BBC在线收听下载:奥巴马与罗姆尼动员选民投票

短语讲解：

1. Speaking ahead of Tuesday's presidential election, Mr Bloomberg said some 143,000 voters in the city would be reassigned to different polling stations because of the storm.

because of 因为
例句：She left because of hatred.
她离开了因为怨恨。

2. We'll do anything we can to help the board of elections, the governor has tried the same thing, and this is a system that is not run by the state or by the city, they have real problems and we've got to make sure that everybody can vote.

make sure 确定
例句：Please make sure nothing is wrong.
请确定这是万无一失。

3. It's not gonna be easy, but we will both work hard on that.

work hard 努力工作
例句：Above all you should work hard.
首先你应该努力工作。

4. South Sudan says it has expelled a United Nations official who is carrying out an investigation to the human rights situation in the country.

carry out 执行
例句：We ought to carry out the task.
我们必须执行这项任务。

5. The biggest group, the Syrian National Council, consisting largely of academics and exiles, is holding four days of internal talks aimed at bringing in younger elements close to the events on the ground in Syria itself.

close to 接近
例句：Your speculations were all quite close to the truth.
你的揣测都很接近于事实。

6. Late in the week they'll consider a proposal to set up a unified leadership body. One opposition leader, Riad Seif says he believes this is the key to winning real support from the outside world.

set up 建立
例句：When was this organization set up?
这个组织是何时建立的？

7. Reports from the Russian capital Moscow say several people have been injured after violence broke out at the end of March by hardline nationalists.

break out 爆发
例句：It may break out again at any time.
有可能随时再次爆发。