BBC news 2011-11-10 加文本

短语讲解：

1. That's the point at which several much smaller eurozone countries had to ask for international bailouts.

ask for 请求…, 要求…
例句：We often asked the veteran workers for advice.
我们常常向老工人求教。

2. President Napolitano called for the country to find a renewed sense of responsibility and cohesion.

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。

3. A meeting between the prime minister, president and other political parties intended to name the country's next leader has broken up, and another round of talks called for

break up (使)破裂; 结束
例句：The party breaks up and the neighbors hurry home.
宴会就此结束, 邻居们匆匆地赶回家去。

4. But behind the scenes, the wrangling goes on, leaving a perilous power vacuum.

go on继续下去
例句：If he goes on like this he'll lose his job.
如果他继续这样下去,他会丢掉差事的。

5. A Saudi man has gone on trial at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp charged with being behind an al-Qaeda attack on an American warship in Yemen more than a decade ago.

charge with指控…犯有罪
例句：He was falsely charged with robbery.
他被诬告犯有抢劫罪。

6. Abd al-Rahim al-Nashiri is accused of organising the suicide attack on the USS Cole in the year 2000.

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

7. The US army has handed over its second biggest base in Iraq to the Iraqi government ahead of the planned withdrawal of all American forces at the end of the year.

hand over交出; 交付; 交给
例句：The material was handed over to the department just in time.
材料及时地交给了有关部门。
ahead of在…之前
例句：She left one day ahead of him.
她是在他离开的前一天离开的。

8. President Obama has approved an unusual measure to help reduce America's budget deficit by cutting back on the number of branded coffee mugs, T-shirts and other official trinkets given away by government departments.

give away赠送; 赠予; 颁发;分发
例句：He gave away most of his fortune to the poor.
他把他的大部分财产都送给了穷人。

9. The items, known collectively as swag, are paid for by taxpayers and used by the government to promote its work.

pay for为…付钱
例句：How much did you pay for the book?
那本书你付了多少钱?