BBC news 2011-06-14 加文本

短语讲解：

1. The money pledged at a conference in London comes from governments and private donors, among them the computer billionaire Bill Gates.

come from来自某处
例句：They came from all parts of the country.
他们来自全国各地。

2. There are so many ways to look at the impact: children to get the vaccines, the children who won't be sick and will develop their full potential.

look at评判; 审视
例句：The difficulty can now be looked at in a different light.
现在可以用不同的角度来看这个困难。

3. Some aid organisations say much of the money will go to big Western drug companies, who charge more for their vaccines than producers in developing countries, but one of the companies told the BBC it wasn't making a profit.

charge for要价, 收费
例句：Plumbers charge by the hour for their work.
水管工人的工作是以小时收费的。

4. Reports now say almost 7,000 people have crossed over into Turkey, with more arriving all the time.

cross over横〔越〕过(河等); 穿过(道路、屋子等)
例句：Cross over at the traffic lights, where the road is safe.
在交通指挥灯处过马路, 那儿安全。
all the time一直
例句：I have been busy all the time.
我一直很忙。

5. Activists said local men of military age were being rounded up, houses damaged and crops destroyed.

round up使聚拢; 围捕
例句：This is a plan to round up the enemy spies.
这是个围歼敌特的计划。

6. The US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has urged African leaders to promote democratic reforms, otherwise, she warned, they could face the kind of popular revolts taking place in the Arab world.

take place发生; 举行
例句：The threatening strike did not take place after all.
可能来临的罢工终究没有发生。

7. Meanwhile, Mrs Clinton has cut short her Africa trip because of a volcano that's erupted in Eritrea and is threatening to disrupt air travel.

cut short突然停止
例句：The meeting was cut short when the chairman fell ill.
主席一生病, 会议就中断了。

8. Residents woke to find their homes covered with a film of grey black ash, 1mm to 2mm thick.

cover with用…遮盖住, 用…填满
例句：The field is covered with snow.
田野一片积雪。

9. Human rights organisations are warning of a humanitarian catastrophe in border areas between north and south Sudan in the run-up to independence for the south next month.

warn of发出关于…的警告
例句：The weather station warned of severe snowfalls ahead.
气象台预报将有大雪。

10. The man who leaked the documents, Daniel Ellsberg, says he already picked out the best bits.

pick out挑选, 选择; 选拔
例句：We must pick out the enemy's weakest units for attack.
我们必须找敌人最薄弱的部队攻击。