BBC news 2011-10-14 加文本

短语讲解：

1. The Dadaab camp is home to hundreds of thousands of Somalis who fled from fighting and famine in their home country.

flee from从…逃离; 避免
例句：All the animals fled from the fire.
所有的动物都逃离了火场。

2. Now Kenya is a sovereign country of course; the Kenyan police is(应该是are) in charge of security in the camp.

in charge of主管，负责
例句：I'll be in charge of the whole factory next week when the director is away.
下周厂长不在时, 我将负责整个工厂。

3. They immediately responded to the appeal.

respond to对…作出反应〔回答〕
例句：The teacher responded affirmatively to the question that student put forward.
老师对那个学生的问题作了肯定的回答。

4. A court in the United States has sentenced a New York-based financier to 11 years in prison for insider trading, the longest sentence in a generation for such an offence. Raj Rajaratnam had already been found guilty of trading on illegal tips supplied by insiders at some of America's leading companies.

trade on (不公正地)利用
例句：He always trades on his social standing to trade with others.
他经常利用自己的社会地位与别人进行交易。

5. But Mr Rajaratnam's defence lawyers counted that the Sri Lankan-born businessman made only $7m from the scheme and that his health problems called for leniency.

call for要求
例句：The letter calls for an investigation of the facts.
来信要求对这些事实进行调查。

6. It is thought Mr Rajaratnam is likely to appeal against his sentence.

appeal against提起上诉
例句：She will appeal against the judge's decision.
她要对判决提出上诉。

7. She told a story of how in 2003 she'd gone to see him for an interview and had to fight off what she said was a rape attempt.

fight off在战斗〔自卫〕中击败(某人); 竭力摆脱〔驱走, 阻止, 回避…〕
例句：This is a possible cure to fight off cancer.
这也许是治愈癌症的良方。

8. The election commission said she had won more than 40% of votes so far compared with about 25% for the former diplomat Winston Tubman, although only a few ballots have been counted.

compare with (把…)与…相比
例句：How does your new house compare with your old one?
你的新房子和你的旧房子比起来怎样?

9. And for Iran to have been involved in a plot like this indicates the degree to which it has been outside of accepted norms of international behaviour for far too long.

involve in使参与〔陷入, 牵扯到〕
例句：Don't involve yourself in unnecessary dispute.
不要把自己卷入无谓的争论中。

10. Police say the first bomb went off near a house.

go off爆炸；(枪炮等)被发射；突然发出响声
例句：He fired but his pistol failed to go off.
他扳动了扳机，但手枪没有发射。