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BBC news 2011-07-29 加文本
短语讲解：
1. Taliban militants have carried out a major attack in southern Afghanistan, using multiple suicide bombs, rocket-propelled grenades and machine guns.
carry out贯彻，执行；实现
例句：He carried out the plan in very detail.
他一丝不苟地执行那项计划。
2. The health minister has said that the former president is now fit enough to travel from his hospital in Sharm el-Sheikh to Cairo, and this is where the trial is scheduled to start next Wednesday.
be scheduled to 计划，安排
例句：The meeting was tentatively scheduled to be held Tuesday.
这个会议暂定于星期二举行。
3. Hours before a key vote in Congress on the American debt crisis, leaders of the country's biggest banks have called on President Obama and lawmakers to reach a deal.
call on要求, 请求, 号召
例句：You'd better call on your friends to help you.
你最好请朋友来帮你。
4. The House of Representatives is due to vote on a Republican Party plan to raise the government's borrowing limit and cut spending.
be due to预定, 预期
例句：The boat is due to arrive at 12.
船预计在12点到。
5. The White House Press Secretary Jay Carney said most Americans understand what's at stake.
at stake濒于险境，处于成败关头
例句：Your health is at stake.
你的健康状况濒临危险。
6. If Congress does not compromise and does not act, that allowing the United States to default for the first time in its history would have severe economic consequences and would - everyone, every family that owns a home and has a mortgage would be affected. Every American who has a car and a car payment would be affected, a student loan, a credit card.
for the first time第一次
例句：They starred her for the first time.
他们第一次让她当主角。
7. Police say he'd been absent from another army base since early July.
be absent from缺席…
例句：Mary is absent from school.
玛丽没去学校上课。
8. The new President of Peru, Ollanta Humala, has been sworn in, promising the poor a greater share of the benefits of economic growth.
swear in使宣誓就职
例句：The new Governor is being sworn in next week.
下星期新总督要宣誓就职。
9. The extraordinary profits of the mining companies must contribute to the national effort to reduce poverty.
contribute to捐助;帮助
例句：How much did you contribute to the relief fund?
你为那笔救济金捐了多少?
10. The hotel maid who's accused the former chief of the International Monetary Fund, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, of sexually assaulting her says she's been left traumatised.
accuse of指责, 控告
例句：She accused the official of corruption.
她指控这位官员腐败。
11. These past two months, like I say I'm going through a lot.
go through遭受, 经受, 经历
When he was a child, he went through one hardship after another.
孩提时代, 他经历了一个又一个的艰难困苦。
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