VOA慢速英语:Rosetta Project Aims to Save Languages for Future Generations

短语讲解：

1. We also hear about a creative way one American school is making English classes more available to immigrants.

hear about 得悉，听说
例句：Unfortunately, mexicans hear about them all the time.
不幸的是，墨西哥人常常听说此类事件。

2. “A single parallel text, a description, a map of where it’s from, these types of things that just give you enough that you can compare to another language that you know or have studied or scholars have figured out, you can start pulling parallels between the two and reconstruct the basics of a language.”

compare to 把…比作， 喻为
例句：They have nothing to compare to.
没有东西让他们来比较。

3. “They’re spoken by thousands of people or even smaller-sized groups and a lot of those languages are in remote parts of the world. They haven’t been well documented.”

a lot of 许多的；诸多
例句：I move a lot of single females.
我帮许多单身女性搬过家。

4. Many refugees in Nashville live in apartment buildings 20 kilometers away from the Foreign Language Institute.

away from 远离；相距
例句：You stay away from me!
你离我远点！

5. He came up with the character of Edward Sharpe when he was dealing with a drug addiction, and used it as inspiration for the band.

come up with 追赶上；比得上；想出
例句：We think we've come up with a good plan.
我们认为我们已经提出一项不错的计划。

6. Mike Osbourne and Mike O’Sullivan contributed to this report.

contribute to 捐献；促成 ；投稿；有助于
例句：Intense competition may contribute to economic progress.
激烈竞争可能促进经济的发展。