和谐英语

VOA慢速英语:Medical Students Help the Homeless; Haitian Soccer Players in Maryland; Soccer Balls for Afr

2012-11-13来源:VOA

短语讲解:

1. The students bring supplies and medical records in a truck and set up chairs along the street for the patients.

set up 设立
例句:Let me set up the demonstration equipment.
让我把展示装置设立起来。

2. Small infections on your foot might be able to be handled by just changing your socks and all that.

be able to 能够
例句:We'll be able to smooth away these difficulties.
我们能够克服这些困难。

3. But when those, quick, being able to wash in a bath or change your socks, they can actually lead to limb-threatening infections.

lead to 导致
例句:This may even lead to death.
这甚至可能导致死亡。

4. Steffanie Becerra is a medical student who works with the patients.

work with 共事
例句:He work with his friend.
他和他的朋友们一起工作。

5. Coach Cirovski was born in Yugoslavia and raised in Canada.

born in 出生
例句:I was born in a small town.
我出生在一个小镇。

6. It took more than fifteen years for the two friends to make their dream come true.

come true 实现
例句:Today, a century dream come true!
百年梦想今日成真!

7. We're driving down the road and we're going by this little village and we see about a dozen kids trying to play soccer and they were literally kicking around a sock filled with sand.

fill with 充满
例句:His mind began to fill with dreadful thoughts,
他心里逐渐充满种种可怕的念头。

8. So in twenty-eleven, they decided to focus on Libore, a small, rural community near Niamy, the capital of Niger.

focus 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。

9. We drive up and they had literally a thousand to two thousand people there -- both adults and children -- to watch these kids play soccer.

drive up 哄抬
例句:These incentives drive up insurance costs which are passed on to consumers.
这些奖励哄抬保险费是转嫁到消费者身上。

10.  So the field is totally lined with spectators and then they had, like, a lean-to tent at the center of the field where the mayor and the chief and the dignitaries were sitting.

at the center of 在中心
例句:At the center of the square stands a monument.
在广场中心矗立着一座纪念碑。