VOA常速英语:Europe’s Economic Crisis Hits Developing Countries

短语讲解：

1. The European economic crisis is having an impact around the world, and causing concern that if it is not ended soon it could spread to a variety of countries that depend on Europe to buy their exports.

depend on依赖, 依靠
例句：All living things depend on the sun for their growth.
万物靠太阳生长。

2. Whether it is workers in India making auto parts, or those developing software, coffee plantation workers in Laos, or carpet weavers in Egypt - all have one thing in common.

in common共用，共有，共同
例句：We have something in common.
我们有许多相同之处。

3. Even a big economy like China is not immune from Europe’s problems. 

be immune from不受…的影响
例句：I am immune from the disease, for I had it once.
我对这病有免疫力, 因为我已得过一次了。

4. The port of Shanghai is a major gateway for the country’s products, but the government announced that its meteoric growth in exports slowed in September due to a drop in demand from Europe and the United States.

due to由于，因为
例句：Her absence is due to illness.
她因病缺席。

5. If it will escalate and Europe ends in a deep recession, certainly the impact in the rest of the world, not just on emerging countries, but also on the U.S. and other advanced countries, may be very, very adverse.

end in结果是，结局是，以…结束，以…告终；导致，终归…
例句：The match ended in a draw.
比赛结果是平局。