VOA慢速英语:A Kitchen That Talks? This One Teaches French

短语讲解：

1. The kitchen equipment and tools use motion sensor technology similar to the Nintendo Wii game system.

similar to与……相似
例句：My view is similar to yours.
我的看法与你相似。

2. The system can tell whether you’ve done what you were asked to do or not.

whether or not是否; 无论
例句：Whether you like the idea or not, I'm going ahead with it.
无论你是否喜欢这个意见, 我将继续做下去。

3. And so it doesn’t go on to the next stage of the program unless you’ve done what it senses you’ve done.

go on继续下去
例句：If he goes on like this he'll lose his job.
如果他继续这样下去,他会丢掉差事的。

4. Students can ask the computer to repeat the instructions or translate them into English.

translate into把…转化成; (把…)翻译成…
例句：He translated what I said in English into Chinese.
他把我用英语说的译成汉语。

5. It was actually for communicating with people who suffer from dementia.

suffer from患(某种病); 受(某种病痛)折磨; 因(疾病)而痛或不舒服
例句：You must have suffered from a cold.
你一定是感冒了。

6. And so, for example, it can speak to those people and it can tell them, for example, that they’ve left the oven on and they should switch the oven off.

switch off关闭
例句：When the clock struck twelve, I switched off TV and went to bed.
时钟敲响十二点时, 我关了电视上床睡觉。

7. He says the French Digital Kitchen turns the process of learning language into a real-life experience.

turn into使变成
例句：They are turning waste land into paddy fields.
他们正在使荒地变为稻田。

8. Okay, so - so you have to take actions so that you don’t have water in the sink and you tell people not to throw them in the sink.

take action采取行动
例句：We have to take action to stop them.
我们得采取行动来制止他们。

9. The system could be available for sale by the end of twenty twelve.

be available for有效; 可供……利用
例句：The passport is available for 5 years.
本护照5年有效。