BBC news 2011-09-13 加文本

短语讲解：

1. Oil just got mixed with draining water.

mix with (使)与…混〔结〕合
例句：This paint mixes easily with water.
这种颜料容易与水混合。

2. There were hundreds upon hundreds of people looking at the Red Cross workers trying to carry out rescue operations.

carry out抬出去; 拿出去
例句：She fainted in the waiting room and had to be carried out.
她在候车室里晕过去了, 被抬了出去。

3. We understand Red Cross have put up tents in that area and are offering counselling to the residents.

put up建造
例句：They put up a tent by the fire.
他们在火堆旁搭起了一个帐篷。

4. One person has been killed and four injured in an explosion at a nuclear site near the city of Nimes, in southern France. The French French Nuclear Safety Authority said a security cordon was set up around the Marcoule plant as a precaution.

set up建立，建造, 创立, 竖立
例句：Plenty of foreign firms have set up factories here.
很多外国公司已在这里开办工厂。

5. I think there was a lot of concern initially that there may have been a leak into the surrounding area, but I think nerves have been calmed by the French Nuclear Safety Authority that say they have the fire under control, there hasn't been a leak as far as they are aware, and they are saying that the explosion was in a furnace in an area of the plant where they melt down and recycle its nuclear waste energy.

melt down将…熔化
例句：This workshop melts down the metal scrap.
这个车间熔化废金属。

6. By all accounts, the waste in question has fairly low radioactivity, and this is now being described as an industrial and not a nuclear accident.

by all accounts据大家所说, 人人都这么说
例句：They didn't pass the exam by all accounts.
据说他们没有通过考试。

7. The scientist in charge of the anti-doping laboratory during next year's Olympics in London says it will be more difficult for athletes to cheat.

in charge of主管，负责
例句：The cook is in charge of the kitchen helper.
这位厨师负责管理厨工。

8. Several Olympic competitors have been accused of blood doping, but so far scientists have not been able to devise a test to prove it.

accuse of指责, 控告
例句：The man was accused of being a spy.
那人被指控是个间谍。

9. In the EU, the recording had been about to come out of copyright as until now in Europe, records have entered the public domain after 50 years.

come out of由…产生,从…出来
例句：No good would come out of it.
这不会有什么好结果。