VOA慢速英语:Michelle Obama Calls Young Africans to Action

短语讲解：

1. You can be the generation that brings opportunity and prosperity to forgotten corners of the world and banishes hunger from this continent forever.

banish from从…驱逐出去
例句：The vagabonds were banished from the train station.
流浪乞讨者被逐出了火车站。

2. She said Africa’s young people must make sure that the rights of women are equal to the rights of men.

be equal to等于，相当于
例句：A liter is equal to 1000 milliliters.
一升等于1000毫升。

3. Crowds also gathered there because South African blacks were barred from attending political meetings in most public places.

bar from禁止(接近〔做〕…)
例句：After the member was caught cheating, he was barred from the club.
那会员行骗被抓后, 被开除会籍。

4. More than seventy young women from twenty-five countries took part.

take part参加，参与
例句：He will take part in a quiz.
他将参加一场知识竞赛。

5. But there is disagreement about what the government should be doing, if anything, to protect Americans from dishonest businesses and their own bad decisions.

protect from保护, 保卫
例句：Trees should be well protected from the cold during winter.
冬天要保护好树木以防冻坏。

6. Many of the agencies showed their websites, full of free information designed to protect consumers.

full of充满
例句：The hall was full of people.
大厅里挤满了人。

7. By the very nature of capitalism, it’s free-flowing and unregulated. The problem is of course when you have a capitalist society you’re going to have people that take advantage of it, and take advantage of people.

take advantage of欺骗;占...的便宜
例句：It never occurred to me to take advantage of him.
我决没有想到过要占他的便宜。

8. Public education is our greatest tool - arming people with knowledge about the ways in which common criminal enterprises have tried to take advantage of them.

arm with用…武装; 向…提供
例句：My lawyer is well armed with the facts.
我的律师据有充分的事实

9. But he says such training did little to keep people from losing money during the recession.

keep from阻止; 免于
例句：I don't want to keep you from your work.
我不想耽误你的工作。

10. As a result, some people feel little need to do any investigating of their own.

as a result结果, 因此
例句：There was a substantial growth of industry and foreign trade increased as a result.
由于工业的大发展, 对外贸易也发展了。

11. I think we’re lulling people into a sense of false safety and at the end of the day I think they’re becoming worse off because of it.

worse off恶化,情况更坏
例句：He has lost his job and is worse off than ever.
他失掉了差事，经济情况比以前更糟。

12. He opened the door, and the wind tore it off from the wall and blew it away.

tear off撕去，撕掉，扯掉；匆忙脱掉(衣服)
例句：The cover of the dictionary has been torn off.
词典的封面已经被撕掉了。

13. His musical future began with the surprise Christmas gift of a saxophone when he was nine.

begin with以…开始, 从…开始
例句：The teacher began his class with a question.
老师以一个问题开始他的讲课。