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1.It has been talking up the threat posed by the Egyptian Islamist movement, the Muslim Brotherhood.

talk up坦白说话

例句:If you do not talk down to a child, it will assuredly talk up to you.
      如果你对一个小孩子说话不摆架子, 他一定会对你坦白。

2.Several hundred people have gathered in the city centre for the protest and some scuffles broke out, but the heavy police presence meant the demonstration dispersed within hours.

break out(战争、打斗等不愉快事件)突然发生, 爆发

例句:Something unexpected always breaks out in this area.
      在这一地区总有意想不到的事情发生。

3.The Italian government has declared a special state of emergency to cope with the humanitarian needs of the migrants.

cope with对付…

例句:I cannot cope with that boy; he is stubborn.
      我对付不了那个孩子, 他很固执。

4.The chief Palestinian negotiator, Saeb Erekat, has handed in his resignation to the Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas.

hand in交上, 递交, 呈送

例句:please hand your homework in at once.
      请把你们的家庭作业立刻交上来。

      He handed in his resignation right after the cabinet meeting.
      内阁会议一开完, 他就提出了辞呈。

5.Mr Erekat had previously said he’d resign if it emerged that leaked documents that shed light on Israeli-Palestinian talks had come from his office.

shed light on为...提供线索, 对...透露情况, 使...清楚地显出, 阐明...

例句:Fluorescent bird droppings may help shed light on contested predictions in ecology.
      鸟类排遗上的萤光或许能解释生态学上的一些争议。

6.Cubans will still be able to buy a limited amount at a subsidised rate with their ration books, but these too are to be gradually phased out.

phase out逐步淘汰, 逐步结束

例句:The machine has been phased out.
      这种机器早已过时了。

      The factory has already phased out a batch of production equipment.
      这家工厂已经淘汰了一批生产设备。