和谐英语

VOA慢速英语:China's Factories Break Air Pollution Rules

2017-06-12来源:VOA

短语讲解:

1.The findings raise questions about the ability of the local and central government to deal with polluters.

deal with 应付; 对待; 惠顾; 与…交易
例句:I have no way yet as to deal with such a complicated situation.
这样复杂的局面该怎么应付我还没谱儿呢。

2.In many cases, inspectors found polluters had restarted operations after being ordered to shut down.

shut down 停工; 完全关闭; 停下
例句:Smaller contractors had been forced to shut down
规模较小的承包商已被迫歇业。

3.The years of enforcement efforts, growing protests over smog and months of warnings about inspections have led to a question: Why do companies continue to violate the rules?

lead to 导致; 把…带到;
例句:Economic models often lead to the study of systems of equations.
经济模型经常导致对方程组的研究。

4.They probably will not enforce the rules unless they believe their jobs are at risk as a result, he said.

as a result 结果, 因此;
例句:As a result, the bad thing has been turned into a good one.
结果坏事变成了好事。