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BBC在线收听下载:塞浦路斯人民对银行征税感到愤怒
短语讲解:
1. Bank customers have been taken out what money they can but it’s unlikely they will be able to get round the levy while the bailout was announced in Brussels the Cypriot government was already taking steps to ensure that it would be able to collect the money.
take out 清除;获取
例句:Cut that nectarine into four pieces and then take out the pit.
把那颗油桃切成四片,再取出果核。
be able to 能,会;能够
例句:We'll be able to smooth away these difficulties.
我们能够克服这些困难。
2. One reason for introducing the levy is to reduce the amount of new debt the Cypriot government has to take on under the bailout but there is also a political element, a lot of the money in those bank accounts belongs to wealthy foreigners.
belong to 归属
例句:They don't belong to anybody.
那些信息不属于任何人。
3. The U.S. president arrives in Israel on Wednesday.
arrive in 抵达,到达;乘车到达
例句:When do they arrive in madrid?
它们什么时候到达马德里?
4. We are grouping the people still come together to discuss politics.
come together 聚会,相见;
例句:The parallels seem to come together in the distance.
平行线在远处看上去似交合在一起。
5. Both Mr. Mugabe and his Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai support the new constitution which is expected to be approved.
be expected to 有望做某事;期许
例句:I can't be expected to perform miracles.
不能期望我创造奇迹。