VOA慢速英语:President Obama Signs a New Farm Bill into Law

短语讲解：

1. And it saves taxpayers hard-earned dollars by making sure that we only support farmers when disaster strikes or prices drop," the president said.

make sure 把事情弄清楚
例句：How do you make sure this is clear?
你怎么能确定这足够明确呢？

2. It raises the lowest price growers will be paid for some crops.

pay for 赔偿; 为…付钱
例句：How will you pay for your event?
你打算如何支付此次活动的费用？

3. "That drives down world prices and it's a little tougher for farmers in developing countries to compete with that," Sumner said.

compete with 与…抗争
例句：Africa will compete with asia.
非洲将与亚洲展开竞争。

4. "We're pretty confident that it would take an extremely bad situation for us to even come close to violating those particular limits, something the United States hasn't come close to in years," said Dale Moore.

close to 离…近; 与…关系密切
例句：Today it is close to zero.
当今，利率接近于零。

5. Aid groups will be able to spend more of the assistance they receive to buy food from markets near where it will be used, earlier rules forced aid groups to buy food from American farmers.

be able to 能，会; 能够
例句：You should be able to converse comfortably.
你应该能够舒服地进行谈话。

6. Eric Munoz works for the aid group Oxfam America.

work for 受雇于; 为…而工作
例句：Two of his five children already work for his group.
他的两个五个孩子已经为他的组织工作。