First story this Thursday, it`s about one of the largest U.S. military deployments in Europe since the Cold War. It`s not just several thousand U.S. troops who recently arrived in Germany. It`s tanks, armored trucks, artillery, twenty-four hundred pieces of military equipment. And it will be spread out across Eastern Europe.

今天的头条新闻是关于自冷战以来，美国在欧洲最大的一次军事部署。不只是数千美国士兵最近抵达德国。这是坦克、装甲卡车、火炮、数千个军事设备。它将分散在东欧。

This is part of an American effort to show it`s committed to NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. That wasz formed in 1949 by European countries and the U.S., as a sort of guard against the Soviet Union.

这是美国表示自己致力于北约。北大西洋公约组织成立于1949年，由欧洲国家和美国组成，目的是防范苏联。

Today, NATO members are concerned about Russia. The country has supported the pro-Russian forces who are fighting Ukrainian government troops in eastern Ukraine, and Russia controversially took over Crimea, a region of Ukraine, in early 2014.

现在，北大西洋公约组织对俄罗斯表示担忧。俄罗斯支持对抗乌克兰政府的亲俄罗斯武装部队，结果在2014年初，俄罗斯占领了乌克兰的克里米亚半岛，引发争议。

At that time, the vast majority of people in Crimea voted to make their region part of Russia, instead of Ukraine. But Russia`s takeover was something that Ukraine and several other countries, including the U.S., did not accept, and it troubled leaders throughout NATO, including those in Latvia.

当时，大部分克里米亚半岛人民投票希望克里米亚成为俄罗斯的一部分。但是，对于俄罗斯占领克里米亚的行为，乌克兰以及包括美国在内的其他国家都不同意。同时这一行为也引发了北约组织领导人的担忧，其中就包括拉脱维亚。

That`s where some U.S. troops are currently engaged in training exercises.

美军现在在拉脱维亚从事军事演习。

First story this Thursday, it`s about one of the largest U.S. military deployments in Europe since the Cold War. It`s not just several thousand U.S. troops who recently arrived in Germany. It`s tanks, armored trucks, artillery, twenty-four hundred pieces of military equipment. And it will be spread out across Eastern Europe.

This is part of an American effort to show it`s committed to NATO, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. That was formed in 1949 by European countries and the U.S., as a sort of guard against the Soviet Union.

Today, NATO members are concerned about Russia. The country has supported the pro-Russian forces who are fighting Ukrainian government troops in eastern Ukraine, and Russia controversially took over Crimea, a region of Ukraine, in early 2014.

At that time, the vast majority of people in Crimea voted to make their region part of Russia, instead of Ukraine. But Russia`s takeover was something that Ukraine and several other countries, including the U.S., did not accept, and it troubled leaders throughout NATO, including those in Latvia.

That`s where some U.S. troops are currently engaged in training exercises.