VOA常速英语:Tabloid to Close as British Hacking Scandal Widens

短语讲解：

1. David Wooding, political editor at The News of the World, said, "Very said, very sad, it's going to be emotional for us all this weekend."

be going to要,会,将要
例句：We are going to Hawaii.
我们要去夏威夷。

2. The phone-hacking allegations are nothing new. Two News of the World journalists were convicted in 2009. But the newspaper’s claim that they were isolated cases appears to be falling apart.

fall apart结果失败, 关系结束
例句：His promising career began to fall apart. 
他那本来前程似锦的生涯开始崩溃了。

3. Police say it appears that relatives of those killed in the 2005 London bombing victims, and the parents of dead soldiers killed in Iraq and Afghanistan also are on the list of possible victims.

on the list of在…名单上
例句：It was one of the best-sellers on the list of the New York Times.
这本书被纽约时报列为最畅销书之一。

4. Coulson was arrested Friday over fresh allegations he authorized cash payments of around $160,000 to police in return for stories.

in return for作为…的报答
例句：Police offer leniency to criminals in return for information.
警方给罪犯宽大处理以换取情报。

5. But the second chance didn't work out and he had to resign all over again.

work out 产生结果; 发展
例句：The plan worked out badly.
计划进行不顺利。
all over again (从头)再一次
例句：I'll have to write it all over again.
我得从头再写一遍。

6. The decision to hire him was mine, and mine alone, and I take full responsibility for it.

take full responsibility负全责
例句：take full responsibility for breaking the window.
我对打碎玻璃窗负全部责任。

7. Critics say the fact that the investigation did not uncover their true extent shows either corruption or incompetence.

either or不是...就是..., ...或..., 要么...要么...
例句：Either your watches or mine is wrong.
不是你们的表不准, 就是我的表不准。

8. The big question that the Metropolitan Police now face is did they whitewash the Murdoch inquiry because they were in hock to Murdoch - or worse - still frightened of Murdoch, and if that’s proven, then that is a very worrying development.

in hock to在典当中,在坐牢,负债
例句：The company was heavily in hock to the banks
这家公司欠了银行大笔借款。

9. After 160 years, the final copy of The News of the World will roll off the presses in the early hours of Sunday morning.

roll off印出; 复印出
例句：A couple of dozen prints were rolled off in no time.
一下子就印好了几十张图片。