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短语讲解：

1. Police in the United States are searching for a white gunman, who shot dead nine people during a prayer meeting at an African-American church in the southern city of Charleston.

search for  寻找
例句：The search for peace also means the search for justice.
寻求和平也意味着寻求正义。

2. The shooting took place at one of the oldest African-American churches in the southern United States, which traces its roots back two centuries.

take place 发生
例句：Earthquakes take place far underground.
地震则发生在地球的极深处。

3. The police have said they would put all of their energies into finding the man who carried out the attack.

carry out 履行
例句：No matter what we do, we must carry out our duties.
无论干什么工作,我们都应履行自己的职责。

4. Finance ministers from the Euro Zone are meeting in Luxemburg today to try to prevent Greece from defaulting on its debt in less than two weeks and being forced out of the single currency.

prevent from 阻止， 防止
例句：In such wet weather we must prevent the seedlings from rotting.
这样的阴雨天要防止烂秧。

5. A British corporate investigator says the Chinese authorities denied him urgent medical treatment in order to extort a confession.

in order to 为了…
例句：You must go through customs in order to pass across the border.
你过边境就必须在海关办理手续。

6. He said Chinese authorities had denied him treatment for prostate problems as a way of trying to force him to confess, already now has a tumour as a result of not getting the medical attention he needed.

as a result of 结果
例句：Many facts emerged as a result of the investigation.
调查结果,许多事实暴露出来。

7. A judge said this put her eleven-month old son at risk of picking up infection.

pick up 捡起
例句：She stooped to pick up her bag from the ground.
她弯下腰把包从地上拣起来。