英语单词详解精选-例句英英解释7

59. Although Mathare has virtually no services like paved streets or
sanitation, it has a sizeable and growing number of classrooms. Not because
of the state—the slum’s half-million people have just four public schools—but because the private sector has moved in. Mathare boast s 120 private schools. （1）sanitation noun /sænɪ'teɪʃ(ə)n/ 区别于sensation /sen'seɪʃ(ə)n/知觉感觉；
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the process of keeping places free from dirt, infection, disease, etc., by removing waste, trash and garbage, by cleaning streets, etc.
Diseases can spread from poor sanitation.
When people gathered together and built large cities, many problems were raised concerning a proper water supply, a safe food supply, disposal of garbage and human wastes, keeping the city clean, and preventing the spread of disease. Most of these problems are related to sanitation.
(3)concern 除了指关心，还指“关于”
The bulk of the book concerns Sandy's two middle-aged children...
书中主要描写桑迪的两个已到中年的孩子。

Chapter 2 concerns itself with the methodological difficulties.
第二章讲的是研究方法上的难点。

（4）sizeable /ˈsaizəbl/
Sizeable means fairly large.
These polls give a very sizeable vote to the candidate of the M19 Movement.
这些民意测验显示，相当多的选票投给了“四·一九运动”的候选人。

（5）poll/pəʊl/ 民意测试区别于pool/puːl/水池
pay roll工资清单，员工清单payroll tax 工资税/'peɪrəʊl/
（6）slum/slʌm/=slumdog 区别于clumsy 笨拙的
an area of a city where poor people live and the buildings are in bad condition
a city slum
He grew up in the slums of New York.
（7）boast/bəʊst/区别于boost/buːst/促进增加推动
to express too much pride in yourself or in something you have, have done, or are connected to in some way
They boasted to their friends about their son's salary.
She boasted of having won five games in a row.
That score is nothing to boast about. [=you shouldn't be proud of that score; that score is not very good]
（8）in a row/rəʊ/连续地，成一长排地区别于raw /rɔː/生的following one after another
There are three blue houses in a row.
虽然玛萨瑞实际上连铺好的路和卫生设备都没有，但这里学校数量却很可观，且仍在不断增多。

可它们却不是国家建设的——这个50万人口的贫民窟只有4个公立学校——而是借私人部门之力建成。

现在，玛萨瑞因拥有120所私立学校而自豪。

60. This pattern is repeated across Africa, the Middle East and South Asia. The failure of the state to provide children with a decent education is leading to a burgeoning of private places, which can cost as little as $1 a week (see article).
（1）decent/'diːs(ə)nt/
①good enough but not the best : adequate or acceptable
decent education 良好的教育
Nearby is a village with a decent pub...
附近的村子里有一家还不错的酒馆。

He didn't get a decent explanation...
他没有得到一个像样的解释。

②得体的;适当的;正当的Decent is used to describe something which is morally correct or acceptable.
（2）burgeon/'bɜːdʒ(ə)n/
to grow or develop quickly
Plants burgeon from every available space...
只要有一点空隙，植物就会生根发芽。

...Japan's burgeoning satellite-TV industry.。