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1. Violent confrontations have again broken out on the streets of Turkey’s main city Istanbul on the fourth day of anti-government protests.

break out 爆发；突然发生，爆发
例句：Protests, although small, break out more frequently.
抗议活动虽然规模小，却更加频繁地爆发。

2. Once you get beyond the masks and the goggles and the hoodies, you do find a lot of professional people—doctors, teachers, students, educated people are out there.

a lot of 好多
例句：We have a lot of tinned drinks.
我们有好多听装饮料。

3. But what unites them all is their opposition to, first of all, Prime Minister Erdogan’s, they would see it as, you know, autocratic and arbitrary decisions about things, but there is a creeping worry about what they see as the Islamisation of society.

worry about 担忧， 烦恼；惦念；挂虑
例句：What do you haveto worry about?
你有什么好担心的？

4. We are trying to prevent the sectarian violence from dragging Syria down into a complete and total implosion, where it has broken up into enclaves and the institutions of the state have been destroyed with God knows how many additional refugees and how many innocent people killed.

prevent from 阻止， 防止
例句：The bad weather prevent from the military action.
坏天气妨碍了军事行动。

5. In the Czech capital Prague, the Charles Bridge, normally packed with tourists, has been closed as well as schools.

as well as 也，又
例句：Your mental as well as physical health in that space.
你的精神以及身体健康的空间。

6. At least 119 people died in the fire in Jilin province.

at least 至少
例句：Can we at least try?
我们至少试试看吧？

7. A new study has found that more than a third of marriages in the United States began with online dating.

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