BBC news 2011-04-06 加文本

短语讲解：

1. After all these deaths, if Mr Gbagbo does not leave power, we'll carry on.

carry on 继续进行
例句：We must try to carry on as if nothing had happened.
我们必须继续下去, 只当作什么都没有发生过。

2. If he steps down today, we'll stop and make the country secure.

step down 辞职，下台
例句：After the scandal over misappropriated funds the chief accountant was asked to step down .
由于滥用专款的丑闻，总会计师被迫辞职。

3. Although the war does appear to be ending, the battle for Abidjan wrapping up now, there is still a mood of great uncertainty.

appear to 似乎，好像
例句：He did not appear to resent it. 
他好像对此并不生气。
wrap up结束
例句：Let 's wrap up the discussion .
让我们结束这次讨论吧。
穿暖和的衣服
例句：Be sure to wrap up well, there are a lot of colds about.
你该多穿些衣服，现在感冒正流行。
包裹，包装
例句：Would you please wrap up the sweater for me ?
请你把毛衣给我包一下好吗？

4. But the concern is, of course, of all the different armed groups in the fear of reprisals, perhaps even massacres.

in the fear of 害怕… 担心…
例句：I even hesitated to tell you about my discovery in the fear of exciting your regrets. 
我早知道也不告诉你了，省得叫你平自地添一番心事。 

5. A Libyan rebel leader, Abdul Fattah Younis, has accused Nato of standing idly by while forces loyal to Colonel Gaddafi continuing killing people in the besieged western city of Misrata. General Younis said that without Nato action, Misrata residents faced extermination within a week. Earlier, an oil tanker arrived at the eastern Libyan port of Tobruk to pick up the first consignment of oil to be exported from the rebel-held region.

stand by 袖手旁观
例句：You cannot stand by and allow such a thing.
你不能袖手旁观, 听任发生这样的事。
pick up 拾起，捡起
例句：I picked up your book by mistake.
我拿错了你的书。
安排接取， 使搭乘，搭救
例句：The ship calls at each port on this coast to pick up passengers and mail.
那艘轮船在沿海每个港口停下, 搭载乘客和接取邮件。

6. They are now a body in control of a large part of the country with its own source of revenue.

in control of 控制，掌管，掌握
例句：Enemy forces are in control of the city. 
敌军控制着这座城市。

7. Ratko Mladic's wife Bosiljka is on trial herself for illegal possession of weapons.

on trial 受审
例句：He is on trial for murder.
他因谋杀而受审。

8. His wife, however, says he would have been in touch with the family if he were still alive and that he's probably succumbed to a fragile heart.

in touch with 同…有联系
例句：I asked her to get in touch with Henry as soon as possible. 
我要求她尽快与亨利联系。

9. The European Commission has asked European Union countries to submit plans by the end of the year to improve living conditions for Roma people.

by the end of 到…为止
例句：He had finished his great works by the end of 1980.
到1980年底, 他已完成了他的巨著。