CNN news 2012-01-15 加文本

be located in坐落于..., 位于...
例句：The building is located in a business center.
该大楼位于商业中心。

2. And we`ve got the campaigns in the U.S. covered, but Fareed Zakaria is going to fill us in on some of the other spots around the world holding elections this year.

fill in使(某人)熟悉, 向(某人)提供消息等
例句：Please fill me in on your future plan.
请详细谈谈你今后的打算。

3. Fifty-nine countries will be tallying up votes, local, state or national.

tally up加一;结算,总结
例句：It is now difficult to tally up the for and against.
现在统计赞成票和反对票有困难。

4. Some of these elections and leadership changes involve nothing more than personnel shifts. Others will be occasions for fundamental debates about the future course of the country.

nothing more than仅仅, 只不过
例句：They expected nothing more than a new-type machine.
他们期望的只不过是一台新型的机器而已。

5. So for those of you who have been struck by the volatility of recent years, the roller coaster ride we`ve all been on, from boom to bust, crisis to crisis, I would say keep that seat belt strapped on, because you`re going to see a lot of churn over the next year as well.

strap on绑住
例句：The soldiers' great coats were strapped on their packs.
战士们的厚大衣扎捆在背包上。

6. Try making it down a slope while you`re holding up a camera on a stick.

hold up举起, 抬起, 拿起
例句：She was holding up an umbrella when I saw her in the street.
我在街上看到她时, 她手里撑着把伞。

7. We`re going to freeze the puns there early today instead of launching into a run of them, because sometimes these things can just be a slippery slope.

instead of (用…)代替…, (是…)而不是…, (用…)而不用…
例句：We went to the Biology class instead of attending the English lesson.
我们去上生物课而不去上英语课。