VOA慢速英语:Should Offensive Place Names Be Changed?

短语讲解：

1. In 1960, the Winter Olympics took place in a ski area called Squaw Valley, California.

take place 发生，举行
例句：His graduation will never take place if he doesn't get to work.
如果他不下功夫，就永远不会毕业。

2. The term came to be used to describe laws that enforced racial separation in the United States from the 1870s -- after the Civil War -- to the 1950s and 1960s, when federal civil rights laws were passed that banned racial segregation.

be used to 习惯于，适用于
例句：Petroleum can be used to produce various chemical products.
石油可用于生产多种化学产品。

3. But, he says, “there is a difference between making it personal and the history that goes along with the place names that have been assigned historically.

go along with 一起去，赞同，附和
例句：I'll go along with you.
我将随同你一起去。

4. He wants the word “squaw” to be removed from maps.

remove from 从…中移开[拿走， 除掉]
例句：He is but one remove from me.
他和我仅隔着一代。

5. If it’s a family name, then perhaps the gentleman’s first name could be attached as well.

as well 也， 还有
例句：Of course, his bluster was directed against me as well.
当然，他指桑骂槐，矛头是针对我的。

6. “I guess maybe somewhere down the road 200 years from now, somebody will go along and clean up our work, too,” Iyall says with a laugh.

clean up 打扫
例句：We should clean up the past-due bills.
我们应该清理逾期票据。