和谐英语

VOA慢速英语:US Gives Less Foreign Aid than Americans Think

2016-02-09来源:VOA

短语讲解:

1. They also debate whether the foreign aid budget is divided up in a smart and fair way.

divide up 分割
例句:We will divide up the money between the partners.
我们将分割股东的钱。

2. “The 1 percent of our budget we spend on all diplomacy and development is not what is driving our deficit,” Clinton said.

spend on 把…花在…
例句:How many hours per week do you want to spend on this work?
你每个星期想花多少时间在这个工作上?

3. “I would help them economically, even though we owe $19 trillion,” Trump said, referring to the current U.S. deficit.

refer to 参考; 指的是; 涉及
例句:He never referred to his sisters in his letters.
他在信里从未提到过他的姊妹。