VOA慢速英语:Saving a School, and Its History

短语讲解：

1. They said that the building just wasn’t worth saving, and you could just look at it and tell that it was going to fall any minute, so let’s tear it down.

tear down拆毁; 拆卸
例句：The old houses have been torn down.
旧房子拆掉了。

2. A number of states kept blacks from attending school with whites.

keep from阻止; 免于
例句：Urgent business kept me from attending the meeting.
因有急事我不能去参加会议。

3. The old schoolhouse continued to be used for social activities and a day care center.

be used for用来做…
例句：Wood is used for making paper.
木材用于造纸。

4. This particular school kind of embodies to me what was going on with the communities at the time, because in many African-American communities, it was African-American families that gave land for these schools to be built.

go on发生
例句：What's going on here?
这儿发生什么事啦?

5. And they went through it and they talked about how sound it was and how, you know, I mean, they’d never seen anything like this.

go through检查, 审查, 搜查
例句：They went through our luggage at the customs.
海关人员仔细检查了我们的行李。