VOA慢速英语:American History: Social Revolution in the 1960s

1. A time of innocence and hope soon began to look like a time of anger and violence.

look like 看起来像...(一样)
例句：He doesn't look like a dead fox. 
他不象一只死狐狸。 

2. The effect seemed especially bad because of the time in which they had grown up.

because of 因为
例句：Because of the storm he didn't go there.
因为暴风雨他没有去那儿。
grow up 成长
例句：The boys grew up.
孩子们长大了。

3. They listened to musicians such as Jimi Hendrix and Joan Baez, and to groups like The Who and Jefferson Airplane.

such as 如此...的,使...那样的;例如
例句：Any large task, such as driving to the office, involves many smaller tasks. 
任何大的任务，诸如开车前往办公室，涉及很多较小的任务。 

4. Many Americans refused to tune in and drop out in the nineteen sixties.

drop out 脱离
例句：Luckily, I dropped out before the deal turned sour.
很幸运的,在交易变坏前我已退出了。

5. They also demanded equal pay for equal work.

pay for 因...受到惩罚;为...付出代价
例句：He'll have to pay for what he has done.
他将为自己所做的一切付出代价。

6. The idea known as the feminine mystique was the traditional idea that women have only one part to play in society.

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。 

7. In her book, Ms. Friedan urged women to establish professional lives of their own.

of one's own 自己的
例句：They cherished the child as one of their own. 
他们把这孩子当作自己亲生子女一般。 

8. The committee's findings helped lead to new rules and laws.

lead to 导致
例句：Smoking can lead to lung cancer.
抽烟可能导致肺癌。