BBC news 2011-07-24 加文本

短语讲解：

1. Norway is coming to terms with the worst spate of killings it's suffered since the Second World War.

come to terms with忍受, 对待
例句：He can come to terms with being poor.
他能够忍受贫穷。

2. And the survivors who've now been brought off the island have been describing what happened when the gunman disguised as a police officer opened fire on the crowds of teenagers attending a summer camp organised by the governing Labour Party.

bring off使脱离险境
例句：The lifeboat brought off most of the shipwrecked sailors.
救生艇载走了遇难船上的大部分水手。

3. I haven't seen them, and I haven't heard from them.

hear from从…听到
例句：I afterwards heard from him that this was not the case.
此后我从他那里得知情况并非如此。

4. The man arrested, Anders Behring Breivik, described himself as a Christian and a conservative.

describe as描述为
例句：His employer had described him as lacking in initiative and drive.
雇主说他缺乏进取心和干劲。

5. Mr Bin Hammam, who's from Qatar, had been accused of trying to buy votes in the Fifa presidential election, where he was challenging its leader Sepp Blatter.

accuse of指责, 控告
例句：We accused him of taking bribes.
我们控告他受贿。

6. Petrus Damaseb, a Namibian judge and chairman of the ethics committee that investigated the bribery claims, announced Mr Bin Hammam had been found guilty of all charges and said the life ban from involvement in the game was in keeping with Fifa's zero tolerance policy.

be guilty of有…之罪
例句：The man was found guilty of armed robbery, and condemned to eight years' imprisonment.
那人犯有持械抢劫罪, 因而被判八年监禁。
zero tolerance policy零容忍政策

7. Lawyers for the Qatari, now former head of Asian football, said the ethics committee had reached its conclusions relying on circumstantial evidence, which was "bogus" and "based on lies".

rely on信赖, 依赖
例句：You can't rely on the weather.
天气是靠不住的。

8. Two of its carriages fell off a bridge.

fall off跌落, 滚落下
例句：When you are learning to ride a bicycle, you often fall off.
初学骑自行车时, 常会从车上掉下来。

9. The march was in protest at the violent response to a demonstration in Alexandria on Friday calling for political reform.

call for要求，需要，提倡
例句：The letter calls for an investigation of the facts.
来信要求对这些事实进行调查。

10. Opposition supporters called for President Abdoulaye Wade not to stand for a third term in office in next year's election.

stand for为…而奋斗; 拥护
例句：He stood for the cause of liberty and justice.
他为自由和正义的事业而奋斗。