VOA慢速英语:Five Tips for Planning a Presentation

短语讲解：

1. Professor LeBeau says this can depend on the culture of your audience.

depend on 依赖; 相信
例句：Well, I must depend on providence. 
这么一来我只好指望上天了。 

2. “I think they prepare the presentation kind of as a stream of consciousness activity, then finally at the end of this process they figure out, oh, what do I want to say, what is the key point in this? And it ends up being at the end of the presentation.”

figure out 计算出; 弄明白;解决
例句：Slow down, and figure out how to solve your problems. 
慢慢来，找出解决问题的方法。 
end up（以…）结束; 最终成为[变得]; 最后处于
例句：We started with soup, and fruit to end up with. 
我们开始时喝汤，最后吃水果。 

3. They want to tell everything they know. But, the audience may have trouble understanding which information is related to the speaker’s main point.

relate to 涉及; 同…有…关系; 与…协调
例句：All these questions relate to philosophy. 
这些问题都跟哲学有关。