VOA慢速英语:Nick Jonas' Lesson for Other Teen Musicians

短语讲解：

1. More than one hundred teenage musicians recently attended a summer camp in Los Angeles to learn about the music business.

summer camp夏令营
learn about获得, 学得
例句：I like reading historical stories because I can learn about the lives that people led long ago.
我喜欢看历史故事, 因为这样可以知道过去人们的生活。

2. Some of the advice they received came from the youngest member of the Jonas Brothers, eighteen-year-old Nick.

come from来自, 源自
例句：Knowledge comes from practice.
知识来自于实践。

3. Social media was incredibly important for my brothers and I at the beginning of our career and still is today.

at the beginning of在…之初
例句：At the beginning of the term, I found it difficult to study English.
在这学期初, 我觉得学英语很困难。

4. With Twitter and YouTube and Facebook, there are so many instant ways to connect with your fans.

connect with与...联系
例句：Please connect with him soon.
请立即与他联系。

5. Ben LoPiccolo worked on his skills as a music reporter.

work on致力于…
例句：He has been working on a new novel for over a year now.
近一年多来, 他一直在写一部新小说。

6. I found that I really enjoyed writing and telling people about music that I like to kind of expand their taste.

kind of稍微, 有点儿, 有几分
例句：I'm feeling kind of tired.
我感到有点累。

7. These teens hope to be part of an industry that is going through big changes.

go through经历
例句：The country has gone through too many wars.
这个国家经历了太多的战争。

8. Kristen Madsen at the Grammy Foundation points to the influence of social networking on sites like Facebook and Twitter.

point to表明; 指向，指出
例句：The hands of the clock pointed to half past eight. It was time we put our children to bed.
钟的指针指在八点半上, 我们该让孩子们上床睡觉了。

9. I would say that that’s probably the biggest theme that you can see, is watching the artists and the professionals come through and talk about, there are new ways and new roadmaps for kids to succeed in the music industry, and they have a lot more access to doing it themselves.

come through经历...仍活着,安然渡过; 显露; 接通
例句：She came through a serious illness last year.
去年她生了一场大病。
succeed in在…中获得成功
例句：At last the climbers succeeded in conquering the difficult mountain.
登山队员们终于成功地征服了这座难以攀登的山峰。

10. He told the other young musicians that his career began with a music video on YouTube.

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。

11. So a lot of artists, management labels and music directors look at more than just being a great player in order to be hired for a gig.

in order to为了
例句：We started early in order to arrive before dark.
为了在天黑前到达,我们很早就动身了。