BBC news 2012-01-27 加文本 讲解翻译

provide for供给，为…提供
例句：The local government provided special buses for the guests.
地方政府为宾客提供了专车。

2. Mr Jonathan, who was speaking in an interview with the Reuters news agency, said there was no doubt that Boko Haram had links with other jihadist groups outside Nigeria.

no doubt无疑地;我确信
例句：No doubt I will succeed in the end.
我确信我最终会成功。

3. Mr Panetta said that after a decade of war and expanding defence budgets, this was a turning point: an opportunity to develop a new defence strategy which would result in a leaner but more flexible military.

result in导致,结果是
例句：The flood resulted in a considerable reduction in production.
这次水灾造成相当大的减产。

4. The navy and air force will lose older and less relevant equipment and some major procurement programmes, like the Joint Strike Fighter, will be slowed down.

slow down (使)生产缓慢, (使)变得迟钝
例句：The increase of productions has now slowed down.
现在产品的增长速度已经慢了下来。

5. A former Guatemalan military leader Efrain Rios Montt has appeared before a court in Guatemala for a preliminary hearing that could lead to him being charged with genocide.

lead to导致, 引起
例句：An ordinary cold can soon lead to a fever.
一场普通的感冒很快便会引起高烧。
charge with指控…犯有罪
例句：They charged him with negligence of duty.
他们指责他玩忽职守。

6. On Sunday, the league called for the Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to step down and hand power to his deputy.

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。
step down退休, 辞职
例句：The manager had to step down on account of poor health.
那位经理由于身体不好, 只能辞职不干。

7. They say the locusts are looking for food which is high in carbohydrates similar to a junk food diet for humans.

look for寻找(某人或某物)
例句：Some birds are looking for food.
有些鸟在寻找食物。

8. Our study suggests (that) sort of counter-intuitively that if we have an impending outbreak - so a large number of juveniles of this particular locust - (that) we could use nitrogen fertilizer to apply that to some of the localised outbreaks, and then that would actually suppress their numbers going into adults and would likely suppress future swarms.

apply to运用
例句：He applies his mind to the difficulty.
他专心思考这个问题。

9. A government office in the Irish capital Dublin has banned applicants from wearing pajamas when they attend interviews to assess their welfare payments.

ban from禁止
例句：They were banned from attending.
禁止他们出席。

10. It may have started when people nipped out wearing their slippers to the shops, but welfare officers in north Dublin are, it appears, fed up with what has been branded "pajamafication".

feed up with使对…厌烦，使厌倦
例句：I'm fed up with this wet weather.
我讨厌这种潮湿的天气。