VOA慢速英语:Rural Medical School Competes With City Life

短语讲解：

1. They say, 'You know, I really have every intention of coming back to rural Kansas,' but they meet a soul mate, they get married, their soul mate happens to be from a big city and we never see them again.

come back回来
例句：I'm going away and I may never come back.
我要走了, 可能永远不再回来。
happen to碰巧
例句：I happen to be more than usually hard up. 
近来正巧手头更紧了。 

2. Student Claire Hinrichsen grew up in a town of about six hundred people.

grow up长大, 成熟
例句：Tom wants to be a coach when he grows up.
汤姆长大后想当教练。

3. I went to KU, so I went to a big school, and I’m getting back to the small feel. I like it a lot.

get back找回, 取回
例句：I haven't got back the book I lent him.
我还没有收回我借给他的那本书。

4. So it was a big change and it was hard to get used to having so many people there."

get used to习惯于
例句：I get used to looking after myself.
我已经习惯于照顾自己了。

5. Going into a specialty in a big city can mean better working hours and more money to pay off student loans.

go into进入; 从事
例句：They want their son to go into medicine.
他们要儿子从事医学工作。
pay off付清, 还清
例句：You must pay off your old loan before you can obtain a new one.
你必须还清旧账, 然后才能再借款。

6. Dr. Cathcart-Rake hopes four years of medical school and two years of residency will be enough time to put down roots.

put down放下
例句：Put down that book and help your mother with the dishes.
放下那本书, 帮你母亲洗餐具。

7. It’s going to be hopefully harder for them to break away from those roots and go to bigger cities.

break away与…决裂; 从…退出; 突然离开; 突然挣脱; 改掉; 放弃
例句：The criminal broke away from the young policemen.
那名罪犯从年轻警察手里逃脱了。