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VOA常速英语:Obama Seeks to Contain College Costs
1. President Barack Obama is calling for reforms in the way Americans pay for a college education
call for要求
例句:The letter calls for an investigation of the facts.
来信要求对这些事实进行调查。
pay for为…付钱
例句:How much did you pay for the book?
那本书你付了多少钱?
2. That forces students like you to take out more loans and rack up more debt
take out获取, 办理
例句:Mary and John took out a marriage license.
玛丽和约翰取得一份结婚证书。
rack up在比赛中获(胜), 得(分);持续增加
例句:The home team racked up fifty points in the football game.
主队在那次足球赛中得到五十分。
3. “We cannot just keep on subsidizing skyrocketing tuition," Obama stated.
keep on继续
例句:They kept on working after dark.
天黑了他们还继续工作。
4. If tuition is going up faster than inflation, faster than even health care is going up, no matter how much we subsidize it, sooner or later, we are going to run out of money.
go up上升, 上涨, 提高, 增加, 增高
例句:The goods have gone up in price.
这些商品的价格已经上涨。
run out用完, 耗尽
例句:Our food soon ran out.
我们的粮食很快就吃完了。
5. “We are putting colleges on notice: You cannot assume that you will just jack up tuition every single year. If you cannot stop tuition from going up, then the funding you get from taxpayers each year will go down," he said.
put on穿上, 戴上; 把…放在…上
例句:Put the plates gently on the table, they are very delicate.
把碟子轻轻放在桌上, 这些碟子非常易碎。
stop from阻止某事发生
例句:Eyebrows stop sweat from coming down into the eyes.
眉毛挡住汗水使其不能流进眼睛。
6. “We are telling the states: If you can find new ways to bring down the costs of college and make it easier for more students to graduate, we will help you do it,” Obama said.
bring down降(价)
例句:A nationwide good harvest soon brought down the price of rice.
全国性的大丰收很快使米价回跌了。
7. An NBC News-Wall Street Journal survey shows that 48 percent of Americans think Obama is doing a good job, compared with 46 percent who disapprove.
compare with (把…)与…相比
例句:Compared with him, I am a bungler.
与他相比,我只能算是一个笨拙的人。
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