VOA慢速英语:Research Shows Thinning Snow Layers in the Rocky Mountains over Hundreds of Years

短语讲解：

1. Those creatures not killed by the explosion soon died from extreme heat in the air.

die from死于
例句：In a severe winter, wild animals can die from lack of food.
在寒冷的冬天, 野兽可能因为缺乏食物而饿死。

2. Dinosaurs did not slowly die out millions of years ago.

die out绝迹, 消失
例句：That style of music died out ten years ago.
那种风格的音乐10年前就消失了。

3. They were killed within a very short period of time when the violent explosion took place.

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。

4. Millions of people depend on the snowpack in North America’s Rocky Mountains for water.

depend on依赖, 依靠
例句：All living things depend on the sun for their growth.
万物靠太阳生长。

5. He notes that during warmer weather, the northern Rocky Mountains usually receive rain instead of snow.

instead of (用…)代替…, (是…)而不是…, (用…)而不用…
例句：We went to the Biology class instead of attending the English lesson.
我们去上生物课而不去上英语课。

6. Attributing a proportion of those changes to human impacts has been done by well over a decade of observational and modeling studies…

attribute to把某事归因于某人〔某事〕
例句：He attributes his success to working hard.
他认为他的成功是艰苦工作的结果。

7. The research team measured tree rings to help learn about the climate over time.

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。

8. 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。

9. 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以便
例句：I will give you all the facts so that you can judge for yourself.
我会给你所有的事实以便你可以自己判断。

10. 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：Japan, for example, has two languages.
譬如说, 日本就有两种语言。