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BBC在线收听下载:巴基斯坦示威者与安全部队反正暴力冲突
短语讲解:
1. Thousands of demonstrators led by the opposition politician Imran Khan and the cleric Tahir ul Qadri had been holding a sitting outside the office of the Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, calling for him to step down.
step down 退休,辞职
例句:He should therefore step down immediately after the elections.
因此,他应当在选举后立即辞职。
2. And up to now, not a single person of the marches is armed.
up to now 到目前为止; 至今; 迄今
例句:Wouldn't work up to now.
到现在都不肯工作。
3. Now reports we are getting is that about a hundred people are injured so far and there are reports that a number of people may have died.
a number of 许多的; 一些
例句:This suggests a number of things.
这说明了几件事。
4. But there is no doubt that the situation has really deteriorated tonight.
no doubt 很可能; 无疑地; 固然
例句:Republicans no doubt think even this is unreasonable.
共和党人无疑认为这已经很过分了。
5. The Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko says European Union leaders have agreed to prepare new sanctions against Russian over its intervention in the conflict in the east of the country.
agree to 同意, 赞成
例句:I agree to go with him.
我同意和他一起去。
6. So now the Army is backed up by Kurdish fighters as well as Shiite militias.
as well as 也,又
例句:Boys as well as girls are taught cookery in school these days.
现在学校里男女学生都学烹饪。
7. More than 20 health workers have so far lost their lives to the virus in that country, and many have now gone on strike over non-payments of allowances.
more than 多于
例句:Rob likes apples more than bananas.
罗勃对苹果比对香蕉还喜欢。