和谐英语

VOA慢速英语:Helping Women Continue Their Education After Prison

2012-04-20来源:VOA

短语讲解:

1. About seventy percent of those taking part in the program workfull-time while studying.

take part in 参加
例句:Are you going to take part in the first experiment?
你们会参与首次实验吗?

2. Or, they have violated the terms of their parole. Bycomparison, almost no CCF fellows go back to jail.

go back 追溯
例句:His family goes back to the 18th century.
他的家族可追溯至十八世纪。

3. What was missing for me, and what I think was missing in theworld, was an organization that tapped into what was left ofpeople’s hopes and dreams, that said it is okay for you to wantto be something.

tap into 挖掘
例句:The real powers of ESP seem to lie within us —we just don't know how to tap into them yet .
ESP的真正力量似乎存在于我们之中,只是我们尚未知晓如何去开发它们而已。

4. You don’t have to just accept any job, you know, at a fast-food restaurant or cleaning up a hotel, or cleaning up the streetsof New York City.

clean up 打扫;整理
例句:She is cleaning up the kitchen now.
她现在正在打扫厨房。

5. You can still have desires and goals, and we are going to helpyou meet those desires and goals.

be going to 计划(或打算、决定)(做某事)
例句:Now she is going to a party in Greenwich Village .
此刻,她准备到格林尼治村去参加一个聚会。

6. The group holds meetings for the about two hundred seventypeople who take part.

take part 参加
例句: Sixteen schools have agreed to take part in the program so far .
到目前为止,已经有十六个学校同意参加该项目。