VOA慢速英语:American Teenagers Making a Difference

短语讲解：

1. Today on the show, we tell about some unusual young people who work to make a difference in the world.

make a difference 有影响; 起（重要）作用
例句：Does gender make a difference?
性别对善举有影响吗？

2. So prostate cancer is much more common but the men don’t want to talk about it.

talk about 讨论，谈论
例句：We talk about global warming.
我们谈到了全球变暖。

3. Without Google, Wikipedia, I would have never been able to learn all this stuff I needed for this project.

be able to 能，会; 能够
例句：How soon will china be able to clean up its air?
中国能在多短时间内将空气变清洁？

4. “I hope to see them employed in the developing nations such as Bangladesh and parts of China and India, especially as well as in parts of Africa, where these heavy metal and pesticides and other industrial effluents are a major problem.”

as well as 也，又
例句：You could talk to him as well as you could talk to many human beings.
你可以和他说话,就像和其他人说话一样.