VOA常速英语:New Generation Revolutionizes Environmental Activism

短语讲解：

1. Environmental activists have relied on public pressure, boycotts and confrontation to advance their cause over the past few decades.

rely on信赖, 依赖,依靠
例句：Hong Kong's prosperity relies heavily on foreign businesses.
香港的繁荣在很大程度上依赖于外国商行。

2. Field created a natural space for the community where neighbors could come together and build a project to get access to food.

get access to走进，接近，能够利用某物
例句：Students must get access to good books.
学生必须有机会读到书。

3. Hunter grew up with environmental activism.

grow up长大, 成熟
例句：When the children grow up, the parents grow old.
等孩子长大时，父母都老了。

4. There is much more diversity going on than before.

go on过去, 消逝
例句：As time went on, many changes took place in our village.
随着时间的流逝, 我们村发生了很多变化。

5. I feel like the faces and the voices are not just of white, rich people.

feel like想要…
例句：Do you feel like going to a movie?
你想看电影吗?

6. In "The Next Eco-Warriors," Kenyan Kevin Ochieng, 24, tells of leading 5,000 young people in a march up Mt. Kenya to draw attention to the problem of climate change and demand government action against global warming.

draw attention to引起对…的注意
例句：The article was intended to draw attention to the situation in Cambodia.
这篇文章的意图是引起人们对柬埔寨形势的注意。

7. It was being hacked down and being logged to destruction, killing a lot of biodiversity in this region and destroying cultures that were there too.

hack down砍倒
例句：I'm going to hack the tree down.
我打算把那棵树砍倒。

8. One example is Elizabeth Redmond, who uses innovation to create a flooring system that you can walk on to generate power.

walk on继续走
例句：Let's walk on a bit further before we stop to eat.
咱们再往前走一点再停下来吃饭吧。

9. “For a long time I was really putting the idea out there and getting a lot of traction in the press and seeking to inspire and educate people about this possibility as the future of energy,” Redmond says.

put out出版; 发行; 发布
例句：The government will put out a new statement tomorrow.
政府将于明天发布一项新声明。

10. An example is using our traditional knowledge and combining it with maybe our western education.

combine with与…结合
例句：If your talent combines with diligence, you can excel in your pursuit.
如果你把天赋与勤奋结合起来, 你所追求的事业便会出类拔萃。