VOA慢速英语:Words and Their Stories: Hold On

短语讲解：

1. In the following song, singer Dolly Parton tells her new love that her old flames, her old lovers, cannot compare with him.

compare with比得上, 可与…相比
例句：He just can't compare with Mozart.
他怎么也不能与莫扎特相比。

2. A driver late for work may tell his boss, “I was held up by heavy traffic.”

heavy traffic交通堵塞
例句：Heavy traffic delayed us.
交通堵塞使我们迟到了。

3. As you leave for school, your brother may say, “Hold on, you forgot your book.”

leave for出发去(某地)
例句：We'll leave for Guangzhou by plane.
我们将乘飞机去广州。

4. Hold on is used to ask a telephone caller to wait and not hang up his telephone.

be used to do被用来做…
例句：Osier is used to make baskets.
柳条常用来编筐。
hang up将电话筒挂上
例句：I tried to talk to her, but she hung up on me.
我试图与她谈话, 但她却挂断了电话。

5. If you call a library to ask for a book, the librarian might say, “Hold on while I look for it.

ask for请求…, 要求…
例句：Might I ask for a photograph of your little daughter?
我能要一张你小女儿的照片吗?

6. For example, the president may say he will hold the line on taxes.

for example例如, 譬如
例句：There are many sources of air pollution; exhaust fumes, for example.
空气污染有许多来源, 例如废气。