BBC news 2011-06-10 加文本

短语讲解：

1. The United Nations human rights commissioner Navi Pillay has accused Syria of waging war on its own people.

accuse of指责, 控告
例句：She accused the official of corruption.
她指控这位官员腐败。

2. And what we're seeing now in Syria is so atrocious, I felt that I had to strongly condemn the excesses that are being taken there in terms of the regime's oppression of ordinary aspirations of their own people.

in terms of就…而言, 从…方面说来
例句：He thought of everything in terms of money.
他是从钱的角度来看每一件事。

3. The United Nations nuclear watchdog has decided to refer Syria to the Security Council over its alleged covert nuclear programme.

refer to提交…作处理〔决定〕
例句：He referred the case to the High Court.
他把案子提交给高级法庭处理。

4. He is unarmed and pleads for his life as he's surrounded by a group of paramilitaries, who are armed and in uniform.

plead for恳求…, 乞求…
例句：They pleaded for help.
他们恳求帮助。

5. The young man is then shown writhing on the ground, bleeding heavily and begging for help.

beg for恳求, 乞求
例句：The woman begged her neighbor for help.
那名妇女请求邻居帮忙。

6. The UN says there are reports they've been taken away in 10 military trucks to unknown destinations.

take away把…带走; 使离开
例句：They took the injured away in an ambulance.
他们用救护车把受伤的人运走。

7. It wants to know where they are and calls on China to end the practice of making people disappear.

call on要求, 请求
例句：He called on his friends to help him.
他向朋友求助。

8. China says there's no question of forced disappearances, but a foreign ministry spokesman admitted that something has happened to the monks.

no question of无…的可能性
例句：There is no question of escape
没有逃走的可能。
happen to发生在…身上
例句：An odd thing happened to him this morning.
他今天早晨遇到一件怪事。

9. The government of Malawi has stopped paying a special allowance to civil servants with HIV because it says they are spending the money on beer and prostitutes.

spend on把…花在…
例句：He doesn't spend much time on his homework.
他花在作业上的时间不多。

10. The biggest Opec producer Saudi Arabia tried to convince the group to increase production, but when it failed to do so, prices started to rise.

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