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短语讲解：

1. The idea is to try to make the paying financial as well as this applied the political pressure.

as well as 也，又; 既…又…; 除…之外（也）; 此外
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。 

2. Turkey's deputy prime minister has warned that the country is struggling to cope with a humanitarian disaster as Kurdish refugees from Syria flee the advance of the Islamic State militants.

cope with 应对
例句：I was amazed at her ability to cope with the difficult situation. 
她对付困境的能力使我惊讶。 

3. A jury in New York decided that Arab bank had provided material support to the Palestinian military group Hamas and must compensate victims of a number of attacks carried out in Israel and the Palestinian territories.

a number of 许多的; 一些
例句：They found a number of simple expediencies to dissolve the contract. 
他们找出了许多解除合同的简便方法。 

4. A dispute has broken out between Ecuador and the Galapagos Islands over the ownership of Lonesome George - the Galapagos Giant Tortoise who died in 2012.

break out（战争、打斗等不愉快事件）突然发生，爆发
例句：A fire break out last night.
昨天夜里发生了一起火灾。