紧随战争的是多年的经济紧缩。
11.persist vt.vi.坚持, 固执
例句:On the tops of very high mountains snow persists throughout the year.
高山顶上, 积雪终年不化。
The bad weather will persist all over the country.
这种坏天气将在全国各地持续下去。
12.integrate vt.vi.(使)融入
例句:They have lived in this country for ten years, but have never really integrated.
他们已在这个国家生活了十年, 但还没有融入这个社会。
1.not a day for provocative acts which will only serve to inspire more attacks against the United States.
serve to起…作用
例句:Emergencies often serve to hurl people together.
紧急情况往往能使人们团结起来。
2.Their families say they'd been hiking and strayed across the border by mistake.
stray across误入歧途
3.The German Central Bank has announced that one of its board members at the centre of a row over comments he made about immigration and Jews is to stand down at the end of the month.
stand down离开法庭的证人席,暂时辞退,顺潮航行
例句:The president has stand down after five year in office.
总统执政五年后已经引退。
4.It urges policymakers to be careful not to choke off economic recovery by cutting back on spending too much and too soon, and it says governments should think about reintroducing stimulus measures if the slowdown persists.