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短语讲解：

1. Tito said he was looking for a middle-aged man and woman for the journey that would last about 500 days.

look for 寻求
例句：You look for this girl?
你在找这个女孩儿？

2. We have not sent humans beyond the moon in 40 years. I’ve been waiting myself, and a lot of other people my age have been waiting and waiting.

a lot of 许多的；诸多
例句：What happened? We heard a lot of yelling.
发生了什么事？我们听到许多争吵声。

3. The right, the left will get together and they will govern a country of rubble that they are responsible for.

get together 聚会； 联欢
例句：They get together once a year on christmas day.
他们每年圣诞节聚会一次。

4. More than 1,000 people were killed in clashes that followed the last election in 2007.

more than 多于
例句：She was no more than 16.
她是不超过16个。

5. The president of Chad Idriss Deby has urged West African countries to speed up the deployment of troops to northern Mali.

speed up （使）加速
例句：We must speed up the pace of our economic reform.
我们必须加速经济改革的步伐。

6. More than 20 Chadian soldiers have been killed so far.

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

7. In 1955 she defiantly refused to give up her seat to a white man on a bus in the racially segregated city of Montgomery, Alabama.

give up 放弃；交出
例句：Should I give up this dream?
我应该放弃这梦想吗？