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短语讲解：

1. Parties of left and right both picked up seats.

pick up 捡起
例句：Are you going to pick up those carrot sticks?
你要把这些胡萝卜丁给捡起来吗？

2. That’s why we, France and Germany want by May to put forward proposals for the stabilization and deepening of the economic and monetary union.

put forward 提出；将…提前
例句：He advises I put forward the application immediately.
他劝我立即提出申请。

3. As a result, some 600,000 families in Santiago, around a third of the city’s population have been left without water.

as a result 因此
例句：As a result, many people prefer to walk.
于是，许多人宁愿走路。

4. He never returned because by the end of the conflict Yugoslavia was no longer a kingdom but a Communist Republic led by Marshall Tito.

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

5. King Peter lived in London.

live in 住在（某地）；存在于…
例句：I used to live in london.
我过去一直住在伦敦。