BBC news 2011-07-06 加文本

短语讲解：

1. One of its papers, the News of the World, is said to have paid for the hacking of the mobile phone of a murdered girl, Milly Dowler, while she was missing, an allegation that the paper's then editor Rebekah Brooks said she was appalled by.

pay for因…受罚〔痛苦〕; 为…付出代价
例句：They made him pay for his offence by giving him the sack.
他们解雇了他, 从而使他因自己的过错而受到了惩罚。

2. The latest claims suggest a private investigator acting for the News of the World hacked into the voicemails of the murdered schoolgirl while she was missing.

act for代表(某人), 代替(某人)执行某公务
例句：As the chairman is ill, I'm asking Mr. Sharp to act for him.
由于主席患病, 我请夏普先生代理主席一职。

3. An appeals court in the Netherlands has found the Dutch state responsible for the deaths of three Muslim men in Srebrenica in 1995 during the Bosnian conflict.

responsible for为…负责;是造成…的原因
例句：We are responsible for any damage.
损坏了，我们负责。

4. The court ruled the Dutch UN troops should not have handed the three men over to the Bosnian Serb forces who killed them.

hand over让与, 移交;送交
例句：They were handed over to a military tribunal for trial.
他们已被交给军事法庭审判。

5. It is 16 years ago next week that the Srebrenica massacre took place.

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

6. Now a Dutch court has taken issue with that argument and raised the prospect of multiple compensation cases.

take issue with提出异议
例句：Two of the members chose to take issue with the chairman on the question of voting rights.
两位委员决定和主席争论选举权的问题。

7. Pakistan's Human Rights Commission has criticised the authorities in the southern city of Karachi for failing to stop multiple targeted killings.

fail to未能…
例句：He failed to pass the examination through carelessness.
由于粗心, 他考试没及格。

8. She said that armed gangs who carry out planned killings with impunity operate with the backing of the city's main political parties.

carry out实行，执行；实现，完成
例句：They also carry out experiments.
他们还进行实验。

9. Mrs Lagarde takes over at a time of formidable challenges with the IMF needing to make sure that the Greek debt crisis doesn't spread to other vulnerable economies.

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。

10. Libyan rebels say they've succeeded in creating a defensive arc south and west of the city of Misrata by linking up two fronts.

link up (使)连接; (使)结合; (使)合并
例句：Engineers can link up distant countries by radio or telephone.
工程师们用无线电或电话可把相距遥远的国家联系在一起。

11. Atlantis is due to blast off on Friday from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, bound for the International Space Station.

be due to 预计，预订
例句：My passport is due to expire.
我的护照要到期了。
blast off离地升空; 发射
例句：The country blasted off another man-made satellite.
这个国家又发射了一颗人造卫星。

12 Its 12-day mission, the 135th, will bring to an end 30 years of shuttle flights.

bring to an end使结束
例句：Neutral states in the area have tried to bring an end to the war. 
该地区的中立国为结束战争作出了努力。

13. President Hugo Chavez, who returned on Monday from an extended absence in Cuba following emergency cancer surgery, made a live televised address from the presidential palace ahead of the parade, but he was not there to witness it in person.

in person亲自, 亲身
例句：You should come here in person tomorrow.
明天你必须亲自来。

14. He'd been suffering from cancer for a number of years. Twombly was best known for his canvases that combined painting, drawing and calligraphic texts, many of them reflecting classical themes and motifs.

suffer from患(某种病); 受(某种病痛)折磨; 因(疾病)而痛或不舒服
例句：You must have suffered from a cold.
你一定是感冒了。
be known for因…而众所周知
例句：The islanders are known for their hospitality.
岛上的居民以好客闻名。