和谐英语

VOA慢速英语:Rare Pictures Capture Native Americans in Late 1800s

2015-09-06来源:VOA

短语讲解:

1. He developed an interest in the American West after he went there in 1895 to recover from typhoid fever.

recover from 从…收回[取回]; 恢复
例句:As soon as I recover from my nervous breakdown.
只等我从神经崩溃中恢复过来。

2. While there, he came into contact with the Blackfoot community in northwestern Montana, and began a life-long interest in them.

come into contact with 接触到,和…接触,碰到; 打交道
例句:This gave us a chance to come into contact with workers and peasants.
这给了我们机会来接近工农。

3. In McClintock’s case, the pictures represent an idealized version of an endangered culture at the beginning of the modern age.

at the beginning of 在…之初
例句:The tune was composed at the beginning of the War of Liberation.
这支曲子是在解放战争初期谱写的。