VOA慢速英语:Training Fishermen to Become Fish Farmers

短语讲解：

1. These circular pens are fifty meters wide and covered with netting to keep out seabirds.

cover with用…遮盖住, 用…填满
例句：The field is covered with snow.
田野一片积雪。
keep out (使)留在外面
They shut the door and meant to keep us out.
他们关上门, 存心不让我们进去。

2. He served in the Navy and worked as a commercial fisherman.

work as任…职, 当…
例句：It must be a hard life, working as a nurse in a backward country.
在落后的国家当一名护士, 生活必定是艰苦的。

3. Even if the wild stocks came back to their fullest capacity, they still wouldn't be able to feed the world.

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。

4. I look into the future, I can't see my kids set up in what I'm doing right now as far as, you know, lobstering, urchining.

look into在...里查资料;深入地检查,研究;调查
例句：John looked into the chronicles of the Middle Ages last week.
约翰在上周浏览了中世纪的编年史。
set up建立,创立
例句：A new government was set up after the war.
新政府于战后成立。

5. Mr. Belle says the Cod Academy is based on programs to retrain displaced herring and tuna fishermen in Norway and Japan.

base on使建立在…基础上,立足
例句：We must base ourselves on the interests of the people.
我们一定要从人民的利益出发。

6. The growing conditions in Maine are very good for cod, and it's kind of a natural choice for us as a state.

be good for对…有益,能担当
例句：Honey is good for you.
蜂蜜对你身体有益。