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VOA慢速英语:Chocolate Improves Memory and Heart Health

2014-12-24来源:VOA

短语讲解:

1. Can eating chocolate cake for breakfast, lunch and dinner be good for your heart?

be good for 值得,有效; 利于
例句:Mild depression may be good for work.
轻微的沮丧可能对工作有好处。

2. A company that makes chocolate helped to pay for the study.

pay for 赔偿; 为…付钱
例句:I' ll give you double pay for working overtime. 
你加班我付你双倍工钱。 

3. The study subjects will be divided into two groups and will take two pills a day.

divide into 分成,分为
例句:We progressively divide this population into classes and sub-classes. 
我们将这些人口逐步划分为阶层和次阶层。 

4. “The amount of chocolate that it would take in order to have this amount of cocoa flavanols would be more than ten times the amount that people would ordinarily eat.”

in order to 为了…
例句:Let us risk seeming repetitious explanation, in order to drive it home. 
为了便于理解,有必要作进一步说明。