Strangely , they had been more terrifying than any of the ieds I had encountered in iraq .
奇怪的是，他们比我在伊拉克遇到的简易炸弹更让人感到害怕。
Ieds littered the landscape , and the dense , ambush-friendly vegetation made them more difficult to spot .
简易爆炸装置散落的景观，而密，埋伏友好的植被使他们更难以被发现。
According to nato , improvised explosive devices ( ieds for short ) account for over half of all deaths among coalition soldiers .
根据北约发布的信息，临时制作的爆炸装置（简称ieds）在联盟士兵中造成了超过半数的死亡。
They criticise the taliban for " indiscriminately " killing civilians by detonating ieds in crowded markets or on busy roads .
他们批评塔利班在闹市或繁华道路引爆简易爆炸装置，“不分青红皂白”地杀害平民。
On the two joint patrols they conduct with americans , the afghan troops would rather take a dangerous shortcut than follow the americans clambering over eight-foot ( 2.4-metre ) walls to avoid possible ieds .
