BBC在线收听下载:报道披露韩国渡轮沉没前船员与卫队对话

短语讲解：

1. According to the transcript, officials urged the crews three times to ensure the passengers were wearing life jackets, while the crew member asked repeatedly if rescue vessels were available if an evacuation was ordered.

according to 根据，按照
例句：According to the time-honored scale and tonality.
按照那古老的程度和音调。

2. More than 240 people are still missing, many of them teenagers from the town of Anson.

more than 超过; 在…次以上
例句：America and britain have more than 12.
美国和英国甚至多余多于12个。

3. For the Russians and Ukrainians, Easter night is one of the holiest times in the calendar to set up such provocations to kill people, it's an outrage.

set up 建立; 准备
例句：The students also set up debating teams.
学生们还成立了辩论队。

4. According to one Sudanese account as many as eight people may have been abducted.

as many as 和…一样多; 不下于
例句：Here. Read as many as you like.
那着这些书。想看多少看多少。

5. Here comes a story of the hurricane, sang Bob Dylan, one of many he took up Rubin Carter's case as a symbol of race injustice in the United States.

take up 开始从事; 接受
例句：He resigned his commission to take up a civilian job. 
他辞去军职而从事平民工作.