BBC news 2011-06-13 加文本

短语讲解：

1. The Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan has won a third term in power and has promised to work with his rivals on a new constitution.

work with与…在一起干
例句：I find it so refreshing to work with young people in this department.
我发现和这一部门的青年一起工作令人精神振奋。

2. He told cheering supporters that he'd focus on consensus and negotiation.

focus on致力于, 集中于
例句：He focused his mind on his lessons.
他把心思集中在功课上。

3. That has played well with an electorate whose living standards still lag far behind those of most European countries.

lag behind落后于
例句：Britain's economic development must lag behind that of almost every other industrial nation.
英国的经济发展肯定落后于几乎所有的其他的工业国。

4. But he has not won the two-thirds super majority of parliamentary seats that would have allowed him to push through his plans for a new constitution without putting it to a referendum.

push through使(某人或某事)被通过，使(提案等)获得通过
例句：We shall need all the votes we can get to push the new law through.
我们需要我们所能得到的所有选票，才好使新的法律得以通过。

5. The Syrian army has taken control of the town of Jisr al-Shughour nearly a week after officials said 120 members of the security forces were killed there.

take control of控制
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。

6. The military says it entered the town at the request of citizens, but the refugees say that by the time the army reached Jisr al-Shughour, most of the residents had run away.

at the request of应…之请求; 鉴于…之请求
例句：An elderly woman rang up the police at the request of her neighbor.
一个老太太应邻居的请求给警察打了电话。
by the time到…时候为止
例句：He had left by the time we reached home.
当我们到家的时候他已经走了。
run away逃跑, 走掉, 逃脱; 离家
例句：The teenager ran away after being punished.
那个少年在受到惩罚后逃走了。

7. Leaders from north and south Sudan are in the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa to discuss the violence that's broken out in border areas less than a month before southern Sudan is due to become independent.

break out突然发生, 爆发

例句：The Second World War broke out in September 1939.
第二次世界大战爆发于1939年9月。
be due to 预订，预期
例句：He is due to speak tonight.
他预定今晚演说。

8. The meeting under the auspices of the African Union will focus on the disputed region of Abyei and the oil-rich northern state of South Kordofan. Human rights groups say tens of thousands of people have fled from recent fighting in South Kordofan.

under the auspices of在…的帮助或支持下; 有…赞助的
例句：The examination was held under the auspices of the government.
这次考试是由政府主办的。

9. The Libyan government says its forces have held off an attack by rebels on Zawiya, a key town in western Libya.

hold off抵抗; 抗拒
例句：For several days, we held off the attacks of a great number of enemy soldiers.
几天来我们击退了大批敌人的多次进攻。

10. The demonstrators said their aim was to show that the opposition movement was still alive, even though the government in Iran has put its leaders under house arrest.

under house arrest在软禁中
例句：He was put under house arrest.
他被软禁了起来。

11. Mobile courts are used to punish those found guilty of damaging public property or preventing police from carrying out their duties.

be used to do被用来做…
例句：Coal is used to make electricity.
煤被用来发电。
prevent from阻止, 防止
例句：His prompt action prevented the fire from spreading.
他的果断行动制止了火势的蔓延。
carry out执行; 贯彻
例句：If you make a promise, it should be carried out.
你许了诺言, 就一定要兑现。