VOA慢速英语:Syrian ‘Citizen Journalists’ Use Social Media to Spread News Restricted by Government

play a part in与…有关,对…有影响; 在…中起作用
例句：Women play a significant part in the modern Olympic Games.
妇女在现代奥运会中发挥了重要的作用。

2. The Syrian government barred most media from the country after the unrest began almost one year ago.

bar from禁止
例句：The members voted to bar women from the club.
会员表决不让妇女加入该俱乐部。

3. But that has not stopped Syrians from getting out information to the rest of the world.

stop from阻止某事发生
例句：The guard stopped him from going through the gate.
警卫不让他通过大门。
get out出版, 发行
例句：A new version of the dictionary has been got out.
这部词典的一种新版本已经问世。

4. Many Syrians have turned to social media like YouTube, Facebook and Twitter to help spread reports about what is happening in the country.

turn to求助于
例句：He turned to me for help.
他向我求助。

5. The video is said to show shells falling on the city of Homs.

fall on落到, 轮到
例句：His eyes fell on a curious object.
他的目光落在一个奇怪的物体上。

6. This is one of hundreds, possibly thousands of similar videos placed on social media websites in the past few weeks.

place on把…放在…上; 把…强加于…
例句：He placed the book on the shelf.
他把书放在书架上。

7. Many news organizations have had to depend on reports and videos from people they call citizen journalists.

depend on依赖, 依靠
例句：All living things depend on the sun for their growth.
万物靠太阳生长。

8. He also said the government had deprived its people of basic needs and humanity and brought the country to the edge of disaster.

deprive of剥夺某人的…
例句：These misfortunes almost deprived him of his reason.
这些不幸的事几乎使他丧失了理智。

9. Because there’s nobody there on the ground, because there’s no reporter there that can say ‘oh yes, I’ve looked out of my window and I’ve seen this.

look out向外看; 面向; 朝外
例句：My hotel room looks out across the lake.
从我住的旅馆房间望出去是一片湖光景色。

10. In Talkalakh where I come from, we started writing anti-government graffiti on walls.

come from出生于
例句：She came from a long line of singers.
她出身于一个歌手世家。