VOA常速英语:New App Aims to Fight Poverty

be used to do被用来做某事
例句：Zip codes are used to facilitate mail service. 
邮政编码方便了邮递服务。 

2. It’s estimated three quarters of the world’s poor have access to mobile phones.

have access to接近（或进入）的方法（或权利、机会等）
例句：Students must have access to good books.
学生应该读得到好书。

3. The idea is to link software developers with communities and non-governmental organizations, or NGOs.

link with将…与…连接〔系〕在一起
例句：Einstein's theory links energy with mass and velocity of light.
爱因斯坦的理论把能量同质量和光速联系起来。

4. It’s made up of about 700 people under age 40 from business, civil society, government and academia.

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。

5. AppBridge will be initially aimed at those who own feature phones.

aim at (以…)瞄准; 针对, 以…为目标
例句：The visit was aimed at expanding the relations between the two countries.
访问的目的是扩展两国的关系。

6. The early apps are expected to provide skills training.

be expected to预计
例句：House prices are expected to perk up.
预计房价会上涨。

7. To get the app through their phone and to know that it’s not spam and it’s not going to be costing them additional funds or so forth.

get through穿过; 通过
例句：The passage is too narrow for cars to get through.
通道太窄, 汽车过不去。

8. Drakos wasn’t always a technology entrepreneur. She used to make her living as a cellist, performing at concerts around the world.

make one’s living谋生
例句：He worried about how to make his living.
他为如何谋生发愁。