VOA慢速英语:Getting Into the Guinness Book of World Records

短语讲解：

1. And we hear from another man who holds the record for holding the most records.

hold the record保持记录
例句：Arsenal hold the record for fielding the most players in an England team.
阿森纳保持了为英格兰国家队贡献最多球员的纪录。

2. Knowing "the biggest, the smallest, the fastest, the most and the least," it says, helps us understand our position in the world and how we fit in.

fit in有地方容纳, 适合，适应, 合得来
例句：Most people who come from other countries seem to fit in with the way of life here.
大多数从外国来的人似乎适应这里的生活方式。

3. He tells us that in writing the book he discovered the simple reason why many people want to set a world record.

set a world record创造世界纪录
例句：She set a new world record for the high jump
她创下跳高的新世界纪录。

4. They don’t put most of the records in the book, and that really turns out to be the biggest surprise of all for people who actually set the records.

turn out to be结果是, 原来是, 证明是
例句：Software may turn out to be a bigger hurdle.
软件可能成为更大的障碍。

5. For instance, they do not recognize perfect school attendance.

for instance例如, 比如
例句：Skin cancer, for instance, is often curable.
例如皮肤癌往往是可以治愈的。

6. Over the years, the Guinness book has had a number of competitors.

a number of一些
例句：A large number of people were present.
很多人出席了。

7. He believes that, at any given time, each record has a few hundred people either thinking about or actively trying to break it.

think about考虑
例句：I should like to think about your suggestion before I give a definite reply.
我想先考虑一下你的建议, 然后给你一个明确的答复。

8. In all, he has set or broken more than three hundred forty records.

in all总共, 合计;总之
例句：There are fifteen books on the first shelf, twenty-one on the second, that makes thirty-six in all.
书架的第一层有15本书, 第二层有21本, 总共是36本。

9. Those fifty, many of them are physically challenging and do take sometimes up to, you know, three or four months of training.

take up占去，占用
例句：I won't take up much of your time.
我不会占用你很多时间。

10. You know, when you’re really having a good meditation you feel that you are separate from your body, that whatever is happening to that body is not happening to me -- I'm the soul and I transcend that body.

separate from分开
例句：No child should ever be separated from his mother by force.
绝不能强行使任何一个孩子与母亲分开。