VOA慢速英语:How Safe Do You Feel in Your Neighborhood?

短语讲解：

1. Political and social scientist James Q. Wilson was interestedin a great many subjects.

be interested in 对什么东西对人很感兴趣
例句：I'm interested in you.
我对你很感兴趣。

2. This week on our program we look back at his influence onmodern policing.

look back on 回顾;回头看
例句：I look back on this as something we really did right. 
我现在回过头看这件事情，认为我们是真正做对了。

3. The ideas the authors presented were largely based onpsychology and how people form opinions about the safety of aneighborhood.

base on 基于
例句：Base on my skills and experience, I'm looking for3000 yuan amonth. 
根据我的能力和经验，我希望月薪是3000元。 

4. If a window is broken and then quickly fixed, it sends amessage that people care enough to keep order in the neighborhood.

enough to do 足够做某事
例句：He discovered it enough to encourage him to speak. 
他发现这足以鼓励他开腔了。
keep order维持秩序
例句：The young teacher can't keep order in her classroom. 
那位年轻教师无法维持课堂秩序。 

5. Criminologists across the United States had pretty much givenup hope that police could have any effect on crime."

give up 放弃
例句：The bottom line is that we (should) never give up. 
最重要的是我们决不放弃。 

6. These included putting more police officers on foot instead ofin cars.

instead of 代替
例句：You are really an ungrateful wretch to complain instead ofthanking him. 
你不但不谢他, 还埋怨他, 真不知好歹。 

7. "When Bratton came into New York he concentrated on low-levelcriminals rather than higher-level criminals, thinking that takingcare of the low level criminals would automatically take care ofthe higher-level criminals because, indeed, they were the samepeople."

take care of 照顾
例句：Please take care of the baby for me for a while, will you? 
请替我照顾一下这孩子,好吗? 

8. In nineteen ninety, New York had more than two thousandkillings.

more than 不只
例句：Darwin spent more than twenty years working on his theory ofevolution. 
达尔文花了二十余年时间研究他的进化论。

9. That is jumping over the fare gates without paying for a trainride.

pay for 付款，赔偿
例句：I' ll give you double pay for working overtime. 
你加班我付你双倍工钱。 

10. If not, they could be accused of violating a person's rights,or racial profiling -- targeting people just because of theirrace.

because of 由于
例句：Because of the storm he didn't go there.
因为暴风雨他没有去那儿。