VOA慢速英语:A Legal Education, From Shakespeare; A Mixed-Race Couple Who Fought the Law

短语讲解：

1. We hear about a new film that tells the story of a couple who helped make interracial marriage legal in America.

hear about得悉, 听说
例句：I have never heard about such a man.
我从未听说过这样一个人。
interracial marriage异族通婚

2. And we hear about a new book that tells lawyers and law students what they can learn from Shakespeare.

learn from向…学习; 从…获得〔吸取〕
例句：A man who does not learn from others can't hope to achieve much.
一个不向别人学习的人不能指望有多大成就。

3. The other official, Lord Angelo, is a judge who takes over for Vicentio.

take over接管; 接替
例句：She took over his work after his departure.
他离开以后, 她接替了他的工作。

4. Mercy in an individual is a wonderful thing, but mercy on the part of a government actor can be a very dangerous thing.

on the part of就…而言
例句：He apologized on the part of his boss.
他代表老板道歉。

5. The debate over judges and empathy played a part in the Senate confirmation process for Sonia Sotomayor.

play a part in与…有关,对…有影响
例句：Financial markets naturally play a part in shaping monetary policy.
金融市场是形成货币政策的一个自然部分。

6. We have to recognize those feelings and put them aside.

put aside撇开
例句：I put aside all those useless.
我把没有用的东西全部放在一旁。

7. Shakespeare calls this a problem of ocular proof, the idea that we need to see evidence before we believe in it -- and that, oftentimes, when metaphysical questions of guilt or innocence are difficult for us to answer, we have a tendency to reduce them to questions that pertain to physical evidence.

pertain to属于,关于,附属,适合,相称
例句：His remark did not pertain to the question.
他的话同这个问题不相干。

8. The court must decide if the contract can be enforced even though it could result in the death of the borrower, Antonio.

result in导致,结果是
例句：The game resulted in another victory for our team.
比赛结果, 我们队又获胜了。

9. Law professor and author Kenji Yoshino says his students benefit from reading Shakespeare.

benefit from从…受益
例句：He thought he would benefit from going to school.
他认为上学对他有好处。

10. But six years later, in nineteen sixty-seven, the Supreme Court struck down the last of these laws.

strike down取消；删去
例句：The committee reached an agreement to strike down a law requirement. 
委员会达成一致取消一项法律规定。

11. I looked at it as an unbelievable challenge for a lawyer one or two years out of law school, to be getting involved in what was sure to be a major civil rights case.

involve in 使参与〔陷入, 牵扯到〕
例句：Don't involve yourself in unnecessary dispute.
不要把自己卷入无谓的争论中。

12. And, as far as I'm concerned, they in some ways upend stereotypes, because they weren’t activists.

as far as I'm concerned  我认为, 就我来说
例句：As far as I'm concerned, living in sin is a lot better than turning my coat inside out. 
对我来说，在罪过中过活要比变节好得多。