BBC在线收听下载:世界银行行长宣布20亿美元援缅计划

短语讲解：

1. But though Damascus said women and children could leave immediately, it seems there is a caveat that other civilians, in other words men could leave only if the Syrian government had a list of their names first, it's a condition that the opposition points out could be ominous as information contained in lists could be used to detain or even torture people later.

point out 指出
例句：Nobody seems minded to point out an obvious fact.
似乎没人愿意指出一个显而易见的事实。
be used to 习惯于，适用于
例句：Mini-projects will continue to be used to mitigate short-term power shortage problems.
一些小型项目将继续用于解决短期的电力不足的问题。

2. A brain-dead woman kept alive in a hospital in the southern United States because she was pregnant has now been removed from life support.

remove from 从…中移开
例句：Crawl errorsto remove from your webmaster tools account.
从你的网站管理员工具账户中删除抓取错误。

3. The demonstrations are spreading these days demonstrations where protesters are besieging and in some cases taking over government buildings.

take over 带; 接管
例句：A younger generation will begin to take over.
年轻一代将会开始接管中国的事务。

4. So it's not exactly that the entire city is protesting, but there are significant demonstrations and the fact that they are taking place in what is President Viktor Yanukovych's base of popularity show a sign that something is happening in the east and that the protesters are taking on a new character.

take place 发生，举行
例句：Elections take place every four years.
选举四年举行一次。

5. The former intelligence agency contractor Edward Snowden has said that the United States' National Security Agency was engaged in industrial espionage as well as spying on people to prevent terrorism.

engage in 参加，从事
例句：They engage in more high-risk activities than women.
他们比女人更多地从事高风险的活动。