和谐英语

VOA慢速英语:Making Friends Not Always Easy for Foreign Students

2012-08-17来源:VOA

短语讲解:

1. Those feelings are among the reasons why Australia is taking a close look at its international education industry.

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

2. VOA's Student Union blogger Jessica Stahl did her own survey to find out how American students and foreign students relate to each other.

find out 找出;发现;查明
例句:The police found the murderer out.
警方搜寻到了杀人犯。
each other 相互
例句:They somehow supplemented each other. 
它们却起着互相补充的作用。

3. More than one hundred students, about half of them American, answered her online questions.

more than 多于
例句:Rob likes apples more than bananas. 
罗勃对苹果比对香蕉还喜欢。 

4. Eighty-five percent of the Americans said they have at least one international friend.

at least 至少
例句:At least, I sincerely hope so. 
至少我是真诚地这样希望的。