VOA常速英语:Rural Medical School Keeps Doctors in Small Towns

短语讲解：

1. According to Cathcart-Rake, students from rural areas typically go off to medical schools in Wichita and Kansas City.

go off爆炸，发射；动身，离开；去世
例句：I'd better have waited till the rain went off.
我当时要是等雨停再走就好了。

2. Their soul mate happens to be from a big city and we never see them agai.

happen to碰巧
例句：I happen to have the latest population statistics with me. 
我手头正好有最新的人口统计资料。

3. It's set up with interactive TV, so we have two monitors.

set up with提供…给…
例句：The new library can set me up with enough reading matter for a month at a time.
图书馆一次可为我提供足够看一个月的读物。

4. When students have a question, they raise their hand and speak into the microphone built into their desk.

build into使成为…的一部分
例句：He built those pieces of wood into a box.
他用那些木片做成一个箱子。

5. Hinrichsen grew up in Lecompton, Kansas, a town of about 600 people.

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。

6. It goes back to when I went to KU (Kansas University), so I went to a big school, and I'm getting back to the small feel.

get back找回, 取回
例句：I haven't got back the book I lent him.
我还没有收回我借给他的那本书。

7. Then each one will go on to a residency in a small community in the surrounding area.

go on to进入
例句：We should go on to the next item for time is short.
时间不多了, 我们应该谈下一项内容。

8. Cathcart-Rake expects several doctors will work out of a central clinic, like Clay Center, and see patients at satellite clinics spread out around the county, like spokes of a wheel.

spread out伸展; 延长; 分散
例句：The resources are spread out too thin.
资源分布得极为贫乏。

9.And it's gonna hopefully harder for them to break away from those roots and go to bigger cities.

break away与…决裂; 从…退出; 改掉; 放弃; 突然离开; 突然挣脱
例句：I broke away from the association ten years ago.
我10年前就脱离了那个团体。

10. And with the high cost of medical school, it's difficult for graduates to turn down those opportunities.

turn down拒绝
例句：His request for a rise was turned down.
他要求加薪, 被拒绝了。

11. If they don't practice primary care in an under-served area, they have to pay that back, with interest.

pay back偿还
例句：I am sure that he will pay back every cent he owes you.
我敢肯定他会分文不差地把欠款还给你。