VOA慢速英语:Counting Down to the Olympic Crowds in London

短语讲解：

1. The London Olympics are less than one hundred days away.

less than 少于
例句：Without question , black people and women earn less than white males in the American economy .
毫无疑问，黑人和妇女在美国经济中挣得的钱要比白种男人少。

2. When you're talking about seven years, six years, five years,four years, but actually when you're really talking about days,and we're talking twelve Wednesdays or something, I mean it reallyis, it's very close.

talk about 谈论，议论
例句：What are they talking about?
他们在谈什么?

3. He will attempt to build on his record fourteen Olympic gold medals.

build on 依赖、依靠……；把……建立于
例句：We must build on our reputation to expand the business.
我们必须以信誉为基础扩大业务。

4.  It's different from what happened in Vancouver, it's certainlydifferent from what happened in Beijing.

be different from 与…不同，不同于
例句：And it says the conditioned response may be different from the unconditioned response.
它还表明，条件反应,可能会与非条件反射有所不同。