VOA常速英语:Global Coalition to Defeat ISIS Meeting(翻译)

On March 22, U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson presided over a meeting of the 68-member Global Coalition to defeat ISIS and emphasized that the Coalition is unified, remains committed to the military defeat of ISIS, and noted the significant progress that has been made.
3月22日，美国国务卿雷克斯·蒂勒森主持了拥有68名成员的打击伊斯兰国全球联盟会议，并强调联盟是统一的，仍致力于军事打击伊斯兰国，并指出已经取得的重大进展。

On the battlefield, 23 coalition partners have over 9,000 troops in Iraq and Syria in support of the effort to defeat ISIS.The Coalition has made significant progress in denying ISIS safe haven and building the military capacity of those directly engaged in fighting ISIS.
在战场上，23个联盟伙伴在伊拉克和叙利亚部署了9000多名士兵来支持打击伊斯兰国的活动。联盟在拒绝提供避风港给伊斯兰国和为那些直接参与打击伊斯兰国的人建设军事能力方面取得了重大进展。

Coalition operations have liberated 62 percent of the terrain ISIS once controlled in Iraq and 30 percent in Syria, including key cities in both countries.The number of ISIS fighters in Iraq and Syria is down by more than half since its peak in 2014.
联盟行动已经解放了伊斯兰国曾在伊拉克控制的百分之六十二的地区和其在叙利亚控制的百分之三十的地区，包括两国的重要城市。在伊拉克和叙利亚的伊斯兰国士兵的数量自2014年顶峰时期下降了一半多。

Coalition aircraft have conducted more than 19,000 strikes on ISIS targets, removing tens of thousands of ISIS fighters from the battlefield and killing over 180 senior to mid-level ISIS leaders,including nearly all of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s deputies,his so-called ministers of war, information, finance, oil and gas, and his chief of external operations.
联盟飞机对伊斯兰国目标进行了19000多次袭击，在战场上消灭了成千上万名伊斯兰国士兵，并杀死了180多名中高级伊斯兰国领导人，包括几乎所有阿布·巴克尔·巴格达迪的副手，他的所谓战争、信息、财政、石油和天然气的部长，以及其对外行动的负责人。

The Coalition has supported its Iraqi partners to achieve significant progress in the fight to retake Mosul.Iraqi Security Forces officially liberated eastern Mosul on January 24th, 2017, and now are making significant territorial gains in the western portion of the city.
联盟支持其伊拉克伙伴在夺回摩苏尔的战斗中取得重大进展。伊拉克安全部队在2017年1月24日正式解放摩苏尔东部地区，现在正在该城西部地区获得大片领土。

To date, Coalition efforts have trained nearly 90,000 Iraqi Security Force members,including Iraqi Army soldiers, Counterterrorism Services soldiers,Kurdish Peshmerga, federal police and border security soldiers, and tribal volunteers.
迄今为止，联盟努力训练近90000名伊拉克安全部队成员，包括伊拉克军队的士兵、反恐事务士兵、库尔德自由斗士、联邦警察、边境安全士兵和部落志愿者。

With the support of the Coalition, Syrian partners have liberated over 14,000 square kilometers of terrain in Syria,including more than 7,400 square kilometers of territory since isolation operations around Raqqa began on November 5th.
在联盟的帮助下，叙利亚伙伴已经解放了超过14000平方公里的叙利亚领土，包括自去年11月5日开始围绕拉卡独立作战获得的超过7400平方公里的领土。

Coalition forces are now pressuring ISIS in Raqqa, its external operations headquarters, from where ISIS is plotting against Coalition member interests around the globe.
联盟部队目前正向拉卡的伊斯兰国施压，拉卡是伊斯兰国对外行动总部，那里正是伊斯兰国谋划损害全世界联盟成员利益的地方。

"Hard-fought victories in Iraq and Syria have swung the momentum in our coalition’s favor,” says Secretary Tillerson,“but we must increase the intensity of our efforts to solidify our gains in the next phase of the counter-ISIS fight.Degradation of ISIS is not the end goal, we must defeat ISIS.”
“在我们联盟的的支持下，在伊拉克和叙利亚取得的艰难胜利已经扭转了势头，”国务卿蒂勒森说，“但我们必须加强努力以巩固我们在对抗伊斯兰国战争下个阶段的成果。伊斯兰国衰落不是最终目的，我们必须打败它。”