VOA慢速英语:Studying Sentence Patterns to Improve Your Writing: Part One

短语讲解：

1.Many English learners have spent a lot of time studying the parts of speech: adjectives, nouns and verbs, for example.

a lot of 诸多; 许多的
例句：I am spending a lot of money and time on this boat, but it is worth it
我在这艘船上花了很多金钱和时间，但都很值得。

2.It comes from the short story “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place.”

come from 源自; 来自某处; 出生于
例句：He's just come from the countryside.
他刚从乡下来。

3.A phrase is a group of words that act as a unit. A noun phrase has an important noun, the headword noun, along with words and phrases that give more information about it.
 
along with 连同; 以及;
例句：The bill came along with the package.
单据和包裹一起来的。

4.The difference is that the sentence has added information, a noun that is the same as the subject of the sentence.

the same as 与…同样的; 无异;
例句：The price is the same as we offer last time.
价格与我们上次的报价相同。

5.Two of the sentences use conjunctions, but they still depend on the same basic pattern.

depend on 依赖; 相信; 信赖
例句：Our desired expenditures depend on our national income.
我们所需的支出取决于我们的国民收入。