VOA常速英语:Repeated Use of Chemical Weapons by Assad(翻译)

A report by the United Nations and the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, the OPCW,has confirmed that the Assad regime repeatedly used chemical weapons in Syria in 2014 and 2015.ISIL was also found to have used mustard gas in an attack in 2015.The year-long, UN-backed investigation looked into nine cases of use or likely use of chemical weapons,and was able – so far -- to determine responsibility for three of them.
一份由联合国以及“化学武器禁止组织（OPCW）”发布的报告证实了阿萨德政权于2014到2015年期间，在叙利亚多次使用化学武器。伊斯兰国也被发现在2015年的袭击中使用过芥子气。这场调查历时一年，由联合国支持进行，调查了9起使用或可能使用过化学武器的案件，并且到目前为止，可以确定其中三起案件的确使用过化学武器。

“It is now impossible to deny that the Syrian regime has repeatedly used industrial chlorine as a weapon against its own people,” said U.S. National Security Council spokesman Ned Price in a statement.“We condemn [these actions] in the strongest possible terms.”
“现在这件事再也无法被否认了，叙利亚政权曾经多次使用工业氯气作为武器来对付自己的人民，”美国国家安全委员会发言人奈德·普赖斯在一份声明中如是说道。“我们严厉谴责这种行为。”

In 2013, in a deal brokered by Russia and the United States, President Bashar Assad agreed to hand over his entire stockpile of chemical weapons and to join the Chemical Weapons Convention. The continued use in Syria of toxic chemicals as weapons led to the adoption of UN Security Council Resolution 2209 citing such use as a violation of resolution 2118 and the Chemical Weapons Convention.
2013年，在一份由俄美两国促成的协议中，叙利亚总统巴沙尔·阿萨德同意交出全部化学武器库存，并且签署加入《化学武器公约》。由于在叙利亚持续地将有毒化学物质当做武器来使用，从而促使联合国安理会通过了第2209号决议，裁定这种行为违反了安理会第2118号决议、以及《化学武器公约》。

White House Spokesman Josh Earnest called Assad’s weaponization of chlorine an act “of indiscriminate violence against his own people:”
白宫发言人乔希·欧内斯特将阿萨德把氯气作为武器的行为称之为“对自己人民滥用暴力”。

“That’s consistent with the tactics we’ve seen previously, including the targeting of medical facilities and the dropping of barrel bombs out of helicopters, even in places where the Assad regime knows that civilians are located.”
“那和我们以前见识过的战术如出一辙，包括针对医疗设施进行攻击、以及用直升机投掷油桶炸弹，即使在那些阿萨德政府知道有平民的地方也是如此。”

In a statement, U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Samantha Power said that the OPCW-U.N. report “has now confirmed a pattern of use of chemical weapons by the Syrian regime that mirrors numerous other confirmed cases of chemical weapons use across Syria. This horrific and continuous use of chemical weapons by Syria represents the greatest challenge to the legitimacy of the [Chemical Weapons Convention] since it entered into force,and an affront to a century’s worth of efforts to create and enforce an international norm against the use of chemical weapons.”
在一份声明中，美国驻联合国大使萨曼莎·鲍尔表示说，化学武器禁止组织和联合国的报告“证实了阿萨德政权使用化学武器的事实，间接反映出了叙利亚许多其他经证实的化学武器使用案例。化学武器可怕而又连续地在叙利亚使用，显示出《化学武器公约》面临着自其生效以来合法化问题方面最大的挑战，这是对长达一个世纪以来创造、执行反对使用化学武器国际准则的努力的侮辱。”

Ambassador Power said, “It is essential that the members of the Security Council come together to ensure consequences for those who have used chemical weapons in Syria. It is essential that all state and non-state actors immediately cease any chemical weapons use. We strongly urge all States to support strong and swift action by the Security Council.”
鲍尔大使说道：“安理会成员国的通力合作必不可少，从而确保那些在叙利亚使用化学武器的人受到应有的制裁。对于所有的国家和非国家行为者来说，立即停止所有化学武器的使用同样非常重要。我们竭力主张所有国家都支持安理会采取有力而又迅速的行动。”