BBC在线收听下载:美国档案馆公布“水门事件”时期录音

短语讲解：

1. The lawyer of the American soldier Bradley Manning has asked President Obama to pardon his client who’s been sentenced to 35 years in prison after leaking hundreds of thousands of secret documents to the whistleblowing website Wikileaks.

be sentenced to 被判处……
例句：He may be sentenced to hundreds of hours of community service to make up for his wrongdoing.
他可能被罚做几百个小时的社区服务以弥补过错。

2. The time for our president to focus on protecting whistleblowers instead of punishing them is now.

instead of （用…）代替…， （是…）而不是…
例句：Maybe instead of defending her.
也许不要站在她那一边。

3. No one has said they carried out the attack.

carry out 执行；进行
例句：They should also carry out some fundamental reforms.
这些政府也应该执行一些基础性的改革。

4. They were recorded over three months in 1973 and covered the culmination of the Watergate’s scandal that led to Nixon’s resignation.

lead to 导致
例句：That can lead to serious consequences.
这会导致严重的后果。

5. At one point Nixon can be heard describing the Chinese as the ablest people in the world.

at one point 一度；在某一刻
例句：At one point china had over 800 of them.
中国的啤酒厂曾一度突破800家。