VOA慢速英语:National Parks Called America's Best Idea

1. One way the National Park Service is able to operate is through the fees it charges.

be able to 能够
例句：We hope you'll be able to attend.
我们希望你能够前来参加。

2. Scientific research of fisheries, climate change, pollution, rock formation and ice mountains takes place in the park.

take place 发生，举行
例句：Where were you? Where did it take place?
你当时在哪儿?在哪儿发生的?

3. His greatest assistance was preparing for the defense of Saratoga.

prepare for （使）为…作准备
例句：Prepare for some bad news.
坏消息来了，你准备好了吗？

4. For example, Fort Stevens is located in Washington, DC, off a busy road that goes between Maryland and Washington. During the American Civil War, Union soldiers protected Washington at Fort Stevens.

for example 例如
例句：We have, for example, adopted payment by installments.
比如说：我们采取分期付款。

5. It looks like a huge green table, a “mesa verde” in Spanish.

look like 看起来像
例句：What does it look like?
你觉得看起来像什么？

6. It was suspended in the middle of the rock wall.

in the middle of 在…的中间
例句：A man begging in the middle of the road.
一个男人正在马路中间乞讨。

7. Visitors can drive up to the top of Mesa Verde on a winding mountain road.

drive up 使…上升
例句：The flooding has helped drive up coal prices.
洪灾等因素推高了煤炭价格。

8. Some of the ruins in the Four Corners area belong to the earliest people who lived there.

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

9. Let me point out that we bears were here before you rangers, and we made out okay.

point out 指出
例句：I beg to point out that you are wrong.
恕我指出你错了。

10. But despite the rangers, Yogi Bear and his friend Boo-Boo manage to steal a lot of “pic-a-nic” baskets. Then again, as he says, he is smarter than the average bear.

a lot of 许多的；诸多
例句：What happened? We heard a lot of yelling.
发生了什么事？我们听到许多争吵声。