VOA慢速英语:Second Chances for Prisoners, Horses and the Unemployed; Dogs Help Children Learn to Read

短语讲解：

1. Then, we learn about an organization called Second Chance.

learn about 学习
例句：Childrenseem to learn about computers by osmosis. 
儿童似乎不知不觉地就了解了计算机. 

2. The Thoroughbred Retirement Foundation is a noNPRofit group that works with the prison.

work with 与…共事/合作；起作用
例句：His secretaries work with system. 
他的几位秘书工作有条不紊。 

3. During the six-month program, the men learn all about horses -- their behavior, their health and how to care for them.

care for 照料
例句：Who will care for the house while the family is away?
全家人都不在时,由谁照料这间房子呢?

4. Some of the horses are ridden to prepare them for adoption.

prepare for 为...作准备,计划
例句：She has well prepared for the test.
她对考试已有充分的准备。

5. He says the prisoners learn from the horses that they have to be nice to the animals and not act aggressively.

learn from 从...中吸取教训
例句：We should learn from his mistakes.
我们应该从他的错误中接受教训。

6. REID McLELLAN: “It's that spending every day in the stall with those horses, and horses don't put up with the kind of false bravado.

put up with 忍受;容忍
例句：I don't know how his parents put up with his antics.
我不知道他的父母是如何忍受他的怪异行为。

7. They recognize false bravado right away.

right away 马上
例句：He didn't answer right away.
他没有马上回答。

8. Ann Tucker of the Thoroughbred Retirement Foundation says Will also had some behavior issues at first.

at first 起先
例句：At first I didn't know what had happened.
起先我不知道发生了什么事。