BBC在线收听下载:哥伦比亚同性婚姻合法化进程再进一步

短语讲解：

1. A former head of the Italian defense group Finmeccanica Giuseppe Orsi has been sentenced to four years and six months in prison for false accounting in corruption.
 
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。

2. Constitutional court has given its general sanction to same-sex marriage though details are still to be worked out.

work out 解决; 作出; 锻炼
例句：Can you work out on the map where we are now?
你能在地图上找到我们现在所在的位置吗?

3. He spent just a couple of minutes to dismiss Winnie Madikizela-Mandela's application with costs.
 
a couple of 两个， 几个
例句：His money cascaded away in a couple of years.
他的钱在三两年内便滚滚流失了。

4. The anti-aprtheid struggle hero had argued that under customary law, the house in Qunu village where the former president spent much of his time until his death in 2013 belonged to her.

belong to 属于
例句：I belong to no party.
我不属于任何派别。

5. The founder told the BBC it was high time for a Nigerian publisher to set up in London.

set up 建立; 准备; 安排
例句：They set up many branches throughout the country.
他们在全国建立好多分公司。

6. Cassava Republic will publish fiction and non-fiction as well as children's books and romance novels written by Africans and largely set on the continent.

as well as 也，又
例句：Boys as well as girls are taught cookery in school these days.
现在学校里男女学生都学烹饪。