VOA慢速英语:Students Compete to Find Tech Solutions for World Problems

短语讲解：

1. When we realized that students really actually want to have a purpose for what they’re creating, we introduced the idea of inspiring them with the UN Millennium Development Goals and suggesting that they use those for their muse.

use for作…用
例句：We used the seal's fur for coats.
我们用海豹皮做大衣。

2. This past year we also rolled out something called the Imagine Cup Solve This library, where IGOs, NGOs and noNPRofits can submit some of the technical challenges that they would like students to consider for their solutions.

roll out滔滔不绝地讲出来; 发出洪亮的声音
例句：The speech rolled out from his lips.
他滔滔不绝地演讲。
would like愿意,意欲
I would like to renew this book.
我想续借这本书。

3. One from Thailand [was] called NewKrean, where they created a Windows Phone 7 application that allows you to broadcast your location to your social network of friends so that you can be more easily rescued.

so that结果, 以致; 以便
例句：Everyone lent a hand, so that the work was finished ahead of schedule.
每个人都帮了忙, 所以工作提前完成了。

4. One was to use Bluetooth as sort of a Twitter equivalent so that if the government shuts down the Internet, you actually can still have a massive social distribution.

shut down完全关闭，倒闭，停止运转
例句：The factory was shut down for two months as a result of the strike.
那工厂因罢工的结果而停工了两个月。

5. For example, in software design the top prize of twenty-five thousand dollars went to Team Hermes from Ireland.

for example例如, 譬如
例句：There are many sources of air pollution; exhaust fumes, for example.
空气污染有许多来源, 例如废气。

6. A team from Taiwan's National Tsing Hua University won first place in the embedded development category.

win first place赢得第一名; 夺冠
例句：He failed to win the first place in the competition.
他在竞争中失去了夺冠的机会。

7. Next year’s awards ceremony will take place in Australia. Registration for Imagine Cup twenty-twelve opened Friday.

take place发生; 举行
例句：The evening party will take place on New Year's Eve.
晚会将在除夕那天举行