VOA慢速英语:IN THE NEWS

1.It was only later that he began to employ terrorist-type techniques, not only in North Africa and the Middle East, but eventually throughout the world.

it强调

一、it强调句型的构成：
　　It+be+被强调部分+that(强调部分指人做主语时时用who，指人做宾语时用whom)+句子的其他部分。
　　例如：
　　Mary met an old beggar in the street yesterday.
　　It was Mary who/that met an old beggar in the street yesterday.
　　(强调主语)
　　It was an old beggar whom/that Mary met in the street yesterday.(强调宾语)
　　It was yesterday that Mary met an old beggar in the street.(强调时间状语)
　　It was in the street that Mary met an old beggar yesterday.(强调地点状语)
　　注意：it强调句型不能强调句子的谓语。

二、not…until结构强调句型的构成：
　　It+be+not+until部分+that+句子的其他部分。
　　例如：
　　He didn''t go to bed until his father came back..
　　变为强调句型为：
　　It was not until his father came back that he went to bed.注意原句中的didn''t go部分中的not提前后，剩下did go变为went.
　　本文开头提到的两个句子都是not..until结构用于强调句型。那么把这两句话变回正常的语序则为：
　　1)…but he didn''t make his most important discovery until after the war.
　　2)The importance of Fleming''s discovery was not fully recognized until World War II.

2.Author Bruce St John points to two events from that time.

point to表明

例句：All the signs at the moment point to an early resumption of the fighting between the two countries.
      眼下的一切迹象都表明这两个国家将很快重新开战。

3.And it was particularly the La Belle discotheque incident that led the Reagan administration to take a decision to punish the Gadhafi regime and put it on notice that we no longer tolerate that kind of activity.

no longer不再, 已不, 不复, 再也不

例句：He was long a famous musician, but he plays no longer.
      他成为有名的音乐家已很久了, 但他现在不演奏了。

      The city's water supply is no longer adequate for its need.
      这个城市的供水已不敷需求。

4.But Scotland released him in two thousand nine, saying he was dying of prostate cancer.

die of死于(疾病、过度悲伤等)

例句：People are dying of cancer more and more often.
      死于癌症的人越来越多了。

      My grandmother died of grief soon after her husband's death.
      祖父去世不久, 祖母就因悲伤过度而死了。