VOA慢速英语:An Archive of English, Spoken in Many Different Accents

短语讲解：

1. Professor Weinberger says students in his beginning phonetics class are mostly interested in teaching English as a second language.

be interested in对…感兴趣
例句：He is interested in sports.
他对运动感兴趣。

2. So we sent the students out to record non-native speakers, and we compared those speakers to each other and to native speakers of English.

send out散布; 派遣
例句：They were sent out as our representatives.
他们是作为我们的代表被派出去的。
compare to与…相比
The writer was compared to Shakespeare.
把这个作家与莎士比亚进行了比较。

3. For example, here is a thirty-two-year-old Iraqi man:

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。

4. The biggest plus, of course, is that it is so uniform that you can immediately compare a Kiswahili speaker to a native English speaker.

so that如此...以至于
例句：She is so young that she can’t look after herself.
她太小了，不能照顾自己。

5. Professor Weinberger would like more people to send in their own samples of the sixty-nine-word paragraph.

would like想要
例句：I would like to renew this book.
我想续借这本书。

6. Right now we only have samples from about three hundred fifty languages, including English.

right now此刻, 目前
例句：I have no time right now to discuss your problems.
此刻我没有时间讨论你的问题。