VOA慢速英语:Play Looks Into Workers' Lives When Car Industry Failed

短语讲解：

1. This year, U.S. automakers are expected to sell a record number of vehicles.

be expected to 被期待做某事; 有望做某事; 期许
例句：I shall be expected to shell out the money for the party.
我将要支付这个集会的费用。

2. During that period, hundreds of thousands of workers lost their jobs as auto factories and their supply companies shrank or closed.

hundreds of thousands of 几十万，无数
例句：The city subway carries hundreds of thousands of passengers a day
市内的地下铁每天运载数十万乘客

3. Morriseau spoke about the play earlier this year to radio station WNYC.

speak about 谈论; 提到…
例句：I do not want to speak about it in public.
我不想当众说这件事。

4. “It’s exploring a group of workers, a family of workers, who sort of have to deal with the different impacts that this potential closing will have on them."

deal with 应付; 对待; 惠顾
例句：Imperical edicts could deal with very varied matters.
皇帝的诏节涉及各个方面的事物。

5. So she went home to talk to people about what it felt like to be in Detroit in 2008, when the auto industry was on the edge of collapse.

on the edge of 濒于，几乎，在边缘
例句：He sat on the edge of the table dangling his legs.
他坐在桌子边上,摆动着双腿。

6. He says Morisseau is able to create her characters with empathy.

be able to 能够
例句：The car would be unlikely to be able to make the turn.
汽车未必能作这样的转弯。

7. So, to go and see the integrity of these people and also how they feed off each other – they’re so, all different and they all need each other.

each other 互相，彼此
例句：Like charges repel each other,unlike charges attract.
同性电荷相斥,异性电荷相吸。