BBC news 2011-05-30 加文本

短语讲解：

1. A dramatic day which ended with Sepp Blatter almost certain to be re-elected as president of football's world governing body - he's survived a hearing of the ethics commission, but two of the organisation's most senior members have been provisionally suspended.

end with以…结束
例句：You always believe somehow that the world will end with your death. 
似乎人们总以为自己两眼一闭，这世界就不存在了。 

2. Mohamed Bin Hammam, who had earlier pulled out of the presidential race, is the head of the Asian confederation.

pull out退出
例句：The invading troops are pulling out of the occupied area under international supervision.
入侵部队正在国际监督下撤出占领区。

3. General Mladic is expected to be transferred to the international tribunal in The Hague this week to be tried for genocide over the massacre of nearly 8,000 Muslim men and boys at Srebrenica in Bosnia in 1995.

be tried for因…被审判
例句：Tom is being tried for robbery with violence.
汤姆因暴力抢劫罪而受审。

4. The protest officially organised by the far-right Serbian Radical Party has officially finished, but the protesters have actually moved away to another part of the city, and they are setting off flares.

move away离开
例句：Losing interest, the crowd moved slowly away.
群众失去了兴趣, 逐渐散开了。
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。

5. It was in the town hall there two former colleagues alleged that he gave them foot massages to brush up on his reflexology, an alternative therapy.

brush up on复习
例句：If you're going to the United States, you'd better brush up on your English.
如果你要去美国, 你最好先复习一下你的英文。

6. Nonsense, he says, but he appears to have lost the confidence of President Sarkozy and the Prime Minister Francois Fillon.

lose confidence失去信心
例句：There is no reason to lose confidence in yourself.
没有理由对自己失去信心。

7. Emergency services and volunteers are still searching for survivors.

search for搜索, 搜寻
例句：We searched in vain for the missing child.
我们到处寻找那孩子, 但没有找到。

8. Mr Karzai said his government had repeatedly asked the United States not to carry out air raids that risk killing Afghan civilians.

carry out实行，执行；实现，完成
例句：He carried out the plan in very detail.
他一丝不苟地执行那项计划。
air raid空袭

9. Riot police are reported to have sealed off the central square in the provincial capital of Inner Mongolia, Huhehaote, following a week of regional unrest and attempts to organise further protests via social networking services.

seal off把…封锁起来
例句：We need to seal off this area until the police can make a full investigation. 
我们得封锁这一带，直到警察进行了充分的调查为止。 

10. South Tyneside Council says it went to court in California in an attempt to discover the identity of a blogger behind allegedly libellous statements.

in an attempt to力图,试图
例句：He studied hard in an attempt to pass the exam
他努力学习试图通过考试