BBC news 2012-01-22 加文本 讲解翻译

cope with对付…
例句：I cannot cope with that boy; he is stubborn.
我对付不了那个孩子, 他很固执。

2. All day long, people have been streaming towards the mortuary of the main hospital in Kano to look for the bodies of loved ones so they can be taken for burial.

look for寻找
例句：She is looking for her lost child.
她正在寻找失去的孩子。

3. As dusk fell over Kano, armed police and army checkpoints were being set up across the city, and other security measures tightened up

set up建立，建造, 创立, 竖立
例句：Plenty of foreign firms have set up factories here.
很多外国公司已在这里开办工厂。
tighten up使紧密;加强
例句：He says he will take step to tighten up the administration
他说他将采取措施加强行政管理。

4. They had been putting themselves forward as pragmatists by contrast with the more hard-line Islamists, known as Salafists, whom they beat into second place.

put forward将…提前
例句：The attack had been put forward an hour.
进攻提前了一小时。
by contrast相比之下
例句：By contrast, he was much cleverer.
相比之下, 他要机灵得多。

5. Under Egypt's presidential system, it's still up to the army and the new president when one is elected to nominate the government, so the winners of this election don't automatically take office.

take office就职
例句：When will the new President take office?
新总统什么时候就职。

6. Witnesses said the protesters used stones and iron bars to break into the offices.

break into闯入, 强行进入, 破门而入
例句：We had to break into the house as we had lost the key.
因为我们弄丢了钥匙, 所以不得不破门而入。

7. The transitional government is accused of failing to provide transparency or justice.

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

8. The front-runner until now, Mitt Romney, appears to be neck and neck with Newt Gingrich, the former House speaker who's emerging as the latest champion of the party's conservative right wing.

neck and neck并驾齐驱
例句：I mean to catch him up and come neck and neck into the winning post.
我决心追上他, 和他齐头并进, 去夺取胜利。

9. Many on the march carried banners in foreign languages appealing to Brussels and other European capitals to respect Hungarian sovereignty.

appeal to向…呼吁; 向…请求;恳求
例句：He earnestly appealed to his friends for support.
他恳切地向朋友请求支持。

10. The voyage almost never happened. Truancy and child protection officers tried to stop Laura from setting sail on the grounds that she would miss too much school and that such a long trip wasn't safe for such a young girl.

stop from阻止某事发生
例句：Eyebrows stop sweat from coming down into the eyes.
眉毛挡住汗水使其不能流进眼睛。