VOA慢速英语:The IMF Details Concerns About Zimbabwe's Debt

短语讲解：

1. The IMF report said Zimbabwe’s high growth rate would slow down to five percent this year.

slow down vt. （使）慢下来
例句：Food will slow down the absorption of alcohol.
食物会减缓对酒精的吸收。

2. But concerns about upcoming elections to change the country’ s three-year-old coalition government add to economic worries.

add to 增加
例句：I have nothing to add to my earlier statement. 
我对我先前说的话, 没有什么补充的. 

3. Those large farms were broken up and given to many small farmers.

break up 破裂
例句：In spring the ice-floes break up. 
春天浮冰碎裂了. 

4. But Tendai Biti has said the recovery will remain weak until international institutions such as the IMF cancel Zimbabwe’s debt.

such as 例如
例句：Context scenarios address questions such as the following:
情境场景剧本解决了以下的问题。