CNN news 2011-06-28 加文本

短语讲解：

1. Well, today, Boston's most notorious gangster and his longtime girlfriend are in jail after 16 years on the run.

on the run奔逃, 逃跑
例句：The criminal on the run has firearms with him.
在逃的罪犯身上带着武器。

2. It was a very unusual strategy that actually led to nabbing him, right?

lead to导致, 引起
例句：Smoking can lead to lung cancer.
抽烟可能导致肺癌。

3. FBI agents say he saw it, and then he called in, and he led them to the pair last night.

call in叫(某人)进来; 来访
例句：Call in this evening if possible.
可能的话今晚来一趟。

4. They tried to find him but he traveled.He'd use disguises and he'd gone all around the world eluding them so finally they went after his girlfriend and they aired these PSAs which had specific information about her.

go after追逐, 追求
例句：The dogs went after the wounded deer.
猎狗追捕受伤的鹿。

5. Now the FBI has actually been criticized for overlooking a lot of his heinous crimes for information，in response for getting information from him on other gangsters, right?

criticize for因…指责(某人)
例句：She's always criticizing her husband for being sloppy.
她总是指责她的丈夫做事马虎。

6. He's legendary in the Boston area and there had been widespread reports that the FBI had used him as an informant and perhaps they had cozied up to him too much, allowing him to escape, that he'd gotten word of，that he was about to be arrested.

get word获得消息,听说,得知
例句：I just get word that your appointment with our manager will have to be put off . 
我刚得知，您与我们经理的约会不得不推迟了。 

7. You don't actually agree with these new policies.

agree with与某人〔观点〕一致, 同意〔赞同〕某人的意见
例句：They might not agree with his opinions.
他们或许会不同意他的意见。

8. Well, whenever you carve out wholesale exceptions to the security rules, terrorists, hijackers, et cetera people who want to see us harm ，will exploit the wholesale carve-outs of the security rule.

carve out赢得，获得
例句：She carved out a name for herself in the engineering business.
她在工程业中树立了声誉。

9. And so, what would be a better policy is to train the screeners to use better discretion to figure out what is the threat and what isn't and to hone in more particularly instead of carving out these wholesale exceptions.

figure out弄明白，理解; 想出
例句：I can't figure out what he was hinting at.
我想不出他在暗示什么。
instead of (用…)代替…, (是…)而不是…
例句：We shall have tea in the garden instead of in the house.
我们将在花园里用茶, 而不在室内用。

10. And as a former prosecutor, I can tell you, I had worked on cases or know of cases where children as young as 6 or 7 in the United States were used unwittingly to carry out plots of crimes.

carry out贯彻，执行；实现
例句：He carried out the plan in very detail.
他一丝不苟地执行那项计划。

11. My parents as young as 3 were taught how to go through pat-downs and back then, the airlines were doing it, and they were far worse than the TSA and we were often targeted because of my work.

go through完成, 做完
例句：Let's go through the exercises.
咱们把这些练习做完。

12. And I think the parents owe a responsibility to the children so they can travel the world without feeling insecure or hassled.

owe to把…归功于
例句：He owes his good health to plenty of exercise and a regular life.
他把他身体健康归功于运动和有规律的生活。

13. For 17 hours he held off police in Ogden, Utah, all the while he updated his status on Facebook.

hold off抵抗; 抗拒
例句：For several days, we held off the attacks of a great number of enemy soldiers.
几天来我们击退了大批敌人的多次进攻。

14. Space history coming to an end next month and this is the shuttle crew that will take us on the final launch.

come to an end 结束,终止
例句：All good things must come to an end.
天下无不散之筵席。