1. At a briefing Saturday, Pentagon officials said the US-led airstrikes successfully hit every target and they were not aware of any civilian casualties.
casualty 人員傷亡
Any history of bombing must also be a history of civilian casualty, for bombing saves the lives of soldiers only at the expense of other lives.
任何空襲的歷史也必定是平民傷亡的歷史,因為空襲救了士兵的性命只能以其他人的生命為代價 。
2.Vice President Mike Pence told U.S. Allies in Latin America the US-led airstrikes on Syria "degraded and crippled" the country's chemical weapons capability.
cripple 削弱
The factory was entirely crippled by the strike.
罷工使這個工廠完全癱瘓了 。