VOA慢速英语:Letterboxing: A Modern-Day Treasure Hunt

短语讲解：

1. Then they hide it in a public place and offer clues and directions for other letterboxers to search for it.

search for搜索, 搜寻
例句：We searched in vain for the missing child.
我们到处寻找那孩子, 但没有找到。

2. The Hartigans have come from Ashland, Virginia, to see family and leave behind a letterbox.

leave behind忘带, 留下; 丢弃
例句：He left behind a pair of glasses and some books.
他的一副眼镜和一些书籍忘记带上了。

3. And it is just a kind of neat way of connecting with people, you know, as opposed to sending emails and whatnot.

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

4. I am actually kind of hoping for, like, next time we come, eight or nine notes in there.

hope for希望, 希望得到
例句：We hope for an early spring.
我们希望春天早早到来。

5. But for more than one hundred years, the activity was limited to a small number of people in England.

be limited to被限制在...上
例句：Each speaker is limited to five minutes.
每个人发言不得超过5分钟。

6. It’s kind of like setting up treasure hunts.

set up建立, 创立, 竖立
例句：Plenty of foreign firms have set up factories here.
很多外国公司已在这里开办工厂。

7. For example, the only clue he provides for locating a letterbox in North Carolina is a poem written like a Japanese haiku:

provide for为…作准备; 为…提供
例句：Every possible risk has been provided for in this project.
此方案对各种可能发生的风险都作了准备。

8. I like people to have an ‘aha’ experience when they figure it out.

figure out弄明白; 计算出; 解决
例句：I can't figure out what he was hinting at.
我想不出他在暗示什么。

9. When you are trying to help someone find your letterbox, you are editing, reading and reviewing everything that you write down on your clue list so that you can help someone come and find your hidden book.

write down写下, 记下
例句：What you've said has been written down.
你所说的一切都被记录下来了。

10. A visit to a book fair showed Patricia Ruth that she did not have to depend on traditional publishers.

depend on随…而定
例句：Whether the game will be played depends on the weather.
比赛是否举行要看天气而定。

11. One of the key challenges for authors is coming up with their cover.

come up with想出, 提出
例句：I hope you can come up with a better plan than this.
我希望你们能提出一个比这个更好的计划。

12. Obviously self-publishing gives a lot of control to authors and allows them to fulfill their goals without having to go through a pretty difficult, tiresome and lengthy process and rejections.

go through遭受, 经受, 经历
例句：When he was a child, he went through one hardship after another.
孩提时代, 他经历了一个又一个的艰难困苦。