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The chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, General Mark Milley, said Wednesday the Taliban appear to have the "strategic momentum" in their sweeping offensives across Afghanistan but their victory is far from assured.
Speaking at the Pentagon, Milley said the Taliban fighters have made gains in recent weeks but that Afghan security forces are consolidating their gains in urban areas.
"Momentum appears to be, strategic momentum appears to be sort of with the Taliban. The Afghan security forces are consolidating their forces. So part of this is they're giving up district centers in order to consolidate their forces because they're taking an approach to protect the population."
The militants now control about half Afghanistan's roughly 400 districts but none of the country's densely populated main cities.
The Taliban are surging across Afghanistan, snapping up territory, seizing border crossings and encircling cities with the withdrawal of U.S.-led foreign troops all but complete.
The United States and Germany have reached a deal that will allow the completion of a controversial Russian pipeline to Europe without the imposition of further U.S. sanctions. The two governments announced the agreement in a joint statement Wednesday and said it was immediately assailed by members of Congress opposed to the Nord Stream 2 gas pipeline.
The deal is intended to address U.S. and eastern and central European concerns about Russia using the pipeline as a political weapon. Both sides committed to imposing sanctions on Russia, including potentially shutting down the pipeline if Moscow does that.
On Wall Street, it was a positive day Wednesday, with the Dow Jones Industrial Average up eight tenths of one percent at the close. The S&P 500 also added eight tenths of one percent while the NASDAQ gained 0.9 percent.
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重点解析
1.Momentum appears to be, strategic momentum appears to be sort of with the Taliban.
momentum 势头
eg.I think the idea is gaining momentum.
我认为这个想法正在增强。
appear to 似乎，好像
eg.Asians appear to live longer as well.
亚洲人的寿命似乎也比西方人的长。
2.The Afghan security forces are consolidating their forces.
consolidate 巩固；联合
eg.The two banks will consolidate in July.
这两家银行将在7月合并。
参考翻译
这里是美国之音新闻。我是大卫·伯德，为您远程报道。
美国参谋长联席会议主席马克·米利将军星期三说，塔利班似乎有在阿富汗各地发动全面进攻的“战略势头”，但是他们的胜利还远不能保证。
米利在五角大楼发表讲话时说，塔利班武装分子最近几个星期取得了进展，而阿富汗安全部队正在巩固他们在城市地区取得的进展。
“战略上的势头似乎与塔利班有关。阿富汗安全部队正在整合他们的部队。他们将放弃地区中心以整合军队力量，因为他们打算采取措施保护人民。”
武装分子现在控制着阿富汗大约400个地区的一半左右，但没有一个是该国人口稠密的主要城市。
随着以美国为首的外国军队几乎全部撤离，塔利班正在阿富汗各地涌动，抢占领土，夺取边境口岸，包围城市。
美国和德国达成一项协议，允许在美国不施加进一步制裁的情况下，完成一条颇有争议的俄罗斯通往欧洲的管道。两国政府星期三在一份联合声明中宣布了这项协议，并提到，这项协议立即遭到了反对北溪2号天然气管道的国会议员的抨击。
该协议旨在解决美国以及东欧和中欧国家对俄罗斯将管道作为政治武器的担忧。双方都承诺对俄罗斯实施制裁，包括可能会关闭管道，如果莫斯科这么做了。
华尔街方面，周三势头不错，道琼斯工业平均指数收盘时上涨0.8%。标准普尔500指数也上涨0.8%，纳斯达克指数上涨0.9%。
美国之音新闻。
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