和谐英语

VOA慢速英语:Conflicts Keep Millions of Children Out of School

2012-06-21来源:VOA

短语讲解:

1. Conflicts also put girls and boys at risk of sexual violence.Schoolchildren are also at risk of being forced to become soldiers.

at risk of 冒…的危险
例句:He saved three children alive at risk of his life. 
他拼命救出了三个孩子。

2. Those camps shelter more than two hundred fifty thousandrefugees from Somalia.

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

3. You have sort of classes of over three hundred children, and I mean just the conditions getting worse and worse."

sort of  有几分,有那么点儿
例句:I sort of thought you might say that.
我多少料到你也许会那么说。
get worse 转坏
例句:Food shortages will probably get worse towards the end of the century. 
食物短缺的情况到本世纪末可能更加严重.