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BBC在线收听下载:特朗普政府加速清理非法移民

2017-02-23来源:BBC

短语讲解:

1. Undocumented immigrants with a criminal record will be targeted first along with those deemed a risk to US security or who have abused the benefit system, but hundreds of thousands of people who arrived illegally as young children will be allowed to stay.

hundreds of thousands of 几十万,无数
例句:Hundreds of thousands of people packed into the mosque
几十万人挤进了那座清真寺。

2. A British man who died carrying out a suicide bombing for the Islamic State group in Iraq has been identified as a former Guantanamo Bay detainee.

carry out 进行; 执行; 完成; 抬出去
例句:The Social Democrats could still carry out their threat to leave the government
社会民主党人仍有可能将其退出政府的威胁付诸实施。

3. The Ukrainian oligarch Dmytro Firtash has been arrested in Vienna at the request of Spain after an appeals court ruled that he could be extradited to the US to face bribery charges.

at the request of 应…之请求,鉴于…之请求
例句:The evacuation is being organised at the request of the United Nations Secretary General.
根据联合国秘书长的要求,正在组织撤退。

4. It's warning that millions of people in the country are close to starvation.

close to 离…近; 与…关系密切
例句:We have had meaningful negotiations and I believe we are very close to a deal
我们已进行了有益的磋商,我相信我们很快能成交。