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BBC在线收听下载:澳大利亚遭遇食品安全问题
短语讲解:
1. It's hard to imagine that there are a lot of Australians worrying every day about where the next meal is going to come from.
come from 源自; 来自某处; 出生于
例句:Ambient noise may come from any direction.
外界噪声可以来自任意方向。
2. The nation's largest food relief organization, Foodbank, says most welfare and community groups can't keep up with demand.Rachel Brown visited one of Foodbank's warehouses in Melbourne.
keep up with 紧跟; 跟上, 不落人之后
例句:They walked so fast that I could not keep up with them.
他们走得那么快,我没法跟上。
3. We are paying them a a reasonable price to actually give us the produce that would usually go into landfill or you plough back into the ground because they can't sell it to large supermarkets because of size, shape,blemishes,those kinds of things.
because of 因为,由于
例句:John's jacket got out of shape because of the heavy rain.
约翰的夹克因为大雨而变形。
4. No unfortunately not. We've also found in the survey that nationally, a number of charities are having to turn away people.
a number of 一些; 许多的
例句:We had to face up to a number of seemingly contradictory concerns.
我们不得不正视若干看起来相互矛盾的问题。
5. What we ask for is our food donors and all the generous support from the manufacturing, farmers, primary producers, is that we increase donations and call on their support for that to try and meet that gap.
ask for 请求…; 要求…; 找…
例句:He had the audacity to ask for an increase in salary.
他竟然厚着脸皮要求增加薪水。