BBC news 2011-01-07 加文本

1.The internationally recognised winner of the presidential election in Ivory Coast, Alassane Ouattara, has called on the West African regional grouping Ecowas to send in special forces to remove his rival Laurent Gbagbo from power.

send in提交; 派遣

例句：He has sent in his report.
      他已呈交了报告。

      The coach sent two players in.
      教练派两名运动员上场。

2.As part of the plan, military manpower will be cut to 47,000 from 2015, with 200,000-strong Marine Corps losing 15,000 to 20,000 and the army accounting for the rest.

account for占有，占...百分比

例句：APEC members account for more than half of the world's economic output.
      亚太经合组织成员的经济总量在世界占一半以上。

3.The BBC Washington correspondent says his appointment will please financiers and big business, with whom Mr Obama needs to mend fences.

mend fences改善关系：改善不良关系，尤指在政治中

例句：They tried to mend their fences with us.
      他们努力想与我们修好。

4.Twenty-one people were killed in a New Year bomb attack at a Coptic church in Alexandria, and some of today's worshippers wore black rather than their usual festive clothes as a mark of respect.

rather than而不是

例句：They thus increased their annual grain production rather than diminished it.
      他们这样增加了而不是减少了粮食年产量。

5.Scientists in France and the United States say they've discovered an important clue as to why ammonites, the prehistoric marine creatures, died out with the dinosaurs, despite having survived previous mass extinctions.

die out(指物种、家族、习惯、观念等)绝迹, 消失

例句：He is the last of the family; after his death the name will die out.
      他是他家族活在这世上的最后一个成员, 他一死, 他们家族便不复存在了。

      That style of music died out ten years ago.
      那种风格的音乐10年前就消失了。