VOA慢速英语:Hillary Clinton Announces 2016 Campaign for President

短语讲解：

1. Senator Rubio is planning to announce his own run for the White House later this week.

run for v.竞选
例句：I'm planning to run for the school board. 
我打算竞选联合校董会董事。 

2. In countries that stone people to death for adultery and imprison people for adultery, this is the kind of thing you would think someone for women’s rights would be standing up against, instead of accepting thinly veiled bribes.

stand up 起立; 竖立
例句：Don't slouch! Stand up straight! 
别没精打采的! 起来站直了! 

3. Despite the email and foreign donations controversy, the former Secretary of State still leads all potential rivals according to the Washington Post-ABC News poll taken at the end of March.

according to 根据
例句：According to her, grandfather called at noon. 
据她说,祖父在中午打来电话。 

4. When Ms. Clinton ran for the presidency in 2008, she led then-Senator Obama by as many as 33 points in the same poll.

as many as 和…一样多; 不下于
例句：Take as many as yon please. 
你要取多少就取多少。