BBC在线收听下载:印度首都任命首位女司机

短语讲解：

1. Visiting a vast makeshift camp near the eastern city of Durban, the area where the violence initially flared up, he's struck a conciliatory tone.

flare up 突然爆发;突然大怒
例句：He has no call to flare up.
他没有必要发怒

2. He told some of the migrants, more than a thousand of them who've fled their homes in fear of their lives, that it was not the South African way to treat foreign nationals with hostility.

in fear of 怕…， 为…提心吊胆
例句：We are in fear of more rain.
我们担心再下雨。

3. There have been a number of attacks by suspected Islamic State militants in recent weeks.

a number of 许多的;一些
例句：Monkeys are transmitters of a number of dangerous diseases.
猴子是许多危险疾病的传染媒介。

4. The ship, L’Hermione, took about 17 years to build at the cost of some 30 million dollars.

at the cost of 以…为代价
例句：He bought fame at the cost of health and happiness.
他牺牲了健康和幸福换来了名誉。