VOA慢速英语:Website Saves Today's Headlines for the Future

1. Twenty-nine-year-old reporter Ben Welsh decided to create asite similar to Archive.org.

decide to 决定
例句：They decide to destroy the windmill. 
他们决心摧毁风车。 

2. Mr. Welsh works for the Los Angeles Times newspaper inCalifornia.

work for 致力
例句：Comrade Yang will be in charge of that work for the time being. 
杨同志将暂时负责那项工作。 

3. He hopes to keep adding to the site until it is archivingmaterial from up to three hundred news websites around the world.

add to 加
例句：I have nothing to add to my earlier statement. 
我对我先前说的话, 没有什么补充的. 

4. Thousands of Americans use the website to seek money to pay fortheir projects.

pay for 付款
例句：But however am I to pay for such a thing as this? 
可是这么一件东西叫我怎样付款呢？ 

5. Two days after Ben Welsh made his request, PastPages.org hadreceived promises for half of the five thousand dollars that he had asked for.

ask for 要求
例句：He had the audacity to ask for an increase in salary. 
他竟然厚着脸皮要求增加薪水。 

6. So now you could go back and look hour by hour and see the placement of what was the lead story, how the headline changed and how one newspaper played a story versus another one.

go back 退回
例句：If you got to get to us, go back to the fork. 
假如有事要找我们，回到岔路口。