VOA慢速英语:Venezuelans Protest President's Decision to Rewrite Constitution

短语讲解：

1.Others set fire to small mountains of trash.

set fire to 放火烧， 点着了…; 激起; 燃点
例句：They lit a torch and set fire to the chapel's thatch.
他们点着一支火把，放火烧了小教堂的茅草屋顶。

2.The Venezuelan constitution was last changed in 1999, under the rule of then-president Hugo Chavez.

under the rule of 在…的统治[管理]之下
例句：Athens was suffering under the rule of an oligarchy that had no concern for the people's welfare.
雅典当时饱受寡头集团的统治，他们对人民的福祉毫不关心。