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2011-07-28来源:BBC

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1. The Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg has announced the creation of an independent commission to look into the events surrounding Friday's bomb attack and mass shooting.

look into在...里查资料;深入地检查,研究;调查
例句:The government will look into how to reduce unemployment.
政府将研究如何降低失业率。

2. The panel will examine the killing of more than 70 people and the role of the police, who've been accused of responding too slowly.

accuse of指责, 控告
例句:He was accused of murder.
他被指控犯了谋杀罪。

3. However, it appears the government won't be waiting for the commission's report before taking action.

wait for等待, 等候
例句:He is waiting for something good to turn up.
他正期待着情况好转。
take action采取行动, 行动起来
例句:The police had to take firm action to deal with the riots.
警方不得不采取果断行动来对付骚乱。

4. Russia has criticised the United States for imposing a travel ban on 60 officials linked to the death in prison of a young Russian lawyer working for a US company.

impose on把...强加于
例句:The present trouble was imposed on him.
目前的困难是强加在他身上的。
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。

5. Ethnic Serbs in Kosovo have attacked and set ablaze a border post with Serbia hours after a dispute with the Kosovo police appeared to have been resolved.

set ablaze烧起,燃起
例句:The Norwegian Embassy in Damascus was set ablaze Saturday.
挪威驻大马士革大使馆星期六被点燃。

6. Earlier in the week, Kosovo police had attempted to take control of two crossings from a European Union mission, but eventually agreed to hand them back after skirmishes with ethnic Serbs.

take control of控制
例句:A military junta took control of the country.
一个军政权控制了国家。
hand back交还
He looked through the article and handed it back.
他看完了那篇文章后把它还了回去。

7. Police in Britain have arrested an 18-year-old man as part of an international investigation into two groups which have allegedly carried out cyber attacks on businesses and intelligence agencies.

carry out执行; 贯彻; 进行
例句:They also carry out experiments.
他们还进行实验。

8. Aids activists in Swaziland say HIV patients are so poor they are resorting to eating cow dung to fill their stomachs before taking antiretroviral drugs.

resort to诉诸于,采取
例句:One has sometimes to resort to these little devices.
人们有时还得依靠这些小玩意儿。

9. Swaziland has one of the world's highest rates of HIV and Aids infection, and its healthcare system is reported to be in ruins.

in ruins严重受损, 破败不堪
例句:The city lay in ruins after the earthquake.
地震之后, 这座城市成为一片废墟。

10. Protests were held in the Swazi capital calling on King Mswati's government to spend more on combating the pandemic.

call on要求, 请求, 号召
例句:He called on his friends to help him.
他向朋友求助。
spend on把…花在…
例句:He doesn't spend much time on his homework.
他花在作业上的时间不多。