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2010-01-22来源:和谐英语
1.President Obama has put forward sweeping new rules to curb the size and risk-taking of big banks.

put forward出,提出,推举出

例句:Over a hundred hypotheses had been put forward to explain the forest decline.
      有超过一百种假设被提出来,用来解释森林面积减少。

同义短语:

come up with提出,想出

例句:It is a novel idea he has just come up with, nevertheless, I can not agree to it.
      他提出了一个很新颖的观点,但我不能赞同。

2.The American Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has urged China to investigate cyber attacks that recently led the Internet company, Google, to threaten to pull out of the country.

pull out of退出

例句:I don't think they are going to pull out of the deal at the last minute.
       我认为他们不可能在最后一刻退出交易。

3.In a speech, Mrs Clinton said countries that restricted free access to information risked walling themselves off from the progress of the next century.

wall off杜绝,隔开

例句:The headmaster's house is walled off from the school.
      校长的房子与学校之间隔了一道墙。

      This part of the house is walled off.
      房子的这部分用墙隔开了。

4.A foreign policy objective of regime change -- I regard it as improper and also self-evidently unlawful.

regard as把...认作

例句:The monistic school would regard national law and international law as an integrated whole.
      一元学派把国内法和国际法视作一个统一的整体。

5.German police say they are still looking for a middle-aged man in a business suit a day after his laptop set off an explosives alarm, creating a security alert that caused chaos at Munich Airport.

set off出发, 动身

例句:He proposed to set off immediately.
      他建议立即动身。

(使)开始; 引起

例句:She had stopped crying but his shouting set her off again.
      她已经不哭了, 但是他的大声喊叫使她又哭了起来。

      If uncontrolled, the shortage would set off a new rise in meat prices.
      如果不加控制, 这种短缺会引起肉价再次上涨。

      That set all of them off laughing again.
      那又惹得他们哄堂大笑。

点燃, 爆炸

例句:Be careful that you don't set the fireworks off by mistake.
      当心点, 别弄错了引起那些爆竹爆炸。

      The children are setting fireworks off in the garden.
      孩子们在花园里燃放烟火。