VOA慢速英语:Words and Their Stories: Nicknames for Philadelphia and Boston

短语讲解：

1. Philadelphia is best known as The City of Brotherly Love.

known as 被认为是,被称为
例句：The resultant defect is known as chromatic aberration. 
由此而产生的缺陷叫做色差。

2. The king named the colony Pennsylvania in honor of Penn’sfather.  William Penn was a Quaker.

in honor of 纪念...;祝贺...;向...致敬
例句：A banquet was given in honor of the visiting President. 
为来访的总统举行了宴会。

3. In the late seventeen hundreds, many events that took place inPhiladelphia gave birth to the American Revolution andindependence.

take place 发生;举行
例句：When will the basketball game take place?
篮球赛何时举行?
give birth to 生(孩子); 使...发生
例句：She gave birth to a fine healthy baby.
她生了个漂亮健康的婴儿。

4. For example, the Declaration of Independence and theConstitution were signed in the city.

for example 例如
例句：Many great people rose from poor backgrounds -- Lincoln for example.
很多伟人出身贫寒,林肯就是一例。

5. You may have heard of the Boston Massacre, the Boston Tea Partyand the Battle of Bunker Hill.

hear of 听说过
例句： It gratified me to hear of your success. 
获悉你取得成功我甚感欣慰. 

6. But it was not because the city grew a lot of beans.

a lot of 许多
例句： I got a lot of mail from Japan. 
我收到许多来自日本的信件。