BBC news 2009-07-16 加文本

1.In recent months, she’d been gathering evidence of a campaign of house burnings by government-backed militias.

参考翻译：最近几个月，她一直在搜集政府支持的好战分子纵火案的证据。

语法学习：现在完成进行时

(1) 现在完成时强调动作的完成，而现在完成进行时强调动作的延续，因此，表示动作的完成，只能用现在完成时，而不能用现在完成进行时。如：He has changed his idea. 他改变了想法。

(2) 在表示动作的延续时，虽然既可用现在完成时，也可用现在完成进行时，但现在完成进行时强调动作的进行。因此在需要明确表示动作还要持续下去时，应用现在完成进行时。如：

We have been studying here for two years. 我们在这儿已经学习了两年了。

(3) 有些延续性动词(如 keep, learn, live, stay, study, work等)，用于现在完成时或现在完成进行时的区别不大。如：

I have lived here for many years.=I have been living here for many years. 我在这儿住了多年了。

2.But the Minister of Defense General Godwin Abbe said that the group, the Movement for the Emancipation of the Niger Delta or MEND, have no right to demand that the military withdraw from parts of the region.

参考翻译：但是尼日利亚国防部长戈德温·阿贝表示，尼日尔三角洲解放运动组织（MEND）无权要求政府军队从部分地区撤退。

结构分析：这句话的主语和谓语是Minister of Defense said，后面是宾语从句。to demand是动词不定式做后置定语，修饰right。that the military withdraw from parts of the region是demand的宾语从句。

3.Police are said to have shot a suspect to try to flee after his car had been pulled over a few blocks from the Capitol building which houses the US Congress.

参考翻译：据称，警察在国会山附近做例行交通检查时截停一名35岁男子，但该男子迅速跳入其车内开车逃逸，被警方击中。

结构分析：Police are said to是据说警察……的意思。可以换称这种形式：It's said that police have……