BBC news 2009-11-10 加文本

1.    President Obama said the people of Berlin and Germany had delivered their own rebuke to tyranny and oppression and had struck out for their freedom.

strike out开辟(…的道路)；开业：

例句：They have stroke out a line of reform

他们开辟出一条改革的道路。

2. South Africa’s plans for football’s World Cup next year have been dealt a blow with the suggestion that the planned high-speed rail link between Johannesburg Airport and the city’s commercial centre may not be ready in time.

in time及时

例句：Can we get to the station in time?

我们能及时到达车站吗？

3.    Rescue workers in the Canadian Arctic say they’ve saved a teenage hunter who’d been adrift overnight on a small ice floe, having apparently fought off a polar bear.

fight off击败，击退；驱赶，驱除

例句：He fought off three men who attacked him.

他击退了三个向他袭击的人。