affairs correspondent Margaret Warner has our report.

　　A pall³ of black smoke, sirens wailing⁴, chaos⁵ in the streets. A gigantic suicide bomb had detonated in the highly secured heart of the Afghan capital.

　　The tremendous force of the blast gouged⁶ out a 15-foot crater⁷ and blew out windows as far as half-a-mile away.

　　The explosion took place the minute we sat down. After the explosion, we hurried downstairs and saw all the things damaged. Many buildings were badly destroyed.

　　Special correspondent Jennifer Glasse in Kabul, who spoke⁸ to us via Skype, said the bombing came as a jolt⁹.

　　It's been quiet here in the Afghan capital for the last couple of weeks, almost eerily¹⁰ quiet.

　　The weather's been beautiful. People have been going out for picnics.

　　The scale of this attack is really unprecedented¹¹, the worst we believe since 2001, and that is such a terrible, terrible shock to people.

　　The bomb hidden in a septic tank cleaning truck rocked the diplomatic quarter at the height of morning rush hour.

　　Despite its fortified¹² blast wall, Germany's embassy suffered extensive damage.

　　The bomb site was also close to the Afghan presidential palace and defense¹³ ministry¹⁴.

　　The U.S. Embassy is about a mile away, yet 11 American contractors¹⁵ were hurt.

　　Scores of the wounded were rushed to nearby hospitals, where some told of surviving the blast.

　　Everything was destroyed in my location. I don't know what happened.

　　There were lots of workers. A lot of people were martyred. All the people who were on the street were killed.

　　In Nuremberg, German Chancellor¹⁶ Angela Merkel condemned¹⁷ the attack.

　　In moments like these, it is once again clear to us that terrorism knows no boundaries.

　　All of us who believe in the rights, the freedom and the dignity of mankind in Europe, America, in Africa,

　　and of course also in Afghanistan will wage the battle against terrorists and we will win.

　　Today's bombing is just the latest in a string of attacks that have racked the Afghan capital. Security conditions have deteriorated¹⁸ sharply.

　　And hundreds of Afghans have been killed in bombings from both a resurgent Taliban and a growing faction¹⁹ of the Islamic State.

　　Jennifer Glasse says the Afghan security forces' failure to protect them have roiled²⁰ the country's citizens.

　　There's a lot of anger here among the Afghan people. How this large truck got into this part of Kabul, heavily fortified

　　you're not allowed to have big trucks in the center of Kabul during the daytime for security reasons and for traffic reasons.

　　And so there are a lot of questions among the Afghan people how this could have possibly happened.

　　The Taliban denied responsibility for today's blast, and in fact condemned it.

　　We have seen this before, especially in cases where there have been large civilian²¹ causalities and a potential for a public backlash,

　　that the Taliban, sometimes, even when they have carried out the attack, deny that the attack was theirs.

　　Afghan troops have suffered heavy losses over the past year, as the Taliban has made gains across the countryside.

　　Now the Trump²² administration has signaled it plans to take a more aggressive role there.

　　Reports surfaced earlier this month that the president is considering sending 5,000 more U.S. troops to support the 8,000 already on the ground.

　　Again, Jennifer Glasse: The idea is to get more international forces a little closer to the ground level to guide the Afghan security forces in the field, to get them a little bit more coordinated²³,

　　and to make them a little more effective in the fight against the Taliban.

　　They're right now taking punishing casualties, losing 15, sometimes 20 soldiers a day across the country.

　　The U.S. also has stepped up airstrikes and raids against the Islamic State group that's now active in Eastern Afghanistan.

　　Last month, in a highly publicized move, the U.S. dropped its most powerful conventional bomb on ISIS hideout there.

　　For the PBS NewsHour, I'm Margaret Warner. undefined

1 deteriorating   

恶化，变坏( deteriorate的现在分词 )

参考例句：

• The weather conditions are deteriorating. 天气变得越来越糟。
• I was well aware of the bad morale and the deteriorating factories. 我很清楚，大家情绪低落，各个工厂越搞越坏。

2 devastated   

v.彻底破坏( devastate的过去式和过去分词)；摧毁；毁灭；在感情上（精神上、财务上等）压垮adj.毁坏的；极为震惊的

参考例句：

• The bomb devastated much of the old part of the city. 这颗炸弹炸毁了旧城的一大片地方。
• His family is absolutely devastated. 他的一家感到极为震惊。

3 pall   

v.覆盖，使平淡无味；n.柩衣，棺罩；棺材；帷幕

参考例句：

• Already the allure of meals in restaurants had begun to pall.饭店里的饭菜已经不像以前那样诱人。
• I find his books begin to pall on me after a while.我发觉他的书读过一阵子就开始对我失去吸引力。

4 wailing   

v.哭叫，哀号( wail的现在分词 )；沱

参考例句：

• A police car raced past with its siren wailing. 一辆警车鸣着警报器飞驰而过。
• The little girl was wailing miserably. 那小女孩难过得号啕大哭。

5 chaos   

n.混乱，无秩序

参考例句：

• After the failure of electricity supply the city was in chaos.停电后，城市一片混乱。
• The typhoon left chaos behind it.台风后一片混乱。

6 gouged   

v.凿( gouge的过去式和过去分词 )；乱要价；（在…中）抠出…；挖出…

参考例句：

• The lion's claws had gouged a wound in the horse's side. 狮爪在马身一侧抓了一道深口。
• The lovers gouged out their names on the tree. 情人们把他们的名字刻在树上。 来自《现代英汉综合大词典》

7 crater   

n.火山口，弹坑

参考例句：

• With a telescope you can see the huge crater of Ve-suvius.用望远镜你能看到巨大的维苏威火山口。
• They came to the lip of a dead crater.他们来到了一个死火山口。

8 spoke   

n.（车轮的）辐条；轮辐；破坏某人的计划；阻挠某人的行动 v.讲，谈（speak的过去式）；说；演说；从某种观点来说

参考例句：

• They sourced the spoke nuts from our company.他们的轮辐螺帽是从我们公司获得的。
• The spokes of a wheel are the bars that connect the outer ring to the centre.辐条是轮子上连接外圈与中心的条棒。

9 jolt   

v.（使）摇动，（使）震动，（使）颠簸

参考例句：

• We were worried that one tiny jolt could worsen her injuries.我们担心稍微颠簸一下就可能会使她的伤势恶化。
• They were working frantically in the fear that an aftershock would jolt the house again.他们拼命地干着，担心余震可能会使房子再次受到震动。

10 eerily   

adv.引起神秘感或害怕地

参考例句：

• It was nearly mid-night and eerily dark all around her. 夜深了，到处是一片黑黝黝的怪影。 来自汉英文学 - 散文英译
• The vast volcanic slope was eerily reminiscent of a lunar landscape. 开阔的火山坡让人心生怪异地联想起月球的地貌。 来自辞典例句

11 unprecedented   

adj.无前例的，新奇的

参考例句：

• The air crash caused an unprecedented number of deaths.这次空难的死亡人数是空前的。
• A flood of this sort is really unprecedented.这样大的洪水真是十年九不遇。

12 fortified   

adj. 加强的

参考例句：

• He fortified himself against the cold with a hot drink. 他喝了一杯热饮御寒。
• The enemy drew back into a few fortified points. 敌人收缩到几个据点里。

13 defense   

n.防御，保卫；[pl.]防务工事；辩护，答辩

参考例句：

• The accused has the right to defense.被告人有权获得辩护。
• The war has impacted the area with military and defense workers.战争使那个地区挤满了军队和防御工程人员。

14 ministry   

n.(政府的)部；牧师

参考例句：

• They sent a deputation to the ministry to complain.他们派了一个代表团到部里投诉。
• We probed the Air Ministry statements.我们调查了空军部的记录。

15 contractors   

n.（建筑、监造中的）承包人( contractor的名词复数 )

参考例句：

• We got estimates from three different contractors before accepting the lowest. 我们得到3个承包商的报价后，接受了最低的报价。 来自《简明英汉词典》
• Contractors winning construction jobs had to kick back 2 per cent of the contract price to the mafia. 赢得建筑工作的承包商得抽出合同价格的百分之二的回扣给黑手党。 来自《简明英汉词典》

16 chancellor   

n.(英)大臣；法官；(德、奥)总理；大学校长

参考例句：

• They submitted their reports to the Chancellor yesterday.他们昨天向财政大臣递交了报告。
• He was regarded as the most successful Chancellor of modern times.他被认为是现代最成功的财政大臣。

17 condemned   

adj. 被责难的, 被宣告有罪的 动词condemn的过去式和过去分词

参考例句：

• He condemned the hypocrisy of those politicians who do one thing and say another. 他谴责了那些说一套做一套的政客的虚伪。
• The policy has been condemned as a regressive step. 这项政策被认为是一种倒退而受到谴责。

18 deteriorated   

恶化，变坏( deteriorate的过去式和过去分词 )

参考例句：

• Her health deteriorated rapidly, and she died shortly afterwards. 她的健康状况急剧恶化，不久便去世了。
• His condition steadily deteriorated. 他的病情恶化，日甚一日。

19 faction   

n.宗派，小集团；派别；派系斗争

参考例句：

• Faction and self-interest appear to be the norm.派系之争和自私自利看来非常普遍。
• I now understood clearly that I was caught between the king and the Bunam's faction.我现在完全明白自己已陷入困境，在国王与布纳姆集团之间左右为难。

20 roiled   

v.搅混（液体）( roil的过去式和过去分词 )；使烦恼；使不安；使生气

参考例句：

• American society is being roiled by the controversy over homosexual marriage. 当今美国社会正被有关同性恋婚姻的争论搞得不得安宁。 来自互联网
• In the past few months, instability has roiled Tibet and Tibetan-inhabited areas. 在过去的几个月里，西藏和藏人居住区不稳定。 来自互联网

21 civilian   

adj.平民的，民用的，民众的

参考例句：

• There is no reliable information about civilian casualties.关于平民的伤亡还没有确凿的信息。
• He resigned his commission to take up a civilian job.他辞去军职而从事平民工作。

22 trump   

n.王牌，法宝；v.打出王牌，吹喇叭

参考例句：

• He was never able to trump up the courage to have a showdown.他始终鼓不起勇气摊牌。
• The coach saved his star player for a trump card.教练保留他的明星选手，作为他的王牌。

23 coordinated   

adj.协调的

参考例句：

• The sound has to be coordinated with the picture. 声音必须和画面协调一致。
• The numerous existing statutes are complicated and poorly coordinated. 目前繁多的法令既十分复杂又缺乏快调。 来自英汉非文学 - 环境法 - 环境法