BBC news 2010-09-10 加文本

serve to起…作用

例句：Emergencies often serve to hurl people together.
      紧急情况往往能使人们团结起来。

2.Their families say they'd been hiking and strayed across the border by mistake.

stray across误入歧途

3.The German Central Bank has announced that one of its board members at the centre of a row over comments he made about immigration and Jews is to stand down at the end of the month.

stand down离开法庭的证人席,暂时辞退,顺潮航行

例句：The president has stand down after five year in office.
      总统执政五年后已经引退。

4.It urges policymakers to be careful not to choke off economic recovery by cutting back on spending too much and too soon, and it says governments should think about reintroducing stimulus measures if the slowdown persists.

choke off中止做; 使放弃做

例句：They'd ruthlessly choked off all opposition to their plans.
      他们无情地把反对他们的方案都压制下去了。

      It was a thankless job, so we choked him off before long.
      那是一件吃力不讨好的事情, 所以我们很快就不让他做了。