VOA慢速英语:Why More College Students May Want to Consider a 'Gap Year'

短语讲解：

1.However, Stoke learned about a different way of doing things from an older student.

learn about 获得，学得; 得知有关…的消息
例句：I'm trying to learn about the other side of the picture.
我在设法了解事情的另一面。

2.“It just sounded like a really great idea to have a year off to figure out more of what I wanted to do in college and after,” she said.

figure out 想出; 解决; 计算出; 弄明白;
例句：It took them about one month to figure out how to start the equipment
他们花了大约1个月的时间才搞清楚如何启动设备。

3.In 2016, Malia Obama, daughter of then-president Barack Obama, received a lot of media attention when she made the same choice.

a lot of 诸多; 许多的
例句：Apart from the cost, it will take a lot of time.
除了费钱以外，还要花很多时间。

4. They agreed to let her live with them and paid her a small amount to help care for their children for seven months.

care for 照料; 喜欢; 愿意
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. She then used money she earned from a part-time job she had in high school as well as money from her parents to travel for two months.

as well as 也，又
例句：Boys as well as girls are taught cookery in school these days.
现在学校里男女学生都学烹饪。

6. These skills included how to be a leader and how to work with different kinds of people.

work with 与…在一起干; 从事…工作
例句：You cannot expect to like all the people you will work with
不要指望你会喜欢所有和你共事的人。

7. Knight says a gap year is only truly useful if it requires students to think about how their experiences have changed them and their ideas about the world.

think about 考虑…; 捉摸…; 对…有（某种观点）; 回想起
例句：I'll have a think about that
我会考虑考虑的。