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BBC在线收听下载:意大利前总理贝卢斯科尼寻求连任

2012-12-23来源:BBC

短语讲解:

1. President Morsi is expected to win an approval for the draft constitution, but the referendum has exposed deep divisions here.

be expected to 被期待做某事
例句:You'll be expected to justify your actions.
你将需要为你的行为提供正当的理由。

2. He said he wanted to resign in early November, but he stayed on for the good of the country.

stay on 继续停留
例句:He could stay on atlantis instead.
他也可以留在亚特兰蒂斯。

3. It's thought he may have been unhappy with the president's policies and didn't want to be associated with the results of the referendum.

associate with 与…交往, 联系
例句:Always associate with wise people.
总要与智慧人为伍。

4. The government of Tunisia is putting up for auction property that had belonged to the ousted president, Zine al Abidine Ben Ali, and some of his relatives.

belong to 属于
例句:They don't belong to anybody.
那些信息不属于任何人。

5. Pope Benedict has granted a pardon to his former butler, who was sentenced to 18 months in prison for the theft of papal documents and for leaking them to a journalist.

be sentenced to 被判处
例句:If convicted, he could be sentenced to death.
一旦罪名成立,他可能获判死刑。

6. However, the bad news is that the butler who betrayed the Pope's trust  will now have to find himself another job and can no longer live in the apartment which was assigned to him inside the walls of Vatican City.

no longer 不再
例句:She is no longer a child.
她不再是小孩子了。

7. Kenya's parliament on Friday asked the government to set up an inquiry into the police killings, the most deadly in the country's history.

set up 建立
例句:What if we set up a foundation?
如果我们建立一个基金呢?