BBC news 2011-10-16 加文本

短语讲解：

1. Protests against what's perceived as corporate greed and economic mismanagement have been taking place around the world. Tens of thousands of people have taken to the streets in European cities.

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。

2. Finance ministers from the G20 group of major economies have ended a meeting on eurozone debt, saying they believe European leaders are making progress towards solving the crisis.

make progress前进,进步
例句：During these years the labour movement of the United States has made great progress.
这些年来, 美国的工人运动已取得巨大的进展。

3. And what you got here is a countdown to the big G20 summit with David Cameron, Barack Obama, President Sarkozy of France in three weeks' time, so a lot of pressure on the eurozone to sort their problems out by then.

sort out整顿, 解决; 分类, 整理
例句：Have you sorted out how to get there yet?
你解决了怎么到达那里的问题了吗?

4. The new decree will impose stiffer penalties for anyone found guilty of discrimination on the grounds of race or religion.

on the grounds of以…为理由；根据
例句：He was dismissed on the grounds of negligence.
他因渎职而遭解雇。

5. He told the BBC that voting material had been tampered with.

tamper with损害,篡改,贿赂,影响,瞎搞
例句：Two policemen were accused of tampering with the evidence.
有两名警察被控篡改证据。

6. We've seen documents where things were written over, figures on the original differed from what was showing on the subsequent copies, and this was clear tampering.

differ from与…不同
例句：She differs from her sister in the color of her eyes.
她与她姐姐眼睛的颜色不同。

7. The Venezuelan leader has previously described his treatment as successful, but correspondents say secrecy about the exact nature of his cancer has fuelled speculation that his illness may be worse than officially stated.

describe as 把…说成，描述为
例句：I should describe the attempt as a failure.
我认为这次尝试失败了。