VOA常速英语:Exhibit Salutes Children's Author Who Introduced Minority Characters

短语讲解：

1. A lot, it turns out.

turn out结果是, 原来是
例句：It turned out that he was never there.
原来他根本没去过那儿。

2. So that was a kind of prequel to pave the way for him to create Peter.

pave the way for为…铺平道路,为…做好准备
例句：His visit paved the way for an agreement.
他的访问为达成协议铺平了道路。

3. After going out in the snow for the first time, he returns home with a snowball in his pocket, expecting to still find it later on.

go out走出, 出去; 出国
例句：Don't go out after dark.
天黑后别往外跑。
later on以后
例句：Can we talk about it later on?
我们能否以后谈论这件事?

4. “We were trying to find reading material for them and naturally, as people of color, we were looking for books that would reflect their image or mirror back their image," Pinkney says.

look for 寻找
例句：She is looking for her lost child.
她正在寻找失去的孩子。

5. For people of color, all of a sudden there was this book that dealt with contemporary African-American life.

all of a sudden突然地, 突如其来地, 猛然地
例句：I was sitting quietly reading when all of a sudden a stone came hurling through the window.
我正安安静静地坐着看书, 突然从窗外飞来一块石头。
deal with论述, 涉及
例句：This book deals with life in the United States.
这本书谈的是美国的生活情况。

6. Keats - or Katz - who grew up poor, didn’t write about his own neighborhood or about Jewish children.

grow up长大, 成熟
例句：Tom wants to be a coach when he grows up.
汤姆长大后想当教练。

7. That absence didn’t make sense to him

make sense有道理；有意义；讲得通
例句：This sentence doesn't make any sense.
这个句子没有意义。