和谐英语

VOA慢速英语:Questions for Britain After the Riots

2011-08-13来源:VOA

短语讲解:

1. Officials charged hundreds of people with disorder, violence and stealing from looted stores.

charge with指控…犯有罪
例句:They charged him with negligence of duty.
他们指责他玩忽职守。
steal from从…偷窃
例句:He stole a bag from the room.
他从这屋里偷了一个皮包。

2. Police said a sixty-eight-year-old man became the fifth person to die as a result of the violence. He was attacked during the riots.

as a result of由于…的结果
例句:He was injured as a result of boiler explosion.
他因锅炉爆炸而受伤。

3. Rioters burned buildings and cars, broke into hundreds of stores and fought with police.

break into闯入, 强行进入, 破门而入
例句:We had to break into the house as we had lost the key.
因为我们弄丢了钥匙, 所以不得不破门而入。

4. Mr. Cameron returned early from a vacation to deal with the unrest.

deal with应付, 处理; 对待
例句:He must deal with many difficulties.
他必须应付许多困难。


5. He said he was considering interfering with electronic devices and websites that rioters have used to organize their activities.

interfere with干预, 阻挠, 妨碍, 阻止; 擅自使用, 摆弄
例句:The noise interferes with my work.
这噪音妨碍我的工作。

6. So we are working with the police, the intelligence services and industry to look at whether it would be right to stop people from communicating via these websites and services when we know they are plotting violence, disorder and criminality.

stop from阻止某事发生
例句:She could scarcely stop herself from crying aloud.
她几乎哭出声来。

7. Mr. Speaker, we will not put up with this in our country.

put up with忍受, 容忍
例句:I can't put up with her another day—she never stops complaining.
她整天抱怨, 我一天也不能忍受了。

8. In Birmingham, three Pakistani men were killed Wednesday when a car struck them as they tried to protect businesses in their community. Hours later, Tariq Jahan, the father of twenty-one-year-old victim Haroon Jahan, appealed for calm.

appeal for呼吁
例句:He appealed for his parents' forgiveness.
他恳求他的双亲宽恕他。

9. Many people blamed the unrest on high unemployment, slow economic recovery and cuts to public services by the new British government.

blame on把责任推给…
例句:They blamed the failure on John.
他们把失败的责任推给约翰。

10. But she says she understands and shares the anger of many of her young neighbors over a lack of jobs and cuts in youth services.

cut in干预
例句:I think I ought to cut in on what they are doing.
我想我应该对他们所做的事情进行干预。