VOA常速英语:American Muslim Moves People From Fear to Friendship

短语讲解：

1. Sundas’ Palo Alto, California, home is frequently filled with crowds of people from assorted backgrounds and ethnic groups.

fill with (使)充〔挤〕满
例句：The hall was filled with persons welcoming him.
大厅里挤满了欢迎他的人。

2. They mingle in a welcoming atmosphere Sundas learned from her parents in Lahore, Pakistan.

mingle in结合进, 汇合进
例句：The thief mingled in the crowd.
小偷混入人群中。
learn from向…学习; 从…获得〔吸取〕
例句：Much can be learned from a good teacher.
从一位好老师那儿能学到很多东西。

3. “They did not treat a rich person or a poor person differently. If somebody walked in our house, regardless of who they were, they were considered guests and they were respected equally," Sundas says.

regardless of 不管, 不顾
例句：I shall go regardless of the weather.
无论天气好坏我都要去。

4. However, after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, demand for her services dried up.

dry up (使)枯竭；(使)停止；停止提供
例句：Her imagination seemed to have dried up.
她的想像力似乎已枯竭了。

5. So the best way to deal with this problem is to just really focus on providing first-hand contact of Muslims to my fellow Americans

deal with应付, 处理; 对待
例句：There are many difficulties to be dealt with when starting a new business.
开展一项新业务时, 有许多困难需要解决。

6. And while they’re afraid of just losing their identity, we’re telling them just mix up with your fellow Americans and fellow Americans are very afraid of Muslims.

mix up把(某人)搞糊涂; 分不清
例句：Instead of helping her, his explanation only mixed her up.
他的解释不但没帮她的忙, 反而把她搞糊涂了。

7. She often hosts large dinner parties at her home, believing that people who break bread together cannot be enemies.

break bread进餐
例句：He refused to break bread with his old enemy.
他拒绝与他昔日仇人共餐。

8. By the way she treats others, her attitude and the projects she works on takes from the depths of her faith tradition that peace and reconciliation and human dignity are not just abstractions but something that she is trying to make real in day-to-day life.

work on致力于…
例句：He has been working on a new novel for over a year now.
近一年多来, 他一直在写一部新小说。

9. Members of her mainstream mosque have become more willing to support her work, putting aside the traditional resistance to female leadership. People now turn to her if they need a voice for understanding and reconciliation, and she is happy to provide one.

put aside把...放在一边;撇开
例句：He put aside his work to spend more time with his son.
他把工作暂时搁下以便有更多时间陪儿子。
turn to求助于
例句：He turned to me for help.
他向我求助。

10. Sundas’ latest campaign - as she told her guests at a recent Iftar meal - calls on all Americans to open their doors on the first Sunday of each October, starting this year on October 2, to share a meal with a neighbor or someone they want to know better.

call on要求, 请求
例句：He called on his friends to help him.
他向朋友求助。