VOA慢速英语:With Loan Guarantees, Obama Looks to Nuclear Energy for Jobs

1.It has been one year since President Obama signed the economic recovery bill aimed at pulling the country out of recession.

pull out of从...处取出,拉出

例句：Our Australian partner pull out of the contract.
      我们澳大利亚合伙人退了合同。

      Can you pull this nail out of my shoe?
      你能从我的鞋上拔出这个钉子吗？

2.The Southern Company plans to build the nuclear power centers with the first starting operations in twenty sixteen.

with the first starting，with经常和现在分词连在一起做状语。

1). with或without-名词/代词+形容词；

2). with或without-名词/代词+副词；

3). with或without-名词/代词+介词短语；

4). with或without-名词/代词+动词不定式；

5). with或without-名词/代词+分词。

下面分别举例：

1)She came into the room，with her nose red because of cold.（with+名词+形容词，作伴随状语）

2)With the meal over ， we all went home.（with+名词+副词，作时间状语）

3)The master was walking up and down with the ruler under his arm。（with+名词+介词短语，作伴随状语。） The teacher entered the classroom with a book in his hand.

4)He lay in the dark empty house，with not a man ，woman or child to say he was kind to me.（with+名词+不定式，作伴随状语）

He could not finish it .... without me to help him.（without+代词 +不定式，作条件状语）

5)She fell asleep with the light burning.（with+名词+现在分词 ，作伴随状语）

6)Without anything left in the cupboard， she went out to get something to eat.（without+代词+过去分词，作为原因状语）

3.It is a plant that will create thousands of construction jobs in the next few years, and some eight hundred permanent jobs -- well paying permanent jobs -- .

some有时可用于数字前，表示“大约”，此时的some为副词。如：

That was some twenty years ago. 那大约是20年前。

I waited some ten minutes. 我等了10来分钟。

There were some thirty people there. 那里大约有30人。

in the years to come即将到来的，to come是动词不定式做后置定语。

4.He also warned that the United States is falling behind in developing nuclear energy.

fall behind落后; 下降; 退后

例句：He fell behind when we were climbing the mountain.
      我们爬山时, 他掉队了。

      Production has fallen behind in the last few months.
      最近几个月生产下降了。

5.There are fifty-six nuclear reactors under construction in the world: twenty-one in China alone, six in South Korea and five in India.

alone仅仅

only, single, sole, unique, alone这些形容词均可表示“唯一的”之意。

only: 普通用词，常可与sole换用，但侧重仅限于指定的人或物，而不需要更多。
single: 语气较强，强调仅此一个，再无第二个。
sole: 语气强于only，指仅有一个或一群，只考虑这一个或这一群。
unique: 非正式用词，侧重在一类中唯一无可匹敌、无与伦比的特征。
alone: 着重专指某人或某物，而不是别的。