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非洲儿童受益于学前班

2012-02-21来源:VOA
短语讲解:
1. It’s focusing on developing these young children’s motor skills, their psychosocial abilities; their early reading abilities; their early math abilities.

focus on对(某事或做某事)予以注意; 集中于
例句:Many firms are focusing on increasing their markets overseas.
许多商行都专注于扩大国外市场。

2. Often young children between zero and 3 years old, the health systems are keeping track of them and they’re doing vaccinations and things like that.

keep track of与…失去〔保持〕联系; 了解〔忘记〕
例句:As a doctor, Brooks has to keep track of the latest developments in medicine.
作为一名医生, 布鲁克斯必须了解医学的最新发展动态。

3. And then, when they turn about 5 or 6, they enter into the school systems and the ministries of education take them over.

enter into参与
例句:We should enter into public life.
我们应当参与公共生活。
take over帮…学习
例句:He took me over my lines.
他帮我练习台词。

4. But these in-between years, they’re not being cared for by the health ministries and they’re not yet being looked after by the education ministries in many cases

care for照料, 服侍
例句:The mother cared for the sick child day and night.
母亲日夜照料着生病的孩子。
look after照顾, 照看(某人或某物)
例句:These children have been well looked after.
这些孩子们受到很好的照顾。

5. They like to interact with their peers.

interact with与…相互作用, 与…相互影响; 与…相互配合
例句:The policeman advised the criminal to interact with the police.
警察劝罪犯与警方合作。

6. Children were about 24 percent more likely to enroll in primary school.

enroll in (使)加入
例句:He has enrolled himself in advanced English.
他已报名听高级英语课。

7. If a school age child had a younger sibling participating in an early childhood program, they were more likely to be in school.

participate in参加
例句:How many people participated in the opening ceremony?
多少人参加了开业典礼?

8. It came from the American Idol TV show’s charity wing called Idol Gives Back.

come from来自,源出;产自
例句:From this area come most of our best potatoes.
我们最好的马铃薯大部分是这个地区生产的。