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VOA慢速英语:Teens, Sexting and 'Cyberbaiting'
短语讲解:
1. Last week we reported on a new study of more than fifteen hundred Internet users age ten to seventeen.
report on报道…, 就…作报告
例句:Jim has been sent to Iran to report on the situation there.
吉姆已被派往伊朗报道那里的局势。
2. That study came from the University of New Hampshire.
come from来自,源出;产自
例句:This word comes from Latin.
这个词源于拉丁语。
3. And from talking to school personnel and teens themselves, it certainly seems like it’s happening quite a bit more frequent than the one percent reported in the New Hampshire study, and more in line with what we found in terms of about one in four kids have sent a sext.
in line with跟…一致, 符合,按照
例句:The new proposal is in line with our general line.
新建议和我们总的原则是一致的。
in terms of就…而言, 从…方面说来
例句:He thought of everything in terms of money.
他是从钱的角度来看每一件事。
4. A recent "Online Family Report" from computer security company Norton called attention to "cyberbaiting" in classrooms.
call attention to唤起注意
例句:The movie star likes to call attention to the crowd.
电影明星喜欢唤起人群的注意。
5. Kids may engage in purposely taunting, or teasing, or harassing the teacher, in order to get the teacher to have some kind of reaction or response that they then hope to capture on a cellphone camera, a video, and post online where people can view it.
engage in参加; 从事; 忙于
例句:I have no time to engage in the debate.
我没时间参加辩论。
in order to为了
例句:We started early in order to arrive before dark.
为了在天黑前到达,我们很早就动身了。
6. What we were surprised to learn is that one in five teachers globally knows somebody that it's happened to or has had it happen to themselves.
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。
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