CNN news 2011-10-16 加文本

短语讲解：

1. You can hear -- you can hear there’s quite a lot of shooting going on down this road.

go on发生
例句：What's going on here?
这儿发生什么事啦?

2. But now Gadhafi`s hometown is on the verge of falling.

on the verge of接近于,濒临于
例句：Some animals are on the verge of extinction.
有些动物已濒临绝种。

3. The civilians caught up in all this certainly hope so.

catch up缠住; 赶上; 很快拾起
例句：They started a few minutes ago, and we must hurry to catch up.
他们几分钟前已出发,我们必须赶紧追上。

4. Experts thought it might break up completely by the end of the week.

break up结束
例句：The party breaks up and the neighbors hurry home.
宴会就此结束, 邻居们匆匆地赶回家去。

5. A couple weeks later, they got a message out, saying they were all alive, but they had limited amounts of food and water.

get out开始被人知道; 泄漏出
例句：To his surprise the news soon got out.
使他惊奇的是, 消息很快就泄露出去了。

6. Now that`s just part of what, in my mind, has always made some common sense, and that is that if we are a nation that really believes in the equality and dignity for all people, we need to make sure that the history and the stories of all people is equally told.

common sense常识
例句：He lacks common sense.
他没有常识。