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VOA慢速英语:Obama: US Will Act Against Russia for Email Hacking

2016-12-17来源:VOA

短语讲解:

1. President Barack Obama says the United States will take action against Russia for carrying out cyberattacks during the U.S. election.

carry out 进行; 执行; 完成; 抬出去
例句:The Social Democrats could still carry out their threat to leave the government
社会民主党人仍有可能将其退出政府的威胁付诸实施。

2. “We did not see further tampering of the election process,” he said. But Obama noted that, at that time, the leaks were already public and could no longer be stopped.

no longer 不再,已不
例句:After about three months, I was no longer addicted to nicotine.
大约3个月后,我就不再对尼古丁上瘾了。

3. It said the stolen information was intended to interfere with the U.S. election process.

interfere with 干预; 阻挠
例句:It will seriously interfere with the progress of the work.
它将严重干扰工作的进展。

4. “So how we approach an appropriate response that increases costs for them for behavior like this in the future - but does not create problems for us - is something that’s worth taking the time to think through and figure out.”

figure out 想出; 解决; 计算出; 弄明白
例句:It took them about one month to figure out how to start the equipment
他们花了大约1个月的时间才搞清楚如何启动设备。