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VOA慢速英语:Week of Final Presidential Debate Ends With More Campaign Activities

2012-10-28来源:VOA

短语讲解:

1. The candidate receiving at least two hundred seventy electoral votes becomes president.

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

2. His campaign gets smaller and smaller and focused on smaller and smaller things.

focuse on 集中
例句:Just keeping the focus on you and your father.
注意力集中于你和你父亲。

3. In one speech, he asked supporters if they could deal with four more years of twenty-three million Americans looking for a good job.

deal with 处理
例句:How do you deal with this problem?
你怎样处理这个问题?

4. "I think the race has stabilized at a dead heat and I think it's likely that we will go into Election Day not knowing who's going to come out the winner."

come out 出来
例句:Two cotyledons have come out from the seedling.
小苗长出了两片子叶。

5. He adds that as the end of campaign nears, both candidates are urging voters to get out and vote early.

get out 出去
例句:He wanted to get out of town and get in a good walk. 
他想离开城市好好地去远足一番。 

6. They already know who their base votes are and making sure they get out and vote.

make sure 确定
例句:I'll have to make sure I'm not chased. 
我一定想办法不叫他们发现。