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1. Those words will infuriate their critics who say that is exactly what the military themselves have failed to do.

fail to 未能...
例句：Fail to pay and they'll cut off the electricity. 
你（如果）不付款，他们就要断电。 

2. He later returned to find homes burn down and the child bodies of old people who wouldn't be able to escape.

burn down 烧毁
例句：The building was burnt down.
房子烧毁了。

3. They continue to shabby each other until the show are probably ended.

each other 相互
例句：Both girls write to each other regularly now. 
两个姑娘现在定期互相通信。 

4. He said Congress should not hold the vast majority of the Americans and the entire economy hostage to a debate about tax cut for the wealthy adding: let us agree to do what we agree on.

agree on 同意
例句：They agree on these terms. 
他们一致同意这些条款。 

5. The president said the biggest threat to a peaceful existence came from Sudan.

come from 来自
例句：Ambient noise may come from any direction. 
外界噪声可以来自任意方向。

6. Judge Miloslav Studnicka made Czech legal history two years ago when he handed down exemplary sentences to four Neo Nazi # who admitted fire bombing a Romani household.

hand down 把...传下去
例句：This custom has been handed down since the 18th century.
这风俗从十八世纪开始流传下来。

7.  Now according to reports in the Czech media he has died found at his country cottage with his throat cut.

according to 根据;按照
例句: They divided themselves into three groups according to age.
他们按年龄分成三组。

8. The men had been cut off when a wagon carrying coal derailed and hit one of the beams supporting the tunnel marking it down.

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. Reports from India say the government has bought thousands of documents relating to Mahatma Gandhi, days before they will due to put up for auction in London.

due to 因为,由于
例句：Her absence was due to the storm.
由于风雨交加她没来。
put up 建造
例句：They put up a tent by the fire.
他们在火堆旁搭起了一个帐篷。