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短语讲解：

1. The international plan for a political solution calls for a transitional government to run the country until free elections can be held.

call for 需要; 要求
例句：Chinese companies call for fairer treatment from foreigners.
中国公司要求更公平的对待外国人。

2. Judging by the contrasting accounts of its contents, a telephone conversation between the US Secretary of State John Kerry and his Russian counterpart Sergei Lavrov simply led to both sides blaming the other.

lead to 领到; （道路）通向; 导致;
例句：A little exaggeration can lead to serious consequences.
一丝一毫的夸大都可能导致严重的后果。

3. The United Nations has given details of what it says were targeted killings by rebels in South Sudan of hundreds of civilians based on their ethnicity.

base on 使建立在…基础上
例句：Service-oriented government should base on a scientific and rational administrative system.
服务型政府必须建立在科学合理的行政管理体制的基础上。

4. The UN says the massacres took place when an anti-government forces seized the oil town of Bentiu last week, 200 people sheltering in a mosque are said to have been killed as well as many more in a hospital and a church.

as well as 也，又
例句：You could talk to him as well as you could talk to many human beings.
你可以和他说话,就像和其他人说话一样.

5. Both the presidents of Colombia and Mexico are expected to attend.

be expected to 被期待做某事; 有望做某事; 期许
例句：That could hardly be expected to last.
这很难预计将持续多久。

6. Gabriel Garcia Marquez first moved to Mexico in 1961 where he wrote his seminal novel "One hundred years of solitude". Residents in his home town in Colombia will hold a symbolic burial ceremony at the same time.

at the same time 同时;  一起
例句：At the same time, infrastructure investment is growing.
与此同时，基础设施的投资也在增加。