BBC在线收听下载:美联储调低今年增长预期

1. The results were scheduled to be announced on Thursday, but the election commission said it needed more time to review hundreds of complaints filed by the rival candidates.

hundreds of 数以百计,许多
例句：We paid hundreds of millions of dollars in taxes. 
我们交纳了数亿美元的税金。 

2. The central bankers' report says there's still a recovery in the United States, but it's just slowed down, and what's happening in the rest of the world poses significant risks.

slow down 减缓
例句：Slow down a bit and let me come up with you. 
跑慢一点让我赶上吧。 

3. The man was shot as he came out of the bank holding one of his hostages. Overpowered by police, he was treated for gunshot wounds on the spot, but his life is not in danger.

in danger 危险中
例句：Apes are in danger of extinction 
猿类正处于绝种的危险之中。 

4. The English woman who gave birth to the world's first test tube baby has died at the age of 64.

give birth to 生(孩子)
例句：Though a mother give Birth to nine sons, all nine will be different 
一娘养九子九子九个心 

5. Speaking later she said she'd been so desperate to have a baby she was willing to put up with anything to give birth.
 
put up with 忍受;容忍
例句：I don't know how his parents put up with his antics.
我不知道他的父母是如何忍受他的怪异行为。