VOA慢速英语:OECD: Access to Education Growing

短语讲解：

1. More people are able to receive higher education worldwide than in the past, but the amount of higher education is causing social and economic divisions in many countries.

be able to 能够
例句：Mould you be able to describe a typical day on the job? 
您能描述一下这个职位的日常工作内容吗？ 

2. But it also notes that education is reducing divisions between developed and developing countries.

between...and 在两者之间
例句：But arrangements were complicated by disagreements between and within the groups.
但是，因为这两个组织内部和彼此之间的分歧，安排工作将会十分复杂。

3. What is really interesting when you look at this data: the world is no longer divided between rich and well educated nations, and poor and badly educated ones.

look at 看
例句：I scrambled up the rock for a better look at the sea. 
为更好地看看大海,我爬上了一块礁石。