VOA慢速英语:United States Observes Black History Month

短语讲解：

1. Many freed slaves moved away from areas where slavery had been permitted.

move away 离开；搬到别处去住
例句：Some families would sell out for nearly nothing and move away.
有些人家几乎毫无理由地卖光东西然后搬走了。

2. Some came to the nation’s capital, Washington, DC, in search of a better life.

in search of 寻找
例句：He is in search of a better new life.
他在寻求更加美好的新生活。

3. He discovered the Syphaxes were an influential slave family in Arlington. He also learned that his great-great-great grandfather, Charles Syphax, belonged to the nation’s first president, George Washington.

belong to 归属
例句：They don't belong to anybody.
那些信息不属于任何人。

4. The government set up a camp for former slaves on land in Arlington, Virginia.

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

5. Syphax is working on a documentary about his family and on a new history museum next to Arlington Cemetery.

work on 影响；继续工作
例句：Does she work on the farm?
她在农场工作吗？

6. And she woke up in the middle of the night with these visions of Lincoln and battles and marching troops and wrote this rather remarkable series of verses.

wake up 醒来
例句：I wake up at half past six.
我6点半醒来。

7. Many of us got fat because the candy was there, and every time we walked by the table we picked up a little piece and eat it.

pick up 捡起
例句：She bent down to pick up her glove.
她俯身捡起了手套。

8. He probably ate too much candy and the sugar knocked him out.

knock out 击倒；淘汰
例句：Didn't you knock out that bum once?
你不是把那笨蛋给击倒了吗？

9. And you think of a person like Ray Freeman, our colleague, as always being exactly like he was the day he walked out of here, and now he’s gone.

walk out 罢工；走出去
例句：I had half a mind to walk out there and then.
当时我真想立即退场。