BBC news 2010-08-10 加文本

1.In a statement, Honda said that if the switch was warm, the driver could pull out the key after driving without the gear lever in park mode; if the parking brake was off, the car could roll.

pull out拔出

例句：The drawer won't pull out.
      这抽屉拉不出来。

      Vargas pulled out his gun.
      瓦格斯掏出他的枪。

2. The man in charge of all this spending, the Secretary of Defence Robert Gates, has announced that he's found plenty of excess costs that can be trimmed.

plenty of很多, 大量的

例句：There is plenty of coal in this area.
      这个地区有丰富的煤。

in charge of主管，负责

例句：The teacher is in charge of the class.
      这位教师负责这个班。

I'll be in charge of the whole factory next week when the director is away.
下周厂长不在时, 我将负责整个工厂。

3.Then last week, a thick blanket of smog descended on the city as fires, not far to the south and the east, burnt out of control.

descend on突然袭击;突然访问

例句：Bob and his girl friend descended on us for the weekend.
      鲍勃和他女友突然来我家过周末。

4.As the amount of oxygen in the air has gone down, the concentration of carbon oxide and other dangerous gases has shot up.

shoot up迅速成长

例句：That boy has shot up since we last saw him.
      自上次见面后, 那男孩长得很快。

      The plants are just shooting up.
      作物迅速生长。

5.The three candidates who stood against him are all allies of his Tutsi-dominated Rwandan Patriotic Front.

stand against反对…

例句：We stand against all forms of cruelty, especially to children.
      我们反对任何形式的虐待, 尤其是虐待儿童。