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US Official Says Lifting Sanctions on North Korea Will Take Time

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北朝鮮の話はわりとなれてきたかも。よく出て来る話題は英語も聞きやすいです。

lift:controls/laws [transitive]
to remove a rule or a law that says that something is not allowed
The government plans to lift its ban on cigar imports.

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このliftとfileは政治関連のニュースにはよく出てきます。知っている単語なのに、こういう意味は知らないみたいな。

before the United States will lift sanctions or take the North off its list of nations sponsoring terrorism

delivery：
the act of bringing goods, letters etc to a particular person or place, or the things that are brought

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意味としてはこれだとは思うけど、↓SIM訳は「重油支援の見返りに」←ちょっとぴんとこない

in return for deliveries of fuel oil

concession：[countable]
something that you allow someone to have in order to end an argument or a disagreement

in return for economic aid and diplomatic concessions

iron something out：phrasal verb
to solve or get rid of problems or difficulties, especially small ones

are still to be ironed out.

in the light of something（BE)/ in light of something(AE)：
if you do or decide something in the light of something else, you do it after considering that thing

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米語と英語で違うみたい

there will be another such resolution in light of the fact

file：[intransitive always + adverb/preposition, transitive] law
to give a document to a court or other organization so that it can be officially recorded and dealt with

the International Atomic Energy Agency last week filed a report


今日の単語は・・・in light of something 「を考慮して」

In light of this tragic event, we have cancelled the 4th of July celebrations.
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9/11後に編成された辞書だから？の例文かな。