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.
短语：
1、has a spring in his step:
A spring in one’s step 的字面意思是“脚步里装了弹簧”，但实际表达的意思是“因为心情好而令人脚步更加自信，更有朝气”。再次充满活力；
例如：
There’s definitely been a spring in her step since she met Michael.
自从她遇到迈克之后，走起路来脚步都变得轻快了。
I am sure you’ll be walking with a spring in your step when I tell you the news.
我相信我告诉你这个消息后，你肯定走路的步伐都会变得轻快。
Sam has been walking around with a spring in his step ever since the manager announced his promotion.
自从经理宣布山姆升职的消息后，山姆精神抖擞，走路步伐格外轻快。
2、darts:
vt. 投掷，投射；使迅速突然移动
vi. 向前冲，飞奔
n. 飞镖，标枪；急驰，飞奔；（虫的）螯；飞快的移动
n. (Dart)人名；(英、芬)达特；(法)达尔
在此处（As he darts between battlefields hundreds of kilometres apart） 表示：他在相隔数百公里的战场间穿梭。
3、coast
n.海岸；海滨
[例句]
Campsites are usually situated along the coast, close to beaches.
野营地一般都位于海滨，靠近沙滩。
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、demolish: V 拆除；破坏；毁坏；推翻；驳倒
2、demolished :v. 拆毁；破坏（demolish的过去分词）；驳倒
adj. 被拆毁的
例句：Most of the abandoned buildings have been demolished by humans or nature.
大部分被遗弃的建筑物已被人为破坏和自然侵蚀了。
3、resentment : n 忿恨、怨恨 （同义词：n. 愤恨，怨恨 spite , hatred）
例句：She expressed resentment at being interviewed by a social worker.
她对于被一个社会工作者面试表示了怨恨。
句子：Arrests, killing and houses demolished by tank shells in the capital have stocked resentment against the rebels
首都的逮捕、杀戮和被坦克炮弹摧毁的房屋激起了人们对叛军的怨恨
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.
