VOA慢速英语:Consumers' Online Petitions Put Pressure on Businesses

短语讲解：

1. The top causes range from animal protection to criminal justice to women's rights.

range from to　从...变化到...
例句：Prices range from ￡6 to ￡10.
价钱从六英镑到十英镑不等。

2. It was outrageous enough to be posted on Facebook, but it was actually more outrageous than that, and I felt like I needed to do something about it.

feel like摸起来像是…; 有…的感觉; 想要…
例句：This new man-made material feels like real leather.
这种新型人造材料摸起来像真皮一样。

3. "From the time that Lauren started the petition on Change.org and J.C. Penney pulled the shirt, it was about ten hours, in which it got over two thousand signatures and at one point was generating over four hundred tweets a minute.

get over做完…, 结束
例句：They got the work over as quickly as possible.
他们尽快地结束了工作。

4. But now, with the Internet, consumers who take offense can do more than just write an angry letter to the company.

take offense生气，见怪，动怒。感到自己受到了侮辱
例句：He is quick to take offense.
他很易发怒。

5. Another clothing seller, Forever 21, got in trouble not long after J.C. Penney.

in trouble处于困境中；有麻烦
例句：Richard is in trouble again.
理查又再次陷入麻烦之中了。