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短语讲解：

1. She demanded immediate and comprehensive clarification from the president and said that if her suspicion turned out to be true then it would represent a grave breach of trust and be totally unacceptable.

turn out 制造；关灯；结果是
例句：None of those assertions turn out to be accurate.
这些断言没有哪一个证明是准确的。

2. All the Greenpeace activists have been denied bail so far and have been in detention for five weeks at first on that ship and then in the jail in the Arctic port of Murmansk.

so far 到目前为止；迄今为止
例句：Three have been released so far.
迄今三人已被释放。

3. Mr. Laarayedh’s comments follow a march by several thousand activists in the capital Tunis calling for his government to step down.

step down 退休，辞职
例句：The governor has rejected all calls to step down.
这位州长拒绝了所有要求他下台的呼声。

4. The President of Venezuela Nicolas Maduro says he will make the 8th of December a holiday in honor of the late Hugo Chavez.

in honor of 为了向…表示敬意
例句：So, in honor of v-day, newsfeed invites you to take the afternoon off.
因此，为了纪念情人节，新闻商邀请您放下午的工作安排。