BBC在线收听下载:孟加拉大楼倒塌女子被埋17天奇迹生还

短语讲解：

1. More than two weeks since the eight-storey factory complex collapsed, they’d given up hope of finding anyone else alive.

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

2. I kept banging as loud as I could with my legs but no one could hear me.

as ... as 和....一样
例句：I wish I were as tall as wilt chamberlain.
我希望自己和威尔特张伯伦一样高。

3. More than 1,000 people are now known to have died in the disaster.

more than 多于
例句：We have more than a car!
我们可不止有辆车！

4. The police said they were still looking for the owner of the house where the babies were found called Madam One Thousand.

look for 寻找
例句：How do you look for memories?
你们怎么寻找记忆？

5. According to an initial police report, Michelle Knight, who was abducted in 2002, said she had suffered at least five miscarriages in captivity after her alleged abductor Ariel Castro had intentionally starved and beaten her.

according to 根据
例句：You will accomplish your aim according to my suggestions.
依照我的建议，你将会达到目的。

6. The authorities in the American state of Texas have arrested a paramedic who helped in the response to last month’s deadly fertiliser explosion in the town of West.

response to 对…的反应
例句：Public response to the discounting appeared mixed.
公众对这次价格战的反应褒贬不一。