(单词翻译:单击)
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A new report suggests Mexico's violent drug wars made it the second-deadliest conflict zone in the world last year.
一份新的报告表明,去年墨西哥的暴力毒品战争使其成为世界上第二致命冲突区。
According to The International Institute for Strategic Studies, there were about 23,000 homicides in Mexico in 2016.
根据国际战略研究所,2016年墨西哥大约有23,000起凶杀案。
That death toll surpassed those in both Afghanistan and Iraq.
死亡人数超过了阿富汗和伊拉克。
And it was second only to Syria, where the country's civil war left around 50,000 people dead.
这仅次于叙利亚,该国的内战造成约50,000人死亡。

The report's authors say that's pretty shocking, considering the drug wars in Mexico are being waged without artillery, tanks or combat aviation.
该报告的作者表示,这是相当令人震惊的,考虑到墨西哥毒品战争没有涉及大炮、坦克和航空战斗。
Instead, nearly all of the country's conflict deaths can be attributed to small arms.
相反,几乎所有的国家冲突死亡归因于小型武器。
Mexico's war on drug trafficking has been raging since 2006, and it has been compounded by drug cartels fighting each other for control.
自2006年以来,墨西哥对毒品走私的战争一直在激烈进行,而且贩毒集团为了获得控制相互争斗。
Experts estimate at least 80,000 people have been killed in crime-related incidents in the last decade.
专家估计在过去十年中至少有80,000人死于与犯罪有关的事件。
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词汇解析
1、surpass
超过;胜过;优于
He was determined to surpass the achievements of his older brothers.
他决心超越几个哥哥的成就。
Warwick Arts Centre is the second largest Arts Centre in Britain, surpassed in size only by London's Barbican.
沃里克艺术中心是英国第二大艺术中心,规模仅次于伦敦的巴比肯。
远远超出(预期)
Conrad Black gave an excellent party that surpassed expectations.
康拉德·布莱克举办了一次远超人们预期的精彩聚会。
超出(理解范围)
a clever and spectacularly successful system, the detailed complexity of which surpasses our full understanding.
一个设计巧妙且极其成功的系统,其复杂的细节非我辈所能完全理解
2、combat
战斗
Over 16 million men had died in combat.
1,600多万人在战斗中牺牲。
Yesterday saw hand-to-hand combat in the city.
昨天该市发生了肉搏战。
与…作斗争;打击
Congress has criticised new government measures to combat crime.
国会对政府打击犯罪的新措施提出了批评。
斗争;格斗
It was the end of a long combat.
这是一场长期斗争的结束。
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