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BBC在线收听下载:英国女首相特蕾莎·梅走马上任
短语讲解:
1. Instead of taking over in September, Mrs.May will now become Prime Minister on Wednesday evening.
instead of (用…) 代替…, (是…)而不是…
例句:A spirit lamp burns spirits instead of oil.
酒精灯里点的不是油而是酒精。
2. The Venezuelan government has said it will seize a factory belonging to the US hygiene product company Kimberly-Clark after it announced that it could no longer operate in the country.
belong to 属于
例句:I belong to no party.
我不属于任何派别。
no longer 不再,已不
例句:She no longer probed her reasons.
她不再去探究自己的理由了。
3. In a national park where they unearthed evidence that the capuchin monkeys here have lived in their own stone age for at least 700 years.
at least 至少
例句:At least, I sincerely hope so.
至少我是真诚地这样希望的。
4. The discovery dates the behavior to long before Europeans arrived in the new world.
arrive in 抵达,到达
例句:I reckon to arrive in Delhi at noon.
我估计正午抵达德里。