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BBC在线收听下载:英格兰国家队主帅卡佩罗辞职
1. But with the images of death and destruction from Homs in recent days, calls for international action to stop the killing have only grown more urgent.
call for需要
例句:This is a problem that calls for immediate solution.
这是个迫切需要解决的问题。
2. Turkey is now trying to keep up the pressure on President Assad.
keep up保持
例句:He kept up a correspondence with Tom.
他和汤姆保持通信联系。
3. The Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu has proposed an international conference hosted by Turkey, saying that if the UN Security Council can't protect civilians, then like-minded countries should get together to do so.
get together集合,聚集
例句:He got them together to talk matters over.
他把他们召集一块儿来商量事情。
4. If I was to use one word to sum up the mood as we left, it would be despair, people absolutely terrified.
sum up总结, 概括
例句:It can be summed up in two words.
这可以用三言两语概括起来。
5. It's not clear exactly what the Syrian forces are targeting, whether they are trying to deliberately hit military targets of the Free Syrian Army, but whatever their intention, civilians are undoubtedly bearing the brunt.
bear the brunt首当其冲
例句:I had to bear the brunt of his anger.
他发脾气时, 我是首当其冲。
6. Security forces in the Maldives have used batons and fired tear gas to break up a rally in the capital Male in support of the former President Mohamed Nasheed. Andrew North reports.
break up (使)散开, (使)解散
例句:They break up the meeting.
他们散会了。
in support of支持
例句:The judge quoted various cases in support of his opinion.
那位法官引证不同的案例以支持他的意见。
7. I'm in the main square in Male where large numbers of army and police in riot gear are still cordoning it off after the clashes with supporters of the former President Mohamed Nasheed.
cordon off用警戒线隔离[阻挡]
例句:Police cordoned off the area until the bomb was defused.
警方封锁了这个地区直到炸弹被拆除为止。
8. The water has very probably been cut off from the outside world for millennia, in which case any microorganisms in the lake will almost certainly have evolved into new forms.
cut off切断;中断
例句:I was cut off on my line to London.
我打伦敦长途时,电话线被切断了。
9. My understanding, and I have spoken to key people at the FA, I understand that Fabio actually resigned, that there was no ill feeling, that he left on very good terms, that the whole meeting was played out with proper decorum.
play out演完,做完;用光;使破产;使精疲力竭;输光
例句:The match was not yet played out.
比赛还没有结束。
10. Ghana missed a penalty and had a man sent off. And then in the other match, Ivory Coast beat Mali 1-0 also to book their place in the final.
send off派往; 运出
例句:His teacher sent him off to the principal's office.
他的老师派他到校长室去。