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美国"占领"运动转变策略

2011-10-24来源:VOA

短语讲解:

1. Participants getting classes in political activism from how to deal with police to learning tactics from recent upheavals in North Africa

deal with应付, 处理; 对待
例句:Be careful. She is very difficult to deal with.
可得当心, 她很难对付。

2. Protesters with the progressive Occupy movement, now in its second month, such as here in downtown Washington, are still holding occasional street rallies to get their messages across.

get across (使)被理解; (使)被接受
例句:He found it difficult to get his idea across to them.
他发现他难以使他们了解他的想法。

3. “We are having the conversations and we are developing what we need to develop so that we can change what needs to be changed," he said.

so that 结果, 以致
例句:Everyone lent a hand, so that the work was finished ahead of schedule.
每个人都帮了忙, 所以工作提前完成了。

4. A sidewalk people’s library has also been set up, with free books and Occupy movement newsletters and newspapers to read.

set up建立,建造, 创立, 竖立
例句:Plenty of foreign firms have set up factories here.
很多外国公司已在这里开办工厂。

5. There have also been scheduled talks on learning from recent upheavals in North Africa.

learn from向…学习; 从…获得〔吸取〕
例句:We should learn from his mistakes.
我们应该从他的错误中接受教训。

6. Abdennaceur Chamakh, a Tunisian cab driver, now celebrating new elections in his home country, says he has been impressed with the U.S. occupy movement.

impress with把…印在…上; 因…获得好印象
例句:We were most impressed with your efficiency.
你的效率给我们留下很深刻的印象。

7. The American people should not leave them alone.

leave alone不理, 不管〔惹〕, 不烦扰, 不干涉
例句:She wants to think things out quietly, so we had better leave her alone.
她要安静地考虑一下, 最好别打扰她。

8. The Occupy movement prides itself in having no leaders, and has sprung up spontaneously among a combination of friends, activists and unemployed in outdoor parks and squares in major cities across the United States.

spring up突然开始; 突然产生; 快速增加〔增长〕
例句:New towns are springing up to house the increasing population.
新的城镇正迅速建起, 以容纳不断增长的人口。