BBC在线收听下载:玻利维亚将国有化西班牙输电公司

fall into 落入；陷于
例句：If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
如果由盲人带领盲人，两者将同堕深沟。 

2. It's a first symbolic step towards setting out a long-termrelationship designed to reassure the people of Afghanistan thatthey are not about to be abandoned when Nato ends its operationsthere in 18 months' time.

set out 开始，起身
例句：He bade his wife farewell and set out on his journey. 
他辞别了妻子便启程了

3. Mr Morales ordered the military to take over the subsidiary ofthe Spanish power company REE, which owns and runs around threequarters of Bolivia's power grid.

take over 接管
例句：Have a rest. I'll take over. 
你歇会儿, 我来替你。 

4. He said he was expropriating the company because it had failedto invest sufficiently in Bolivia.

fail to 没能做成
例句：If you don' t work, you will fail to pass the exam. 
如果你不学习，你考试就会不及格。 

5. The former head of the International Monetary Fund, DominiqueStrauss-Kahn, has had his application for diplomatic immunitythrown out by a judge in New York.

throw out 扔掉;赶走
例句：The drunken man was thrown out from the bar.
那醉汉被赶出了酒吧。

6. The head of UN peacekeeping, Herve Ladsous, told journaliststhat member states had so far promised only half this number ofmonitors, but he was confident the force would reach fullstrength.

so far 迄今为止
例句：It is merely a hypothesis; so far. 
到目前为止，这仅仅是一种假设。