VOA慢速英语:'Property Ladder' Helps Poor Gain Land Rights

短语讲解：

1. Less than a third of people in developing countries own or have any official right to the land they live on.

live on以…为食; 靠…为生; 住在…上; 继续活着; 继续存在
例句：Most of Asians live on rice.
多数亚洲人以大米为主食。

2. Groups like UN-Habitat and its partners are working on a simple way to secure land rights for millions of people.

work on致力于…
例句：He has been working on a new novel for over a year now.
近一年多来, 他一直在写一部新小说。

3. When an investor goes to the government and says 'I want a piece of land,' the government looks on their maps which show that that particular piece of land is empty, and they give it to an investor.

look on把眼光投向〔以某种观点来看待或对待〕(某物或某人)
例句：He looked on me with curiosity.
他好奇地凝视着我。

4. Forcing the people off the land can harm the image of the investor.

force off迫使离开
例句：They forced her off her homeland many years ago.
许多年前他们迫使她离开了她的家乡。

5. And most countries cannot afford to give the majority of citizens, at this point in time, ownership rights because of the cost of creating it, and most individuals cannot afford to subsidize it.

afford to买得起;有足够的...(去做...)
例句：They did not consider whether they could afford the time or not.
他们没有考虑是否抽得出时间。

6. East Timor separated from Indonesia in nineteen ninety-nine.

separate from分开; 区别
例句：No child should ever be separated from his mother by force.
绝不能强行使任何一个孩子与母亲分开。

7. The Indonesian army had destroyed land records and forced communities from their land to break up resistance.

break up (使)破裂
例句：It was money trouble that broke up their marriage.
他们因钱的问题婚姻才破裂的。