BBC news 2011-08-17 加文本

短语讲解：

1. But according to one of his close aides, the 74-year-old anti-corruption campaigner is refusing to leave and has gone on hunger strike.

according to 根据
例句：Everthing went according to plan. 
一切都按计划进行（或实现）了。 

2. The main theme from Chancellor Angela Merkel and President Sarkozy was a call for more integration in the economic management of the eurozone.

call for 需要
例句：Different circumstances call for different tactics. 
不同的情势需要不同的策略。 

3. A British parliamentary committee investigating the phone-hacking scandal that led to the closure of Rupert Murdoch's News of the World says it may want to question Mr Murdoch's son James again in the light of new evidence.

lead to 导致
例句：The wording is likely to lead to ambiguity. 
这种措词可能会引出歧义。 

4. One of the MPs on the committee, Therese Coffey, said the evidence opened up a new line of inquiry.

open up 开启
例句：They decided to open up an office in the town. 
他们决定在那个镇上设立个办事处。 

5. Officials in Afghanistan say that at least seven people have been killed in a bomb explosion in the south of the country.

at least 至少
例句：At least, I sincerely hope so. 
至少我是真诚地这样希望的。 

6. More than 5,000 inmates who were at the jail escaped at the end of Ivory Coast's civil war in March.

More than 多于
例句：I have no more than a nodding acquaintance with her novels. 
我对她写的小说不甚了解. 
at the end of 最后
At the end of the first half there's no score. 
上半场结束时, 双方均未得分。 

7. Reports of gunfire and shelling have been emerging from the town all day.

emerge from 自...出现
例句：The rabbit will not emerge from its hole while you are there. 
你在那儿,兔子是不会出洞的。 
all day 整天
He felt funny all day yesterday. 
例句：昨儿一整天他都觉得不舒服。 

8. Correspondents say a floatation in Asia, where the club has a huge following, could go a long way to wiping out the debt.

wipe out 歼灭的行动;完全毁灭
例句：This is the place that we wipe out more than 7000 enemies. 
这就是我们歼灭七千多敌人的地方。 

9. The premier of the Canadian province of Quebec, Jean Charest, has laughed off a report on the website of a Montreal daily that he'd died of a heart attack.

laugh off 用笑掩饰
例句：He could only laugh off the spilled dinner. 
他只能对打翻的晚餐一笑置之
die of 因...而死
例句：He died of a heart seizure. 
他死于心脏病突然发作。 

10. Mr Charest said the paper, Le Devoir, had often written him off, but never quite in this way.

write off 勾销,取消
例句：We'll just have to write off the arrangement if we can't find the money for it. 
这项计划如果筹不到钱就只得取消。