和谐英语

VOA慢速英语:Aid Workers Seek to Build 'Resilience' in Sahel

2012-11-27来源:VOA

短语讲解:

1. "And I think now there's an understanding [of the need for] a very targeted program looking at these eighteen million people affected this year, working with them to find ways so that they don't have to make the kinds of decisions to survive in a crisis of a drought, for example, that compromises their long-term future."

look at 看
例句:Look at that truck!
看那辆大货车!
for example 比如
例句:For example, board games and games consoles understood?
比如说下棋、打游戏机之类的懂了吧?

2. This water can later be used to irrigate fields.

be used to 习惯于
例句:You will be used to working in the countryside.
你将习惯于在农村工作。

3. Aid groups say prevention costs less than treatment.

less than 少于
例句:Who thinks firm 1 should choose less than that?
谁认为公司1的选择该少于那个产量?