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VOA慢速英语:New US Law Cuts Out Private Lenders for Student Loans

2010-04-15来源:和谐英语
1.Now, as of July first, all new loans will go though the direct loan program only.

as of从…时候起

例句:As of tomorrow, I am responsible for this group.
      从明天开始,我将对这个团体负责。

2.The plan is to use more than half the savings to provide more federal Pell Grants to needy students.

不定式做表语

(一)一种情况为主语是不定式(表示条件),表语也是不定式(表示结果)

To see is to believe/ To work means to earn a living.

(二)另一种情况主语是以aim, duty, hope, idea, happiness, job, plan, problem, purpose, thing, wish等为中心的名词,或以what引导的名词性从句,不定式表语对主语起补充说明作用

His wish is to buy a luxurious car in the near future. / The boss's plan is to start building the skycraper immediately. / What I want to say is to get rid of the plan forever.

3.Everybody in higher education benefits from almost all of this bill.

benefit from通过…获益

例句:He thought he would benefit from going to school.
      他认为上学对他有好处。
 
4.The new law will reduce the most that borrowers must repay each year from fifteen percent of their income to ten percent.

这个句子的基本结构是:reduce from to。

that borrowers must repay each year是定语从句,修饰the most。