VOA慢速英语:New York Celebrates the Arts of Cambodia

短语讲解：

1. There have been musical performances, films, art shows and dance by more than 120 visiting Cambodian artists.

more than 不止
例句：We have more than a car!
我们可不止有辆车！

2. You know, a lot of our community members talk about how, you know, they just want to live to die, because they’ve suffered so much.

a lot of 许多的；诸多
例句：I subscribed to a lot of periodicals last year.
去年我订了诸多期刊。

3. It tells about how some rich New Yorkers lived in the “Roaring Twenties.

tell about 谈及；讲述
例句：What would he tell about now?
他现在会说些什么？

4. For Jay Gatsby and his friends, life was full of music, parties and alcohol -- as well as cheating, lies and spiritual emptiness.

as well as 也，又
例句：Your mental as well as physical health in that space.
你的精神以及身体健康的空间。

5. The book has been made into a film at least twice before -- a 1926 silent film based on a stage play and a famous version released in 1974 that starred Robert Redford as Gatsby.

at least 至少
例句：Can we at least try?
我们至少试试看吧？

6. I went to the piano and started sussing (working) out the chords, and then I came up with the bass pattern – boom, boom, boom-boom- boom, boom…”

come up with 追赶上；比得上
例句：I'll come up with you soon.
我很快会赶上你的。