VOA常速英语:Report: Migrants Often Scapegoats for Society’s Problems

短语讲解：

1. A new report says few areas of public policy are subject to greater bias, polarization and political debate than migration.

be subject to受支配,从属于,可以…的,常遭受…
例句：The arrangements are subject to change.
这些安排可能更改。

2. Nobody can deny that migration will play a bigger even role in the future.

play a role in在……扮演一个角色，在某方面起作用
例句：The headmaster plays an important role in the good running of a school.
办好一所学校, 校长起重要作用。

3. Jumbe said the media are partly to blame for the misrepresentation.

blame for因…怪罪, 责怪(某人)
例句：He blamed his brother for breaking the window.
他责备他兄弟打破了窗玻璃。

4. So this is a huge misrepresentation because it does not look at all sides of migration.

look at评判; 审视
例句：The difficulty can now be looked at in a different light.
现在可以用不同的角度来看这个困难。

5. In addition, migrants send billions of dollars to their home countries in the form of remittances.

in the form of 用…的形式
例句：Water vapor is water in the form of a gas.
水蒸气是气态的水。

6. In the United States, for example, an opinion poll indicated the public believed migrants made up 39 percent of the population.

make up组成, 构成
例句：The audience was made up of very young children.
观众由小孩子们组成。