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VOA慢速英语:Campaigners are Calling for the Wrld's Richest Countries to End Tax Havens

2013-05-25来源:VOA

短语讲解:

1. Demonstrators recently protested outside the British Treasury to call on the world's richest countries to end so called tax havens.

call on 号召;要求
例句:We call on interested parties to meet in september.
我们呼吁相关各方于9月份召开会议。

2. I think a lot of people here in the U.K. and around the world are fed up with tax dodging.

feed up with 给某人以充分的或有营养的食物;使对…厌烦
例句:Really! I is feed up with your carelessness.
真是的!你这么粗心大意我已受够了。

3. This idea that, sort of, Western companies that are tax efficient are exploiting these places rather than bringing inward investment to them, I think, is a rather neo-imperialist old style way of looking at the world.

look at 看;评判
例句:Look at our verse today.
看我们今天的章节。