VOA慢速英语:Do Sex Strikes Work?

1. Members of "Let's Save Togo" planned to withhold sex from their husbands to pressure the men to take action against President Faure Gnassingbe.

take action 采取行动
例句：We have to take action to stop them.
我们得采取行动来制止他们。

2.  She says the idea is good for making news headlines, but it takes a lot of work.

be good for 有益于;适于
例句：Exercise is good for circulation. 
运动有益于血液循环。 
a lot of 大量
例句：Britain does a lot of trade with America. 
英国与美国进行大量的贸易。

3. If you're talking about a few days where women make a point, I think that works.

talk about 谈论
例句：He went on to talk about his accident. 
他接着谈到了他的意外事故。

4. I think it's a good headline, a lot harder to put into practice.

put into practice 实施;执行
例句：It's easy to talk, but difficult to put into practice. 
说起来轻巧, 做起来难。 

5. But Pepper Schwartz at the University of Washington says women need to hold real power in order for something like a sex strike to work.

in order for 为了
例句：In order for the forest to survive, its inhabitants must survive first. 
要想使森林生存，首先必须使它的居民能够生存。 

6. In some societies your husband would pound on you or, you know, enact his own kinds of revenge, but you have to have a society where a man respects a woman's opinion and her desire to say no and will, in fact, respect her for it."

in fact 事实上
例句：In fact it requires at least n generators. 
事实上，它至少要有n个元素。