BBC news 2011-07-03 加文本

短语讲解：

1. Human rights activists say 24 people were shot dead during protests on Friday when hundreds of thousands are believed to have taken to the streets.

take to 开始从事
例句：He gave up medicine and took to literature.
他放弃医学, 开始从事文学。

2. At one demonstration, protesters opposed to the talks chanted for the Bahraini monarch to step down.

step down辞职，下台
例句：The manager had to step down on account of poor health.
那位经理由于身体不好, 只能辞职不干。

3. The main opposition Shia bloc joined in at the last moment after a protracted debate, but it's demanding changes in the way the prime minister is appointed and the release of all those detained in the government's crackdown on protest.

in the way造成不便或阻碍
例句：Although he thought he was helping us prepare dinner, he was only in the way.
虽然他认为他在帮我们准备饭, 但他只是碍手碍脚。

4. The African Union says its members will not cooperate with the International Criminal Court in carrying out the arrest warrant against the Libyan leader Colonel Gaddafi.

cooperate with与(某人)协作, 合作
例句：The children cooperated with their teachers in keeping the classroom neat.
孩子们和老师一起保持教室整洁。
carry out执行; 贯彻
He carried out the plan in very detail.
他一丝不苟地执行那项计划。

5. At the end of a summit in Equatorial Guinea, the African leaders said that the warrant seriously complicated their efforts to find a political solution.

at the end of在…结尾,在…末端
例句：The audience clapped at the end of the play .
剧终时观众鼓掌。

6. He rejected outright the tribunal's findings, criticising various members of the organisation's staff as being biased, corrupt and linked to the CIA. He complained that no serious attempt had been made to investigate whether Israel was behind the assassination.

link to与…连接; 联系
例句：Fingerprints linked the suspect to the crime.
指纹使嫌疑犯与犯罪联系起来。

7. The former Brazilian President Itamar Franco has died in hospital in Sao Paulo from complications from leukaemia. He was 81. Mr Franco, who'd been vice president, took over the presidential role in October 1992 when the then President Fernando Collor de Mello was facing impeachment proceedings.

take over接管; 接替
例句：She took over his work after his departure.
他离开以后, 她接替了他的工作。

8. The Greek authorities have arrested the captain of a boat that was due to carry activists to the Gaza Strip.

be due to 预计，预订
例句：We are due to leave tomorrow.
我们定于明天动身。

9. The boat, called the Audacity of Hope, is part of a flotilla planning to take humanitarian aid to Gaza in order to challenge the Israeli blockade of the Palestinian territory.

in order to为了…
例句：He was going for a scholarship in order to go abroad. 
为了出国，他准备争取奖学金。 

10. When Petra Kvitova sent down the winning ace to claim the Wimbledon ladies' singles crown, she claimed numerous firsts.

send down击落
例句：Two enemy planes sent down.
两架敌机被击落。