美国护士工会挑战华尔街

短语讲解：

1. The nurses came from across the United States to Wall Street to lead a national organized labor movement against what they consider the inequities of Wall Street traders and banks.

come from来自某处
例句：They came from all parts of the country.
他们来自全国各地。

2.  They are advocating a new fee on financial transactions that they say should be used for health care, jobs, national infrastructure and education.

be used for用来做…
例句：Wood is used for making paper.
木材用于造纸。

3. National Nurses United Executive Director Rose Ann DeMoro says such a tax could raise $350 billion - money, she says, belongs to the people.

belong to属于
例句：Victory belongs to the most persevering.
胜利属于最有毅力的人。

4. Americans are tired of paying taxes while Wall Street gets billions and billions and billions of dollars.

be tired of 厌烦，对…厌倦
例句：He is tired of doing the same work every day
他厌烦每天做同样的工作。

5. They have been making billions and trillions of profit and not given anything back to our communities

give back归还; 恢复
例句：The gold ring should be given back to the owner.
这枚金戒指应该还给失主。

6. Diane Brady, senior editor of the magazine Bloomberg-Businessweek, has written about the nurses' movement.

write about写…的事; 写到…; 把(某事)作为写作的主题
例句：In the book he wrote about the matter.
在这本书里, 他写到了这件事。

7. "The reason the nurses are out there at the forefront is, number one, they have been very active since the whole health care debate has come up, but also a lot of other unions have been discredited," Brady explained.

come up 发生
例句：I expect something to come up soon.
我预料很快就要出事的。

8. If we tried to do it nationally, your biggest, greatest fear, not only would firms try to game the system, but even worse, they would try to move those transactions and with it some of those jobs abroad and so you would end up losing the tax revenues you do get from Wall Street, you would lose even more regulatory control because the same transactions would take place just in other countries with even weaker regulations.

try to设法
例句：He has been trying to solve the problem.
他一直在设法解决这一问题。
end up (以…)结束; 最终成为〔变得〕
例句：They all ended up puzzled.
最终他们都感到迷惑不解。
take place发生，进行
例句：The threatening strike did not take place after all.
可能来临的罢工终究没有发生。

9. The rest of the country looks at Wall Street as having helped to create the financial crisis in the United States, while people on Wall Street view this as, "It was someone who had my job four years ago and it is not my problem."

look at评判; 审视
例句：The difficulty can now be looked at in a different light.
现在可以用不同的角度来看这个困难。

10. And he believes there will be rising popular anger as long as the disconnect is there.

as long as只要, 如果
例句：I'll never forget that as long as I am living.
这事我至死也不会忘记。