CNN news 2012-03-01 加文本

make sense of搞清…的意思
例句：Can you make sense of this word?
这个词你能理解吗?

2. But two states are taking over the political spotlight today, and those two states are Arizona and Michigan.

take over接管; 接替
例句：The strikers took over the factories.
罢工工人接管了工厂。

3. One issue that comes up a lot during presidential campaigns is education.

come up开始;发生
例句：I'll let him know if anything comes up.
如有什么事,我会告诉他的。

4. Has to do with how many Americans have a college degree.

do with与…有关
例句：I'm interested in anything to do with music.
凡与音乐有关的事我都感兴趣。

5. According to another census report, workers with a bachelor`s degree earned around $20,000 more on average than workers with a high school diploma.

on average平均起来
例句：On average we receive five letters each day.
我们平均每天收到五封信。

6. When those countries fought against each other in the Korean War, the United States was on the side of the South.

fight against与…作斗争〔争吵〕; 反对…
例句：We will have to fight against difficulties.
我们将不得不同困难作斗争。

7. You`ve heard us talk about sanctions, penalties put on Iran by the U.S. and the United Nations.

put on强使承担
例句：Why are you trying to put the blame on me?
你为什么总想把责任推到我身上呢?

8. They do believe -- and there`s evidence to suggest that, in the past, they may have conducted some research which would be relevant to making a nuclear bomb.

be relevant to与...有关
例句：These materials are relevant to the case.
这些材料与这案件有关。

9. For instance, it wants access, the U.N. does, to search suspicious nuclear sites that it suspects may have been the location where nuclear weapons testing may have been carried out or development for those weapons may have been carried out.

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。

10. And so there are lots of areas, lots of gaps in Iran`s story, that it has yet to fill out.

fill out充实; 增补
例句：The manuscript might be usable if the author could fill it out a little.
如果作者稍加充实, 原稿就有用。