BBC news 2010-11-15 加文本

give up放弃;投降，认输; 猜不出

例句：I can't answer that puzzle; I give up.
      我猜不出这个谜语, 我认输了。

      She will give up this journey.
      她将放弃这次旅行。

2.His comments put him at odds with the US commander General David Petraeus, as Quentin Sommerville reports from Kabul.

at odds with与…不和, 与…争吵

例句：She is at odds with her boss.
      她与上司不和。

3.But the president acknowledged that an abrupt withdrawal would be dangerous, although he said the United States should start drawing down troop numbers next year.

draw down减少

例句：They seem to draw down ridicule on us.
      他们似乎要使我们受到嘲笑。

      Draw down the window coverings, the sunlight is too bright.
      把窗帘拉下来，太阳光太强了。

4.But the biggest problem has been ensuring that the governance and all the development side can keep up within a time frame, and these things take generations sometimes within a time frame that is acceptable to domestic, public and political opinion.

keep up跟上, 赶上

例句：If you cannot keep up, I can walk more slowly.
      要是你跟不上, 我可以走得慢一点儿。

保持在高水准上

例句：In spite of the unfavorable weather, the grain output of the farm kept up and even increased a little than last year.
      尽管天气不好, 但粮食产量并未下降, 甚至比去年还略有增加。