VOA慢速英语:Rebels Shoot Down Ukrainian Helicopters

短语讲解：

1. Twelve hours later, the city was largely quiet with armed separatists in control.

in control 在控制之下
例句：This helps to feel in control and not overwhelmed.
这有助于使你感到一切处于控制之中而不是挫败感。

2. And Western leaders have made clear that they will not defend Ukraine.

make clear 弄清
例句：We need to make clear, and why people violate this kind of guilt. 
我们需要弄明白，为什么人们犯这类罪。 

3. “In Kharkiv and Donetsk, in those focus group, what we heard were people saying primarily that this government does not represent us, we do not feel like our interests are being represented by this government, and that there was a lot of dissatisfaction with the direction of the country and the way it was headed.”

feel like 有…的感觉; 想要…
例句：Come over anytime you feel like it. 
你无论什么时候想来都行。 
a lot of 许多的; 诸多
例句：A lot of what's changing now is subtle.
许多变化都非常微妙。

4.  Russia took control of the Crimean peninsula shortly after the vote.

take control of 控制
例句：There must be someone who can take control of these naughty children 
应该有人能管住这些淘气的孩子