slow down(使)生产缓慢, (使)变得迟钝
例句:Business slows down in summer.
夏季生意清淡。
The increase of productions has now slowed down.
现在产品的增长速度已经慢了下来。
5.The international oil company BP is to link up with Rosneft, the Russian state-run energy giant.
link up with(使)与…衔接
例句:We linked up with them at the gate of the zoo.
我们在动物园门口与他们会合。
There the irrigation canal links up with the reservoir.
这条灌溉渠在那里与水库连接起来。
1.Countries across the region have also been suffering from the spiralling food prices and tough economic conditions that were the immediate spark for events in Tunisia.
参考翻译:
该地区的许多国家也遭遇粮食价格高涨和艰难的政治形势,这两点正是突尼斯抗议活动的导火索。
结构分析:
这句话的主干是:前半部分。that引导定语从句,修饰spiralling food prices and tough economic conditions。
2.Officials say around 100 soldiers, marines and police had surrounded a house in Xalapa in the eastern state of Veracruz which, it was thought, was being used as a safe house by a gang.
参考翻译:
官员表示,大约100名士兵,海军和警察包围了东部Veracruz州一座房屋,据信这里是犯罪团伙的窝点。