BBC news 2014-08-24 加文本

短语讲解：

1. Tripoli's airport has been closed for more than a month because of fighting between rival armed groups that emerged from the revolution that toppled Colonel Gaddafi in 2011.

because of 因为，由于
例句：The journey was slow because of continual stops. 
由于常常停下来，所以行程很慢。 

2. United Nations officials in Iraq are warning that a massacre could take place in a town where thousands of members of the Shiite Turkmen minority are besieged by Islamic State militants.

take place 发生
例句：Earthquakes take place far underground. 
地震则发生在地球的极深处。 

3. Reports say at least 10 people were injured.

at least 至少
例句：At least, I sincerely hope so. 
至少我是真诚地这样希望的。 

4. There is nothing visible up the surface yet, if it does break through the ice, it's unlikely but there will be a high ash column.

break through 突围，突破
例句：Demonstrators tried to break through the police cordon. 
示威群众企图突破警察的封锁线. 

5. If there is a very high ash column, but when at the moment, it's going to blow it over the Europe.

blow over 停止刮，停息
例句：There are reasons why this dispute should blow over quickly.
这就是这场争端可以迅速平息的理由。

6. One of the most celebrated names in the French wine industry, Philippe de Rothschild has died at the age of 80.

at the age of 在…岁时
例句：I remember an experiment I did at the age of 11.
我记得我11岁时曾做过的一个实验。