VOA常速英语:Elephant Leaves Alaska for Warmer Home

短语讲解：

1. Meanwhile, Maggie the Elephant is strolling about the 12-hectare grounds she shares with nine other pachyderms at an animal-rescue society’s compound in California’s Sierra Mountains, where it’s also chilly at the moment, but a degree or two above freezing at least.

share with与…分享〔合用〕
例句：I have to share the bathroom with the other tenants.
我只得和别的房客共用浴室。

2. The Alaska Zoo was pressured to send Maggie to a facility in warmer climes.

send to传送到 发送
例句：Please have this note sent to Mr. Harrison.
请派人把这张条子送给哈里森先生。

3. Finally in 2007, after TV game-show host Bob Barker donated $750,000 to help pay for her transfer and future care, the Alaska Zoo Board relented, and Maggie took a flight on a cargo plane to her new home in California.

pay for为…付钱
例句：I have to pay 150 dollars for the sewing machine.
我得花150美元买这台缝纫机。

4. Other northern zoos have also given up their elephants.

give up放弃;投降
例句：She will give up this journey.
她将放弃这次旅行。