和谐英语

VOA慢速英语:Indonesia Clinic Seeks to Save Patients, Forests

2011-10-05来源:VOA

短语讲解:

1. The group is known as ASRI.

known as 被称为
例句:The crests of the Rocky Mountains are known as the Continental Divide. 
落矶山脉的峰峦有“大陆分水岭”之称。  

2. but illegal logging is often their only way to earn money to pay for health care.

pay for 为...付出代价
例句:He'll have to pay for what he has done.
他将为自己所做的一切付出代价。

3. Even if you know that if you protect the forest that’s good for your long-term well-being, if you’re short-term well-being, like you have to get health care and you have to be able to pay for it, you’re willing to do illegal logging to do that.

Even if 尽管
例句:Even if we never fix it, we somehow survive. 
即使我们从来不改正它,有时也没有问题。
be good for 有益于
例句:Do it up. It'll be good for you. 
把它喝完,它对你有益。 
be able to 能,会
例句:They will be able to overcome adversity without ever losing their optimism. 
他们都能克服困难而从不丧失其乐观主义。 
be willing to 乐意,愿意
例句:I understood him to be willing to help. 
我知道他是愿意帮忙的。 

4. Communities that do not take part in illegal logging pay about forty percent less for health care than those that do.

take part in 参加
例句:Did you take part in the festival feast last night? 
你参加昨晚的节日宴会了吗? 

5. One of the guardians says he entered the program because ASRI helped his son recover from tuberculosis.

recover from 自疾病或异常状态恢复(常态)
例句:As soon as I recover from my nervous breakdown. 
只等我从神经崩溃中恢复过来。