VOA慢速英语:New Rules on US Summer Jobs for Foreign Students

1. The idea is for students to work for up to three months andearn enough money to then spend a month traveling before theyreturn home.

work for 为……效力; 为……工作
例句：Comrade Yang will be in charge of that work for the timebeing. 
杨同志将暂时负责那项工作。 

2.  These changes follow a strike last summer by foreign studentsworking at a distribution center for Hershey's chocolates.

work at 从事于，致力于
例句：I'm applying to work at the library. 
我在申请图书馆管理员的工作。 

3. The students complained about having to lift heavy boxes and towork overnight.

complain about 抱怨
例句：I have nothing to complain of.
我没什么可抱怨的。

4. The students also complained about being underpaid as a resultof deductions from their earnings.

as a result of 作为...的结果,由于...
例句：Many facts emerged as a result of the investigation. 
调查结果,许多事实暴露出来。 

5. Some of their pay had to go to subcontractors involved in theoperations.

involve in 涉及
例句：We only discuss the relative problems we are all involve in. 我们只讨论与我们每个人有关的问题. 

6. It also protects U.S. workers, because there is high unemployment in a lot of those occupations.

a lot of 很多
例句：A lot of cars are manufactured in Europe. 
很多汽车是欧洲制造的。 

7. JACOB HORWITZ: "The changes to the J-1 rules really recognizethe demands that the students put forward, and both add a wholeset of protections and changes that protect local workers who workin industries that use guest workers and also protect future J-1 students."

put forward 提出
例句：It's not like him to put forward suggestions wholly void of sense. 
他才不会提毫无见识的建议呢。