VOA慢速英语:Some American Indian Tribes Recording Faster Growth Than Rest of US

base on使建立在…基础上,立足
例句：Action should be based on solid facts.
行动应有确凿的事实为依据。

2. But other members warned against opening the "floodgates" of tribal membership.

warn against告诫, 当心, 提防
例句：He warned me against pickpockets.
他让我提防小偷。

3. "Jumping" means giving up citizenship in one tribe to move to a wealthier one.

give up放弃
例句：She will give up this journey.
她将放弃这次旅行。

4. If too many people do that, it can reduce shares of profit and put more pressure on tribal services that everyone wants.

put pressure on给……施压，增添压力
例句：The bank put pressure on the company to reduce its borrowings.
银行界向这家公司施加压力，迫使其减少借款。

5. It takes just a couple of generations of marrying outside the tribe to put children at risk of being excluded from membership.

at risk有危险
例句：The disease is spreading, and all children under five are at risk.
这疾病在蔓延, 五岁以下的小孩都有危险。
exclude from把…排斥〔排除〕于…之外
例句：The university had no right to exclude the student from the examination.
学校无权阻止这位学生参加考试。

6. We use them -- another pronoun -- in place of nouns and noun phrases.

in place of代替
例句：Plastics are now often used in place of wood or metal.
现在塑料经常被用来代替木料或金属。

7. So, for example, if I use the word I a lot, it tells a researcher that the person is paying attention to themselves, to their feelings and their thoughts.

pay attention to注意，关心
例句：No attention was paid to his advice.
他的建议没有引起注意。

8. We get huge bodies of text, it could be conversations or books or poems or whatever, and by analyzing the way they are using pronouns and also articles, prepositions and conjunctions -- this is a group called function words -- we get a sense of how they are thinking and how they are connecting with others.

connect with使有关系
例句：He is connected with the affairs.
他和此事有关系。

9. Most of the research has been done with English texts.

do with与…有关
例句：I'm interested in anything to do with music.
凡与音乐有关的事我都感兴趣。

10. When people are using the words 'I,' 'me' and 'my' at high rates, they tend to be more honest, they tend to be a little bit more depressed, they tend to be a little bit more anxious than people who do not use 'I's' and that holds up across all these different languages and even ancient languages like ancient Greek.

hold up举出, 提出
例句：Don't hold me up as a model.
不要拿我当典型。