和谐英语

VOA慢速英语:Internet Pioneers Share 1.5 million Queen Elizabeth Engineering Prize

2013-07-23来源:VOA

短语讲解:

1. Robert Kahn said the Internet is so much a part of people's lives, they don't really think about it.

think about 考虑…
例句:Think about what you did!
想想你做了什么!

2. To me, it's all about the protocols for making things work together - to link together networks, computers, application programs - which a lot of people didn't think was a particularly good idea when we first started out on it.

work together 同事;搭档;合作
例句:This meant departments had to work together.
这样就意味着各个部门协调合作。

3. They were joined by students in Swaziland who took part in the event by way of the Internet.

take part in 参加
例句:Nearly one in four children do not take part in any organised sport, new research shows.
最新研究结果表明,近1/4的孩子不参加任何体育活动。

4.  And we are going to have to learn, as a society, which things are acceptable and which things are not, what we should prohibit, and what things we should punish people for doing."

be going to 要,会
例句:They tend to be going to school.
他们都将去上学。