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BBC news 2012-01-24 加文本讲解翻译

2012-01-24来源:BBC

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1. The Iranian government has condemned European Union sanctions imposed in an attempt to stop Tehran's alleged nuclear weapons programme, calling them "illogical and unfair".

in an attempt to力图,试图
例句：The police fire tear-gas shells in an attempt to disperse the crowd.
警察施放催泪弹企图驱散人群。

2. A spokesman for Iran's foreign ministry said the measures were doomed to fail.

be doomed to注定
例句：The project was doomed to failure.
这工程注定失败。

3. It has imposed an oil embargo on Iran and frozen the assets of its central bank.

impose on把…加于
例句：The government imposed a heavy tax on luxury goods.
政府对奢侈品课以重税。

4. The Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki has called for calm after the International Criminal Court in The Hague announced it's charging four senior politicians with crimes against humanity.

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。
charge with指控…犯有罪
例句：I charge this man with receiving stolen goods.
我指控此人接受赃物。

5. But a spokesman for the ICC has told the BBC that those accused may not be able to appeal against going to trial.

appeal against提起上诉
例句：She will appeal against the judge's decision.
她要对判决提出上诉。

6. A US marine in charge of a unit accused of killing 24 unarmed Iraqi civilians in 2005 has pleaded guilty to dereliction of duty. Here's Alastair Leithead.

in charge of主管，负责
例句：I'll be in charge of the whole factory next week when the director is away.
下周厂长不在时, 我将负责整个工厂。

7. Prosecutors at the court-martial at Camp Pendleton in southern California said Wuterich had lost control after seeing his friend blown up in a bombing and had led his men on a rampage.

blow up (使)爆炸, 将…炸毁, 毁掉
例句：A chemical factory blew up in the North of England.
英国北部的一座化工厂爆炸了。

8. The chairman of the BBC Trust, Chris Patten, has accused British politicians of allowing newspapers to have too much influence over them in the past 25 years.

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

9. He said he had advised colleagues and at least one prime minister they shouldn't worry so much about what's printed.

worry about担忧, 烦恼
例句：He worried about how to make his living.
他为如何谋生发愁。

10. He's also accused of revealing the identity of an agent who took part in an operation to catch the al-Qaeda suspect Abu Zubaydah.

take part in参加…, 参与…活动
例句：John takes part in many school activities.
约翰参加很多学校里的活动。