VOA慢速英语:Looking Inside the Brains of 'Lucid Dreamers'

短语讲解：

1. Today, we tell how warmer weather in the Arctic could speed up climate change around the world.

speed up (使)加速
例句：We are speeding up the mechanization of our agriculture.
我们正在加快农业机械化的步伐。

2. To deal with that problem, the researchers removed the DNA from pieces of the permafrost.

deal with应付, 处理; 对待
例句：He must deal with many difficulties.
他必须应付许多困难。
remove from从…中移开〔拿走, 除掉〕
例句：She removed mud from her shoes.
她擦去了鞋上的泥。

3. Some of the methane was being consumed by other microorganisms in the samples, and they in turn would release CO2, carbon dioxide.

in turn相应地；转而
例句：All theories originate from practice and in turn serve practice. 
任何理论都来源于实践,反过来为实践服务。 

4. Another possible explanation comes from Michael Le Bars at the Research Institute for Out-of-Equilibrium Phenomena in France.

come from来自，源出；产自
例句：From this area come most of our best potatoes.
我们最好的马铃薯大部分是这个地区生产的。

5. His theory also suggests the moon’s mantle may have been involved in the stirring of the liquid core.

involve in使参与〔陷入, 牵扯到〕
例句：Don't involve me in your quarrel.
不要把我卷进你们的争吵中。

6. Either theory could be correct. And, the two theories could also work together as an explanation of the magnetic rocks from the moon.

work as充当; 任…职, 当…
例句：They select him to work as mayor.
他们选他当市长。

7. I am high up in the sky, looking down on my house.

look down on俯瞰(某处)
例句：The church stands on a hill, looking down on the village.
教堂位于一座小山上, 俯瞰着村子。

8. Please don’t let me fall. Why is this happening to me? How can this be happening to me?

happen to发生在…身上
例句：An odd thing happened to him this morning.
他今天早晨遇到一件怪事。

9. He and his team searched for people who are called “lucid dreamers.”

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。

10. Then the subjects were asked to dream that they were squeezing their hands into a fist. First they dreamed of doing this with their left hand, and then the right.

squeeze into挤入, 塞进
例句：I can't squeeze another thing into my trunk.
我的衣箱里一样东西也塞不进了。
dream of梦见
例句：He dreamed of being in the United States last night.
昨夜他梦见自己在美国。

11. In other words, the computer screen showed that the same areas of the brain “light up” and become active in either situation.

light up (使)变得喜悦, (使)兴奋起来
例句：Her face lit up when she heard the news.
当她听到这个消息时, 她的脸上闪出喜悦的光彩。