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短语讲解：

1. The general who seized power in a coup in Burkino Faso said he is ready to hand over to a civilian government as proposed by regional mdediators.

hand over 交出; 交付; 交给
例句：He will hand over charge of his office tomorrow.
他将在明天移交工作。

2. The supreme court earlier rejected an appeal by his lawyers who said Basit was not able to stand on the gallows.

be able to 能够
例句：We must be able to stay impartial at all times.
我们必须经常保持公正的态度。

3. The US national security advisor Susan Rice has said Chinese cyber espionage for ecnomic gain is putting an innormal strain on US-China relations and has called for it to stop.

call for 要求; 需要
例句：Different circumstances call for different tactics.
不同的情势需要不同的策略。

4. Several officials in some of Brazil's biggest construction firms have been arrested or charged in connection with the long running scheme under which multi-million dollar bribes would pay to politicians, middle man and managers in exchange for lucrative PetrolBras contracts at a time when the company was the driving force behind Brazil's economic boom.

in exchange for 交换
例句：He gave me an apple in exchange for a cake.
他给我一个苹果，换一块蛋糕。
at a time 依次， 逐一， 每次
例句：Come on out. One lot at a time.
出来罢。一批一批来。

5. President Nicolas Maduro of Venezuela and his Columbian counterpart Juan Manuel Santos have agreed to gradully reopen the border between their two countries as they worked to end a month long dispute about contraband goods.

agree to 同意， 赞成
例句：They agree to the plan in principle.
他们原则上同意这个计划。

6. The former owner of an American peanut processing company has been sentenced to nearly 30 years imprisonment for his role in a Salmonella outbreak that killed 9 people in 2008 and 2009.

be sentenced to 被判处……
例句：It's unfair for me to be sentenced to spending my lifetime in poverty.
我一辈子要受穷这实在不公平。