CNN news 2011-07-21 加文本

短语讲解：

1. That is, if the government runs out of money and is unable to pay its bills.

run out of用完
例句：The soldiers ran out of ammunition and had to withdraw.
士兵们用光了弹药, 不得不撤退。

2. With a major breakthrough increasingly out of reach, lawmakers are showing more interest in a fallback plan.

out of reach手够不着, 达不到
例句：It's out of the reach of my imagination.
这出乎我的想象。

3. The compromise measure would allow the President to raise the debt ceiling and avert crisis before lawmakers agree on where the spending cuts can go.

agree on对某事〔物〕有同样看法, 商定〔同意〕某事, 商定做某事
例句：They agreed on leaving there the next day.
他们一致同意第二天离开那里。

4. Well, Brianna, are we any closer to a deal than we were a week ago when we talked?

close to离…近
例句：It is close to fact.
这更接近于事实。

5. It's sort of the brainchild of the Senate Republican leader, Mitch McConnell, and he's working out some details with the Senate majority leader Harry Reid.

work out作出; 制订出
例句：The plan has already been worked out, and could be put into operation at a moment's notice.
计划已经拟好并立即可以付诸实施。

6. It would allow Congress to voice its disapproval and this is something that the president would have to do in three increments over time between now and the November 2012 election.

over time随着时间的过去,随着时间的推移
例句：Tastes in food also change over time.
人们的口味随时间而改变。

7. But first the resignation of Britain's top cop, the man in charge of Scotland Yard.

in charge of负责
例句：The cook is in charge of the kitchen helper.
这位厨师负责管理厨工。

8. Meanwhile, the former chief executive of News International, of Rupert Murdoch's newspaper group here, Rebekah Brooks, she has been taken in, arrested by the police for questioning.

take in拘留，把…带至警察局拘留起来
例句：The police took him in for attempted murder.
警方因他杀人未遂而将其拘留。

9. There was speculation that that would have meant that she wouldn't have turned up on Tuesday afternoon, London time, to be grilled by politicians.

turn up出现
例句：He didn't turn up until half an hour later.
半小时后他才出现。

10. They don't want to see clearly prejudice any possible trial that may come out of this.

come out of 由…产生,从…出来
例句：There is one great mercy that has come out of all today's misery, 
在今天的整个悲剧性的事件中，我终于得到了一大好处。