BBC在线收听下载:英国任命加拿大央行长为英格兰银行长

短语讲解：

1. Mr Carney is a Canadian national, though the chancellor said he intends to apply for a British citizenship.

apply for 申请
例句：I'd like to apply for a credit card.
我想申请信用卡。

2. His spokesman said he would not withdraw the decree, but agree to reassure the judges that the scope of his new powers was limited to matters of  sovereignty.

agree to 同意
例句：I may agree to some extent.
我也许会有点同意.

3. We just heard from the president's spokesman, it is a five-hour long meeting between the president and judges.

hear from 收到…的来信
例句：We often hear from her.
我们经常收到她的来信。

4. That meeting has ended. And it sounds from the language of the President's spokesman although we already have had his side of the story so far, that they may have reached a compromise.

so far 迄今
例句：This has so far been a disappointment.
这是迄今令人失望。

5. At least six others were injured in the fire in the Black Forest town of Titisee-Neustadt.

at least 至少
例句：Can we at least try?
我们至少试试看吧？

6. A BBC correspondent says that if confirmed, the seizure of the Tishrin dam would add to the growing encirclement of Aleppo, Syria's commercial capital.

add to 添加
例句：Than add to our farm tractors to be slow, but we can do is this.
这比给我们的农田添加拖拉机要慢，但我们能做的也就是这些。