BBC news 2011-05-21 加文本

短语讲解：
1. Mr Netanyahu said everyone wanted a peace that would endure, that a peace based on illusions would crash on the rocks of reality in the Middle East.

base on使建立在…基础上,立足
例句：One should always base one's opinion on facts.
我们应总是把自己的观点建立在事实的基础上。

2. But unlike his host, he proceeded to lay them all out, saying that Israel could not go back to the lines that existed before the 1967 Arab-Israeli war and that Israel would have to have a long-term military presence in the Jordan Valley.

lay out击倒, 打倒; 花钱, 花力气
例句：With one blow he laid his attacker out.
他一拳将攻击者打倒。
military presence驻军

3. Foreign journalists are barred from Syria, so the reports cannot be independently confirmed.

bar from禁止(接近〔做〕…)
例句：The members voted to bar women from the club.
会员表决不让妇女加入该俱乐部。

4. The surprise today is that the security forces are resorting to several tactics to disperse the protests.

resort to诉诸于,采取
例句：We shall have to resort to arbitration.
我们将不得不诉诸仲裁。

5. These include firing shots at protesters and driving their vehicles in the middle of the protests.

in the middle of在...当中
例句：She came in the middle of the day.
她在中午的时候来了。

6. It said that the area was full of smugglers and there had been fighting between them and the security forces.

be full of充满
例句：Vegetables are full of vitamin.
蔬菜里含有丰富的维生素。

7. Mr Strauss-Kahn is accused of a serious sex assault on a hotel maid, the charge he denies.

accuse of指责, 控告
例句：We accused him of taking bribes.
我们控告他受贿。

8. Dominique Strauss-Kahn was going to be detained in a smart apartment block on the Upper East side of Manhattan, but some neighbours apparently objected to the disruption this would cause.

object to反对; 对…反感
例句：They objected to me on personal grounds.
他们出于个人的原因反对我。

9. It's only suitable for a few days, and then Mr Strauss-Kahn must go somewhere else.

be suitable for适合
例句：This book is suitable for teenagers.
这本书适合青少年。

10. As such, they have no ages, instead, taking up different names as they reach new stages of life, passing on their names to younger members.

as such本身；就其本身而论
例句：It's not an agreement as such, but it will have virtually the same effect as one.
它算不上是协定, 但实际上起协定的作用。
take up占去
例句：This thing takes up all my attention.
这件事占用我所有的注意力。

11. As the younger generation learn Portuguese alongside their native tongue, they have no trouble picking up more familiar notions of time.

have no trouble 没困难
例句：As a rule we have no trouble. 
一般来讲，我们还没有遇到什么麻烦。
pick up通过实践学会
例句：She soon picked up French when she went to live in France.
她到法国居住后很快就学会了法语。