饭菜价格常常被人为地抬高。
10.manipulate vt.操纵,利用,操作,应付,假造
例句:A clever politician knows how to manipulate his supporters.
机敏的政客懂得如何操纵自己的支持者。
1.The victims are believed to have supported local Sunni militias that turned against Al-Qaeda and its allies.
turn against(使)转为反对; (使)变成和…敌对
例句:Those who were once for him have turned against him.
那些原来支持他的人现在倒过来反对他了。
Nothing could make me turn against my country.
什么也不能使我背叛我的祖国。
2.South Korea has called off its rescue operation from more than 40 crew members missing from a warship that sank in mysterious circumstances last week near the disputed maritime border with North Korea.
call off取消; 停止
例句:He phoned me and called the appointment off.
他给我打电话取消了这次约会。
It was decided to call off the search when there was no hope of finding the missing child alive.
在没有希望找到那名失踪的孩子生还时, 决定停止搜寻。
3.But criticism from the leader of another church proved too much.
too much〈非正〉过分;太多
例句:It really is too much of you.
你太过分了。
1.Senior Irish Catholican Protestant clergymen have criticized the head of the worldwide Anglican communion for saying that Catholic church in Ireland had lost all credibility over the child abuse scandal.