VOA慢速英语:American History: The Presidential Election of 1988

limit to (把…)限制在…, 局限于…
例句：We must limit the expenses to $100 a month.
我们必须把开支限制在每月100美元。

2. And they accused him of not protecting the environment by seeking a permit to dump sewage from Massachusetts off the coast of New Jersey.

accuse of指责, 控告
例句：We accused him of taking bribes.
我们控告他受贿。

3. But not long ago, Governor Dukakis proposed a way to help clean it up – by dumping Massachusetts sewage sludge off the New Jersey shore, just one hundred and six miles from New York.

clean up打扫; 清理
例句：Let me clean up the broken glass before someone walks on it.
我来把碎玻璃扫掉, 以免有人踩到。

4. I must have been living through a different eight years from the ones the vice president’s been living through, because this administration has cut and slashed, and cut and slashed programs for children, for nutrition, for the kinds of things that can help these youngsters to live better lives.

live through经历过; 经历…而未死
例句：She has lived through several terrible accidents.
她曾经历过几次可怕的意外事故。

5. In the end, Bush's campaign succeeded in making Dukakis look weak on crime and defense.

succeed in成功;顺利完成
例句：They succeeded in solving the problem.
他们成功地解决了这个问题。

6. He ran for the United States Senate in nineteen sixty-four, and lost.

run for竞选；让…竞选
例句：Mr. Brown did not want to run for governor of the state last year.
布朗先生去年不想竞选州长。

7. President Bush took some steps against China, but many critics felt the sanctions were not strong enough.

take steps采取措施
例句：They took steps to prevent the spread of influenza.
他们采取措施阻止流感的传播。

8. November of nineteen eighty-nine brought a dramatic expression of the changes taking place in eastern Europe.

take place发生; 举行
例句：The evening party will take place on New Year's Eve.
晚会将在除夕那天举行。

9. Within days, citizens and soldiers began tearing the wall down as the world watched with hope for a new era of peace.

tear down拆毁; 拆卸
例句：The old houses have been torn down.
旧房子拆掉了。

10. The fall of the Berlin Wall pointed to the end of the Soviet Union, the end of Communist rule in most of the countries in the former Soviet Bloc – and the end of more than 40 years of the Cold War between the East and West.

point to表明
例句：All the signs at the moment point to an early resumption of the fighting between the two countries.
眼下的一切迹象都表明这两个国家将很快重新开战。