BBC news 2011-05-10 加文本

短语讲解：

1. Pakistan's Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani has rejected accusations that Pakistan was either complicit in helping to hide Osama Bin Laden or guilty of incompetence in failing to find him.

fail to未能…
例句：I fail to understand your motives.
我未能理解你的意图。

2. He mentioned the many thousands of civilian and military deaths here and said his country looked to no one for recognition.

look to依靠〔指望〕(某人或某事)
例句：She has always looked to her parents for advice.
她总是指望她的父母替她出主意。

3. The United Nations refugee agency says a ship carrying up to 600 migrants broke up and sank off the Libyan coast late last week and that many of those on board died.

break up (使)破碎, 分解
例句：The specs fell on the cement floor and broke up.
眼镜掉在水泥地上破掉了。
on board在船〔火车, 飞机, 汽车〕上
例句：When all the people were on board, the boat bore away.
当所有人都上船后, 那艘船离岸了。

4. It says the ship broke apart not far from the shore.

break apart使…分裂开、分离
例句：Scientists have developed ways to break apart the genetic material. 
科学家已研究出分离遗传物质的方法。

5. The UN says as many as 600 people could have been on board, with other witnesses speaking of seeing bodies in the water.

speak of谈到, 讲到
例句：They spoke of the old days on the campus.
他们谈起昔日的校园生活。

6. The Italian coastguard, which carries out numerous patrols of the Mediterranean, says it has no knowledge of the accident.

have no knowledge of不知道，不了解
例句：I have no knowledge of mathematics.
我对数学一窍不通。

7. A senior Chinese official said China had made progress in many areas. Kim Ghattas reports from Washington.

make progress前进, 进步
例句：Humanity have make great progress in space exploration and medicine.
人类在太空研究和医学上取得了很大进展。

8. Joe Biden and Hillary Clinton were unusually blunt in their criticism of China's human rights record, and they did it in the presence of top Chinese officials.

in the presence of在…面前
例句：She showed constraint in the presence of the strangers.
她在陌生人面前显得很拘束。

9. The BBC Havana correspondent says the planned travel reform took most observers by surprise. Under the current system, Cubans need to file an exit request that can be turned down.

turn down拒绝
例句：His request for a rise was turned down.
他要求加薪, 被拒绝了。

10. A navy unit patrolling a river came across an encampment belonging to members of the Zetas drugs cartel.

belong to是(某团体、国家等)的成员
例句：Britain belongs to the EEC.
英国是欧洲经济共同体的一个成员国。

11. Weylandt fell from his bike at high speed during a speed descent about 20km from Rapallo, where the tour's third stage ended.

at high speed高速地
例句：The car was running at high speed.
汽车急速地向前行驶。