CNN news 2009-11-24 加文本

1.Here you to the Philippines now where the government is ramping up security in the south after a gruesome, frankly shocking election-related massacre, gunmen attacked a convoy earlier this morning in Maguindanao, abducting scores of people.

ramp up提速生产，加速，加强

例句：The factory don't have that capacity to ramp up.
      这家工厂没有能力加速生产。

2.Early this morning, about 40 people in the southern Philippines, most of them women, about half of them journalists, set out to file the certificate of candidacy of……

set out to打算，着手

例句：She set out to break the world land speed record.
      她决心要打破陆上速度的世界纪录。