VOA慢速英语:Remittances Are Important But Distort the Economy

1. But those small amounts of money together add up to a lot, consider that there are about 200 million international migrants.

add up to 总计达
例句：The students in our class add up to 57.
我们班的学生总共有57人。

2. But he says there are problems with governments receiving large amounts of money.

amounts of 大量的
例句：A nuclear reactor generates prodigious amounts of heat. 
一座核反应堆能发出巨大的热量。

3. In turn, a country's exports can become more costly and less competitively.

in turn 依次;  轮流地
例句：The nurses take it in turn to do night duty. 
护士们轮流上夜班。

4. Economists say that private investors leave when contries are in conflict.

in conflict 有矛盾; 不一致
例句：Are the two roles in conflict?
这两个角色有冲突吗？