BBC news 2012-01-12 加文本 讲解翻译

短语讲解：

1. And I was running down, and then I saw the body of Gilles laying there.

run down (使)虚弱, 疲乏
例句：This exhausting work is enough to run everyone down.
这项费力的工作足以使人精疲力竭。

2. The Prime Minister of Pakistan, Yousuf Raza Gilani, has sacked a top official of the Ministry of Defence, Naeem Khalid Lodhi, a retired army general, and accused him of gross misconduct.

accuse of指责, 控告
例句：We accused him of taking bribes.
我们控告他受贿。

3. Of course tensions between the two institutions were ever-present in Pakistan, but they really boiled over in October when a memo emerged which appeared to show Pakistan's civilian leadership asking for American help to weaken the Pakistani army.

boil over发怒
例句：When I said that, he just boiled over.
我说了那句话, 他就发起火来。

4. The attack on a unit of the army's Frontier Corps took place late on Wednesday.

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. The militant Islamist sect in Nigeria Boko Haram has released a video seeking to justify its recent attacks on Christians.

seek to企图; 试图
例句：I sought to change her mind.
我试图改变她的心意。

6. The man regarded as the group's leader, Abubakar Shekau, said the attacks were in revenge for the killing of Muslims across northern Nigeria.

regard as把…认作
例句：I regard him as my brother.
我把他当作兄弟。

7. Security agents who've taken up arms against us and their accomplices, these are the people we are at war with and of course Christians because everyone knows what they did to us.

take up拿起; 抱起
例句：He took up telephone receiver and began to dial.
他拿起电话听筒开始拨号码。

8. Hours later, suspected Boko Haram gunmen killed four Christian traders in the northern city of Potiskum. Boko Haram has carried out a series of bombings, including one on a church outside the capital Abuja on Christmas Day, which killed 37 people.

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。

9. Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan, who worked at the Natanz uranium enrichment plant, was killed when two motorcyclists attached a magnetic bomb to his car. Iran accused the US and Israel of being behind the attack, but the American Secretary of State Hillary Clinton rejected the accusation.

attach to (使)贴〔系, 粘〕在…上
例句：The written directions are attached to the tool.
这个工具附有使用说明书。

10. The man pulled out a revolver and shot first at the judge but missed.

pull out拔出
例句：He pulled out the pistol and aimed at the enemy officer.
他拔出手枪, 瞄准敌军官。