BBC news 2009-10-08 加文本

carry on继续开展,坚持,举止失常

例句：We must try to carry on as if nothing had happened.
      我们必须继续下去, 只当作什么都没有发生过。

2.Opposition parties have called on him to step down.

step down走下,逐步减低,辞职,下台

例句：He is entertaining no thoughts of stepping down.
      他现时没有下台的想法。

3.He also said Kenya should speed up reform.

speed up(使)加速

例句：We are speeding up the mechanization of our agriculture.
       我们正在加快农业机械化的步伐。
 
4.As a consequence, Mr. Annan said healing and reconciliation could suffer.

as a consequence由于…,结果

例句：As a consequence, many researchers routinely violate its requirements.
      因此，许多研究人员经常违反规定。

5.Mr. Obama is weighing up the bleak conclusions of his top general in the field, Stanley McChrystal as well as the general’s request for additional resources.

weigh up称量,掂量,衡量,估量,评价

例句：Hunter's a strange person, I can't quite weigh him up.
      亨特是个怪人，我捉摸不透他。