正文
BBC在线收听下载:欧美领导人决定加大力度应对埃博拉
短语讲解:
1. President Obama and European leaders have agreed to do more to stand the global Ebola outbreak amid fears that the virus could spread even more quickly.
agree to 同意
例句:We cannot agree to consign the goods.
我们不同意寄售此货。
2. Earlier the US authorities confirmed that a second nurse in Texas had contracted the virus after treating a Liberian man who died from Ebola.
die from 死于(某种原因,不包括疾病、过度悲伤等)
例句:Every winter some old people die from hypothermia.
每年冬天都有些老人死于体温过低。
3. They are now trying to make contact with other passengers on the flight although their risk remains low.
make contact with 和…接触,和…通信
例句:I'm gonna make contact with the colonel.
我要跟上校联系一下。
4. The president of Guinea Alfa Conde has asked retired doctors and other health workers to come out of retirement to help fight Ebola.
come out of 由…产生,从…出来
例句:What is Bred in the Bone will never come out of the fresh.
"江山易改, 本性难移"
5. And so far nearly 800 people there have died from the disease.
so far 目前为止
例句:It is merely a hypothesis; so far.
到目前为止,这仅仅是一种假设。
6. American stocks continued their month-long fall, sending the Dow Jones Industrial Average nearly 3% lower at one point although it rallied to close 1% down.
at one point 一度; 在某一刻
例句:At one point I think she is go to refuse, but in the end she agree.
当时我以为她要拒绝, 但最后她却同意了。
7. In her first broadcast interview since her husband took office last month, Mrs. Ghani told BBC she hoped to encourage greater respect for women.
take office 任职
例句:When will the new President take office?
新总统什么时候就职。