? ? ?Taher ALI AL-AUQALI, the chief of staff of Yemen's army,?has a spring in his step. After a year of stalemate, his five fronts are moving again. As he darts between battlefields hundreds of kilometres apart, he speaks of victories in Beihan, which have reconnected the road from his headquarters in Marib to sounthern Yemen, and in the Jawf region . Troops have also advanced 60km? north along the coast from Mokha towards Hodeida, the main port of the rebels, called the Houthis. From bases in the desert and coastal lowlands, the alliance of forces arrayed against the rebels is edging its way into the mountains that shelter Yemen's capital, Sana'a, which is still in Houthi hands.?
? ? ?短語：
1、has? a spring in his step:?
A spring in one’s step 的字面意思是“腳步里裝了彈簧”篮赢，但實(shí)際表達(dá)的意思是“因?yàn)樾那楹枚钊四_步更加自信颈渊，更有朝氣”痹愚。再次充滿活力；
例如：
There’s definitely been a spring in her step since she met Michael.
自從她遇到邁克之后始苇，走起路來腳步都變得輕快了营搅。
I am sure you’ll be walking with a spring in your step when I tell you the news.
我相信我告訴你這個消息后，你肯定走路的步伐都會變得輕快辫诅。
Sam has been walking around with a spring in his step ever since the manager announced his promotion.
自從經(jīng)理宣布山姆升職的消息后，山姆精神抖擻涧狮，走路步伐格外輕快炕矮。
2、darts:?
vt. 投擲者冤，投射肤视；使迅速突然移動
vi. 向前沖，飛奔
n. 飛鏢涉枫，標(biāo)槍邢滑；急馳，飛奔愿汰；（蟲的）螯困后；飛快的移動
n. (Dart)人名乐纸；(英、芬)達(dá)特摇予；(法)達(dá)爾
在此處（As he?darts?between?battlefields?hundreds of kilometres apart） 表示：他在相隔數(shù)百公里的戰(zhàn)場間穿梭汽绢。
3、coast
n.海岸侧戴；海濱
[例句]
Campsites are usually situated along the?coast, close to beaches.
野營地一般都位于海濱宁昭，靠近沙灘。
? ? ? ? A string of events has led to the advance. In December the Houthis killed their erstwhile ally, Ali Abdullah Saleh, who had been Yemen's president from 1978 to 2012, so the Houthis now fight allone. Arrests, killing and houses demolished by tank shells in the capital have stocked resentment against the rebels. Thousands of Mr Saleh's people have died.
1酗宋、demolish:?V 拆除积仗；破壞；毀壞蜕猫；推翻斥扛；駁倒
2、demolished :v. 拆毀丹锹；破壞（demolish的過去分詞）；駁倒
? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?adj. 被拆毀的
例句：Most of?the abandoned?buildings?have been?demolished?by?humans?or?nature.
? ? ? ? ? ? 大部分被遺棄的建筑物已被人為破壞和自然侵蝕了芬失。
3楣黍、resentment : n 忿恨、怨恨? ? ? （同義詞：n. 憤恨棱烂，怨恨? ?spite?,?hatred）
例句：She expressed resentment at being interviewed by a social worker.
? ? ? ? ? ? 她對于被一個社會工作者面試表示了怨恨租漂。
句子：Arrests, killing and houses demolished by tank shells in the capital have stocked resentment against the rebels
首都的逮捕、殺戮和被坦克炮彈摧毀的房屋激起了人們對叛軍的怨恨
? ? ? ?Tales of rebel atrocities have spurred on the governement's forces.? ?Fleeing Yemeni journalists say the Houthis killed over 30 colleagues,? including some who worked for Mr Saleh's media outlets. They say the rebels extorted money from relatives wanting to recover tortured bodies to champion the?mathlumeen, or oppressors.?
? ? ? ? As? the rebes' following shrinks, the army's may be growing.? The conflict has often been depicted as a sectarian? one between the Iranian-backed Houthis,? who follow the Zaydi branch of Shiism in the highlands, and Sunnis in the lowlands backed by their co-religionists in? the Gulf. But the flight of hundreds of thousands of displaced Yemenis is changing the sectarian make-up in the army's ranks. General Auqaili is a Zaydi from Houthis-held Amran. The new security chief in Marib comes from Amran, too. Moreover, he is a sayyid, one of the scions of the Prophet Muhammad, a group that Houthis think should rule the roost.
