VOA慢速英语:American History: Hurricane Katrina, Iraq and the Great Recession

carry out 实现
例句：She had finally carried out her promise to quit smoking.
她最终实现了戒烟的诺言。

2. He also talked about his goals at home and what he calledAmerica's ideal of freedom.

talk about 谈论;谈到
例句：What are they talking about?
他们在谈什么?

3. In America's ideal of freedom, citizens find the dignity andsecurity of economic independence instead of laboring on the edgeof subsistence.

instead of 代替
例句：He will go instead of you.
他将代你去。

4. Presidential historian Russell Riley at the University ofVirginia's Miller Center says presidents traditionally use theirfirst term to focus on their major goals for the country.

focus on  (使)集中于
例句：He focused his eyes on me.
他注视着我。

5. You saw people using claw hammers trying to break through theirattic to get up onto their roof.

break through 突破，冲破
例句：Demonstrators tried to break through the police cordon. 
示威群众企图突破警察的封锁线. 
get up 起身
例句：What time do you get up? I usually get up at six. 
你几点起床？我通常六点起床。

6. She called, on a Friday, and said, 'I think you need to comepick up my son, because there's a really big storm coming.

pick up　收拾；用车接载(人)
例句：I'd really like to pick up Grandpa at the railroad station. 
我真想去火车站接爷爷。

7. Property damage totaled more than seventy-five billion dollars.

more than 不只
例句：Margaret needed support more than ever. 
玛格丽特比以往更需要关心。 

8. But Katrina will be remembered mostly because of what happenedin New Orleans.

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

9. Others were too poor, too old or too sick to go.

sick to 忠于;信守
例句：He is a man who sticks to his friends.
他是个忠于朋友的人。

10. She says by President Bush's second term, few Iraqis wanted tocooperate with the Americans to make the country more secure.

cooperate with 和……合作
例句：They would not cooperate with him. 
他们不愿与他合作。 

11. Sales of CDs in stores fell as more and more people downloadedsongs from the Internet.

more and more 越来越
例句：As minutes dragged on, more and more he worried about waking early. 
时光一分一分地挨过去，他又越来越担心自己会醒得太早。