BBC news 2011-09-25 加文本

短语讲解：

1. It's unclear how many Gaddafi loyalists are still holding out there.

hold out顶住, 坚持
例句：We must hold out till victory.
我们必须坚持到胜利。

2. Hisham Sharaf, the Yemeni minister of trade and industry, told the BBC that the government side was making every effort to minimise civilian casualties.

make every effort作出努力
例句：I will make every effort to arrive on time.
我将尽一切努力准时到达。

3. We have taken all kinds of measures to avoid any casualties, but again these people say that they will go to heaven if they are killed.

take measures采取措施
例句：We should take appropriate measures to improve our teaching.
我们应当采取适当的措施提高教学质量。

4. These extremists, these dissident groups, they call on the population to go to be martyrs.

call on号召
例句：The government called on the workers to oppose waste.
政府号召工人反对浪费。

5. The ministers meeting in Washington are hoping the actions they take here will mean that won't be necessary.

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。

6. The Russian President Dmitry Medvedev has announced that the current Prime Minister Vladimir Putin should run for president in 2012.

run for竞选；让…竞选
例句：The Republican Party will run Johnson for President.
共和党将提出让约翰逊竞选总统。

7. One week after an earthquake hit northeastern India, Nepal and Tibet, many remote Indian villages are still cut off.

cut off使分离；使隔绝
例句：The village was cut off by the snow for more than a month.
这个村庄被大雪封闭了一个多月。

8. Nigerian police say they've arrested two men wanted in connection with a gang rape by five men of a woman whose ordeal was then posted on the Internet.

in connection with与…有关,连同
例句：He was in detention in connection with the bribery affair.
他因与贿赂事件有牵连而被拘留了。

9. Indigenous protesters in the Bolivian Amazon have broken through a police blockade to continue a long-distance march on the main city La Paz.

break through突围,突破
例句：Demonstrators tried to break through the police cordon. 
示威群众企图突破警察的封锁线。

10. The protesters are reported to have forced their way through police lines by taking hostage the Bolivian foreign minister, who'd come to negotiate with them.

negotiate with (就某事)与…进行交涉(以达成协议)
例句：We'll leave you to negotiate with them.
我们委托你去与他们谈判。