VOA常速英语:Tripoli: Fighting Empties the Seaside Capital

短语讲解：

1. Instead of a bustling seaside capital of 1.5 million people, we drove Thursday past kilometer and kilometer of shuttered metal storefronts.

instead of (用…)代替…, (是…)而不是…, (用…)而不用…
例句：We went to the Biology class instead of attending the English lesson.
我们去上生物课而不去上英语课。

2. We arrived to find a city stripped of people.

strip of把…搬走; 剥夺
例句：We stripped the criminal of his political right.
我们剥夺了这个罪犯的政治权利。

3. As shots rang in the distance, only an occasional car or pickup truck raced down glass-strewn streets.

in the distance在远处,在很远的那边
例句：The train hooted in the distance.
火车在很远的地方拉响汽笛。

4. Tense rebels dressed in tee-shirts, shorts and sandals manned roadblocks improvised from mattresses, even school desks.

dress in穿着…衣服
例句：We must be dressed in uniform at school.
在学校我们必须穿制服。

5. But opposition ranges from single snipers to formations of entrenched Gadhafi loyalists.

range from to从...变化到...
例句：Their ages range from 25 to 50.
他们的年龄在25岁到50岁之间。

6. We passed dozens of smashed up and burnt out cars.

smash up砸坏(某物); 使受损坏
例句：The whole shop was smashed up.
整个商店被捣毁了。
burn out烧坏,烧掉,烧尽
例句：Any electric light bulb will eventually burn out.
任何电灯泡最后总会烧坏的。

7. Rebels had laid out a new welcome mat, the Colonel Gadhafi portrait that once graced the lobby wall.

lay out陈设; 展开
例句：The goods for sale were attractively laid out.
供出售的商品都陈列了出来, 极引人注目。