BBC在线收听下载:朝鲜向发射导弹回应安理会的制裁

短语讲解：

1. China, the North's ally and a permanent number of the Security Council voted in favor of the sanctions

in favor of 赞成[支持]
例句：I am in favor of woman's suffrage.
我赞成妇女参政。

2. Were it to do anything to push an already fragile neighbor to the brink of economic collapse, then it would lead to chaos and disaster right upon this border, a refugee crisis, serious strategic questions about what to do about the existing assets, the military assets south of that border.

lead to 导致; 把…带到; 领到
例句：Economic models often lead to the study of systems of equations.
经济模型经常导致对方程组的研究。

3. And we really really hope that the governments listen to us and hear our plead to continue searching even if it means reevaluating, restarting from the beginning.

even if 哪怕; 虽然; 即使
例句：This is true even if the problem has gone away by itself.
即使问题已经自行解决了，也真的会出现这些顾虑。

4. The wildlife monitoring network Traffic found hundreds of protected animals for sale on Facebook groups in Malaysia including sun bears, gibbons and binturongs also known as bearcats.

hundreds of 好几百，许许多多
例句：Money to the extent of hundreds of thousands was set in motion.
流通的金钱达几十万金元之多。