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1. For months, the governments in both Pakistan and the US were looking for a formula to reopen Nato supply routes without either side looking like a loser.

look for 寻找
例句：She is looking for her lost child.
她正在寻找失去的孩子。

2. An investigating magistrate is looking into claims that staff acting for the L'Oreal heiress Liliane Bettencourt, gave 150,000 euros in cash to Mr Sarkozy's aides during his bid to becomepresident in 2007.

look into 在...里查资料;深入地检查,研究;调查
例句：The Government set up a working party to look into the problem. 
政府成立了工作组调查那个问题. 

3. Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, has asked for a recount of the votes cast in Sunday's election.

ask for 要,要求
例句：Ask for forgiveness, not permission. 
请求原谅，而不是许可。 

4. More than 40 people have been killed by a series of bomb attacks in Iraq targeting Shia Muslims before a religious festival.

more than 多于
例句：Rob likes apples more than bananas. 
罗勃对苹果比对香蕉还喜欢。 

5. Most of the victims were killed in the southern city of Diwaniya.

most of 绝大多数
例句：Mostly right, most of the time 
多数情况下，多数是对的 

6. Separately, the authority announced it will be unable to pay salaries for public sector workers this month due to what it called the worst funding crisis in years.

due to 因为,由于
例句：Her absence was due to the storm.
由于风雨交加她没来。

7. So far, Palestinians have been relatively untouched by the so-called Arab Spring, but some believe that economic hardship, coupled with frustration of the Palestinian leadership inability to end or ease Israel's ongoing occupation, could create an atmosphere where that might change.

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

8. The French Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault said he wanted to prevent groups such as al-Qaeda in Islamic Maghreb threatening the peace and security of the whole region, as well as France.

as well as 和...一样;和;也
例句：He composed mystery stories as well as love poems. 
他既写爱情诗也写神秘故事。