BBC news 2011-10-20 加文本

短语讲解：

1. These deeply unpopular austerity measures are part of the price Greece is forced to pay for continuing financial support from abroad.

pay for为…付钱
例句：He was promptly paid for it.
他为那事立即得到报酬。

2. Around 100 insurgents are believed to have carried out the simultaneous assaults on eight targets just after midnight.

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

3. Thousands of indigenous demonstrators in Bolivia protesting against a controversial road project in the Amazon have reached the seat of government in La Paz.

protest against抗议
例句：All local farmers protested against building the new airport on their farm land.
当地农民抗议在他们的农田上建新飞机场。

4. The United Nations has warned it might have to shut down its aid operations in Ivory Coast because of a lack of funds just months after the end of a civil conflict that claimed thousands of lives.

shut down完全关闭，倒闭，停止运转
例句：The factory was shut down for two months as a result of the strike.
那工厂因罢工的结果而停工了两个月。

5. The British government says it's pulling out of plans to support an experimental power station that would trap the carbon dioxide being released by the power plant because of technical problems.

pull out (使)离开
例句：The country is pulling out of inflation.
这个国家正在摆脱通货膨胀的局面。

6. The idea is for power stations to burn coal or natural gas as usual but then to intercept the carbon dioxide that rises up the chimney, transport it by pipeline under the North Sea and store it in old oil fields.

rise up耸立, 上升
例句：We are sure that there is sb in the house because we see smoke rise straight up in the air.
我们确信房子里有人, 因为我们看到有烟冒出来。

7. The power companies involved and environmentalists describe this as a very heavy blow.

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

8. Malicious computer software similar to the Stuxnet worm that infected Iranian computers last year has been discovered on the systems of several European companies.

similar to相似，相同
例句：My problems are very similar to yours.
我的问题和你的差不多。

9. A day after around 50 wild animals escaped from a private zoo in Ohio, police say they have killed nearly all of them, including grizzly bears, lions and tigers.

escape from逃避, 逃出
例句：The soldiers escaped from the enemy's prison.
战士们从敌人监狱里逃了出来。