VOA慢速英语:Experts Defend Way of Life for Herders in East Africa

短语讲解：

1. But some people think this movement of livestock is bad for the environment.

be bad for对……有害
例句：Smoking is bad for our health.
吸烟对我们的健康有害。

2. They say pastoralists should settle on farms and grow their own food, especially in times of shortages.

settle on决定, 选定
例句：He settled on selling everything.
他决定卖掉所有的财产。

3. They say pastoralists make the best use of resources.

make use of使用;利用
例句：We must make good use of our time.
我们要很好利用时间。

4. It gives the area you have left time to regenerate. And by the time you come back through the loop, this area now has pasture to graze.

come back回来
例句：I'm going away and I may never come back.
我要走了, 可能永远不再回来。

5. He and other experts say pastoralism makes the most sense for dry and semi-dry lands.

make sense有道理；有意义；讲得通
例句：This sentence doesn't make any sense.
这个句子没有意义。

6. An estimated ninety percent of the meat eaten in East Africa comes from pastoralist herds.

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

7. What would happen if we developed a system where we grow fodder and pasture along the river and the animals are taken off from the range and finished nearer to the market?

take off拿走, 取下; 去掉
例句：Help me to take this handle off.
帮我把这握柄取下来。

8. He also says more efforts need to be put into raising camels.

put into使处于某种状态
例句：The regulations have been put into practice on a trial basis.
这些规定已开始试行。