VOA慢速英语:Can Social Media Improve Voter Turnout?

短语讲解：

1. It estimates that about one third of a million more people voted in America’s two thousand ten congressional elections all because of a single message on Facebook.

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。

2. There was also a link that you could click on that allowed you to look up your polling place.

look up 查询
例句：If you don't know a word, you can look it up in a dictionary.
如果你有不识的字,可以查字典。

3. He says this led an additional two hundred eighty thousand people to take part in the elections.

take part in 参加
例句：Are you going to take part in the first experiment?
你们会参与首次实验吗?

4. And, Professor Fowler says the experiment led to an even more interesting finding.

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

5. That all of the extra two hundred eighty thousand voters were coming from just ten out of your one hundred fifty friends.

come from 来自
例句：Dreams come from within, not from the outside. 
梦由内心产生，非来自外界。