BBC news 2011-10-07 加文本

短语讲解：

1. Uncertainty around Greece and their ability to pay their debts runs on - in the capital markets - on, you know, the debt that many of these southern European countries have been facing as well as Ireland and Portugal, all that's put severe strain on the world financial system.

put on增加; 强使承担(责任等)
例句：Why are you trying to put the blame on me?
你为什么总想把责任推到我身上呢?

2. The European Central Bank is offering unlimited loans to banks for as much as a year in order to stave off a possible credit crunch.

stave off避开,挡开,延迟
例句：You have had to write checks to stave off the ever-insistent claims of your creditors. 
你必须很快地据此而开出支票来偿付你的没完没了的欠债。

3. They are accused of fraud involving hundreds of millions of dollars of public funds. Jonah Fisher reports from Lagos.

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

4. The latest incident took place in a very remote part of Lebanon's eastern Bekaa Valley, where the border with Syria is porous and not even clearly defined.

take place发生; 举行
例句：The threatening strike did not take place after all.
可能来临的罢工终究没有发生。

5. But coming after a brief armoured incursion nearby by Syrian tanks earlier in the week, it's reinforced fears that Syria's internal problems may spill further into Lebanon.

come after跟着…来,跟在…后面
例句：Spring comes after the severe winter.
严冬过后是春天。

6. The Pakistani Supreme Court has told political parties they should cut their links with criminal gangs in Karachi, which have been responsible for more than 1,000 deaths this year.

be responsible for为…负责,形成…的原因
例句：The bad weather is responsible for the small attendance.
出席率低是由于天气不佳。

7. The court warned that gangs had inflicted unimaginable brutality and were threatening to plunge the city into chaos.

plunge into (使)突然陷入或呈现出
例句：A power failure plunged the whole house into sudden darkness.
停电了, 整个房子突然陷入一片漆黑之中。

8. It said criminals had succeeded in infiltrating political parties.

succeed in成功;顺利完成
例句：They succeeded in solving the problem.
他们成功地解决了这个问题。

9. Most of the observations made by the Supreme Court in its findings don't come as a surprise, but they do reaffirm the fact that the senseless and increasingly brutal killings have been carried out with official complicity.

carry out执行; 贯彻
例句：He carried out the plan in very detail.
他一丝不苟地执行那项计划。

10. The students called the protest after talks with the Chilean government on reforming the education system, which they say is unequal and underfunded, broke down on Wednesday.

break down失败, 破产
例句：Our plans have broken down.
我们的计划失败了。