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VOA慢速英语:Woman Turns Her Nightmare into a Dream for Others
短语讲解:
1. His dedicated his life to finding and helping people who were in trouble.
in trouble 处于不幸中,在监禁中
例句:I didn't think to land myself in trouble.
我没想到会使自己陷入困境。
2. "So when I set up this organization, I wanted it to take on his commitment to rescuing people on a large basis, and that's why I started with those children who were so destitute and the people living in poverty."
set up 建立; 准备
例句:They set up many branches throughout the country.
他们在全国建立好多分公司。
3. FXB began in 1990 in Uganda. It started by helping children whose parents had died of HIV/AIDS.
die of 死于(疾病、过度悲伤等)
例句:Nowadays many people die of cancer.
现在有很多人死于癌症。
4. FXB invested in the children and the adults who cared for them so they could move out of poverty.
care for 照料; 喜欢;
例句:I wonder whether they will care for us all to go there.
我不知道他们是否喜欢我们都到那儿去。
5. Eighty to 100 families at a time are brought into the program – or "village," as it is called – for three years.
at a time 依次, 逐一, 每次
例句:Life passes, with us all, a day at a time.
我们大家的日子都一天一天地过去。
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