BBC news 2011-04-22 加文本

短语讲解：

1. Rebel forces are reported to have taken control of a crossing on Libya's western frontier with Tunisia after a clash with forces loyal to Colonel Gaddafi.

take control of 控制，掌管
例句：Surely she would take control of the situation; after all she was a professional.
她肯定会控制这局面，她毕竟是个行家。

2. Colombo has rejected the findings and asked Ban Ki-moon not to make the report public, but the UN spokesman insisted it would be published in full and without amendment, and said Mr Ban would not wait indefinitely for a response from Sri Lanka.

make public 公开，公布，曝光
例句：Naturally, only a fraction of our huge investment was ever make public. 
自然，我们巨额的投资中只有一小部分是公之于众的。 

3. Human rights organisations have criticised a decision by the Pakistani Supreme Court to acquit five men charged with raping a woman on the orders of a village council.

charge with 控告，指控
例句：I charge this man with receiving stolen goods.
我指控此人接受赃物。

4. In 2002, the woman Mukhtar Mai was allegedly gang-raped as punishment for an offence her brother is supposed to have committed.

be supposed to 应该，被期望
例句：He was commonly supposed to be dead.
人们一般都认为他死了。

5. Officials say the den was operated by a criminal gang and that the bomb was set off by remote control.

criminal gang 犯罪团伙
set off 点燃，爆炸
例句：The children are setting fireworks off in the garden.
孩子们在花园里燃放烟火。

6. Earlier on Thursday, Nigeria's re-elected President Goodluck Jonathan insisted state elections would go ahead as planned across the country. Danny Aeberhard reports.

go ahead 继续进行
例句：After the rain stopped, the men went ahead with their work of digging up the street.
雨停后，他们继续在街上挖掘。

7. Dozens of people were killed, and tens of thousands of people have been displaced in the rioting, which first broke out on Monday when it became clear that Goodluck Jonathan, a Christian southerner, had defeated a Muslim candidate from the mostly Muslim north.

break out 爆发，突然发生
例句：He prophesied that war would break out.
他预言说战争将要爆发