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BBC在线收听下载:朴槿惠当选韩国首位女总统
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1. President Obama has asked his Vice President Joe Biden to come up with concrete proposals for curbing gun violence by next month, following the mass shooting at a school in Connecticut.
come up with 追赶上;比得上
例句:Slow down a bit and let me come up with you.
跑慢一点让我赶上吧。
2. The president indicated that proposals might include banning assault weapons and high-capacity magazines, as well as a more wide-reaching system of background checks.
as well as 也,又
例句:She can speak japanese as well as english.
她会说日语和英语。
3. But he also emphasized other aspects of a complex problem, saying that access to mental healthcare should be at least as easy as access to a gun, and that the country is a whole needed to look at a culture, which he said, all too often glorified violence.
at least 至少
例句:At least two yeas of experience.
至少有两年的经验。
look at 看待
例句:Look at those bastards!
看那两个杂种!
4. The Pakistani authorities need to come up with new strategies to catch those carrying out the attacks, to offer health workers security and to change the mindset of those putting their own children at risk of a debilitating disease.
carry out 贯彻
例句:We must carry out the party's policies.
我们要贯彻党的政策。
5. The shootings in two villages in southern Afghanistan provoked angry protests. No U.S. service member has been executed in more than 50 years.
more than 超过
例句:She was no more than 16.
她是不超过16个。
6. Normally the chorus performs off-stage unseen, but for this particular ballet, the director had wanted some of its members on[-]stage and given that they'll be in full view of the audience, they need to be moving their heads to the rhythm of the music.
but for 如果没有
例句:But for her help, I should have failed.
如果不是她帮忙的话,我失败了。
7. Romania's incoming Prime Minister Victor Ponta has announced that he and President Traian Basescu have agreed to end a long-running feud, in order to reassure the markets.
in order to 为了…
例句:I shut my eyes in order to see.
我闭上眼睛,以求能看见。