VOA慢速英语:American History: The Presidential Election of 1988

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短语讲解：

1. This week in our series, we look at the presidential election of nineteen eighty-eight.

look at 看
例句：Look at the map, please.
请看这张地图。

2. The candidates heavily attacked each other through campaign advertising on television.

each other 互相
例句：They somehow supplemented each other. 
它们却起着互相补充的作用。 

3. But not long ago, Governor Dukakis proposed a way to help clean it up – by dumping Massachusetts sewage sludge off the New Jersey shore, just one hundred and six miles from New York.

clean up 清除
例句：Stop idling and help me clean up. 
别游手好闲的, 来帮我打扫打扫吧. 

4. Dukakis accused Bush of not telling the truth about his part in the secret sales of arms to Iran to finance contra rebels in Nicaragua.

tell about 讲述
例句：He had learned how to tell about them. 
他早已学会了如何评论她们。 

5. It’s cut federal aid to education, has cut Pell Grants and loans, to close the door to college opportunity on youngsters all over this country.

all over 完全，完结
例句：By the time I came on the scene, it was all over. 
我来到时, 一切都结束了. 

6. Many people made fun of the ad.

make fun of 取笑
例句：They made fun of his funny voice.
他们拿他的怪嗓音取笑。

7. He was shot down once and rescued by an American submarine.

shoot down 击落
例句：The enemy plane was shot down.
敌机被击落了。

8. Both were suffering as they moved away from central control.

away from 远离
例句：I came away from chapel very sober. 
从教堂出来，我头脑清醒多了。 

9. The fall of the Berlin Wall pointed to the end of the Soviet Union, the end of Communist rule in most of the countries in the former Soviet Bloc – and the end of more than 40 years of the Cold War between the East and West.

point to 指着
例句：Now point to the buildings. 
现在请指着那些建筑物。

10. The presidency of George Herbert Walker Bush will be remembered as the time during which these world changing events took place, as well as the beginning of the Persian Gulf War with Iraq, following Iraq’s invasion of Kuwait.

take place 发生;举行
例句：When will the basketball game take place?
篮球赛何时举行?
as well as  和...一样;和;也
例句：Let' s share in our troubles as well as in our joys. 
让我们同甘共苦吧。