The attack on this so-called soft targets raises the question about mall security on U.S. soil.

对于这种容易打击目标的袭击提出了关于美国境内购物中心安全的质疑。

Sometimes the militants attack military installations and government offices, but they've also gone for soft targets such as churches, schools and hospitals.

有时，武装分子会袭击军事设施和政府建筑，但也会袭击软目标，包括教堂、学校和医院等。

However, the protection of " soft targets" like the Confucius Institute at the University of Karachi is far less than that of other projects.

然而，像卡拉奇大学孔子学院这样的“软目标”的保护远不如其他项目。

Hayden said, " If you look at what has happened...the soft targets, the transportation targets, the maximum civilian casualties, (it's) something we could see."

海登表示，“你看看此次袭击的动机，手无寸铁的目标、人流集中的交通枢纽、最大化的平民伤亡，我们能看到的就是这些。”

That, as Nick Reynolds, an analyst at rusi, a British defence think-tank, observes, means they can be used in particular against artillery batteries, whether of guns or rocket launchers-which are " softer" targets than tanks.

正如英国国防智库RUSI的分析师尼克·雷诺兹所观察到的那样，这意味着它们可以专门用来对付炮兵，无论是火炮还是火箭发射器--它们都是比坦克“更容易攻击”的目标。

Molfar, however, uses the model to map areas where Russian forces are likely to be low on morale and supplies, which could make them a softer target.

然而， 莫尔法尔利用该模型绘制了俄罗斯军队士气和补给可能较低地区的地图，这可能使他们成为更易被攻击的目标。

Churches and monasteries were not well protected because Christians did not think  of attacking their own religious houses, and the Vikings would have seen them as soft targets.

教堂和修道院没有得到很好的保护，因为基督徒没有想到攻击他们自己的宗教场所，维京人会把它们视为软目标。