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BBC在线收听下载:苏格兰将就是否独立举行全民公投
短语讲解:
1. So we moved in at the very opportunity time, broke into this terrorist cell, and arrested some suspects with explosive materials.
break into 打断; 闯入
例句:Don't break into their conversation.
不要打断他们的谈话。
2. As been renewed fighting around Donetsk in eastern Ukraine in spite of a recent ceasefire agreement between the government and pro-Russian separatists.
in spite of 虽然, 尽管…
例句:In spite of this, they were in a quandary.
尽管这样,他们还觉得左右为难。
3. Amid reports, the rebels were attempting to capture the airport, where a few hundred Ukrainian soldiers have been hold up since June, we drove to within a mile or two to a rebel checkpoint.
hold up 举起; 支撑
例句:There are two large wooden supports that hold up the roof.
有两根大木柱支撑着房顶。
4. For all the reasons that have been given by all the main party leaders in the UK, in the 21st century, to rip up the alliance between our countries would not be sensible politically, economically or even emotionally.
rip up 把…撕成碎片,撕毁
例句:He was going to rip up the canvas.
他打算去把画布割开。
5. Hundreds of thousands of people remain trapped by flood waters in northern India and Pakistan with an estimated 200,000 still stranded in Indian administered Kashmir alone.
hundreds of thousands of 几十万,无数
例句:Hundreds of thousands of workers were needlessly killed, maimed, or disabled each years.
每年有无数工人不必要地死亡、受伤或失去工作能力。
6. The women married two months ago and the father was a male friend who'd asked to be involved in the child's upbringing.
involve in 使参与[陷入,牵扯到
例句:They expostulate with him about the risk involve in his plan.
他们指出他的计划有风险,劝他放弃。