慢速英语:China Increases Investment in Australia

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1.  It is yet another sign that Australia’s once strong mining industry is weakening, as Chinese businesses look for new places to invest.

look for 寻找（某人或某物）
例句：I look for you everywhere continuously!
我一直在到处找你！

2. Last year, the Chinese invested $8.3 billion in Australia. The combination of real estate, leisure serves and infrastructure projects made up 79 percent of new Chinese business in the country.

make up 组成;补足
例句：Her beauty can't make up for her stupidity.
她的美丽不能弥补她的愚蠢。

3. “I think it is very important for our economy to be able to successfully move the structure away from mining, gas and power into sectors that have more, maybe, enduring long-term benefit to the broader economy, which I think real estate, which leisure and tourism and agri business (and) food offers, and that is exactly what is happening, so it is very good news.”

be able to 能够
例句：He is able to lift a very heavy weight.
他能举很重的份量。

4. They were protesting what they described as a “foreign invasion.”

described as 说成是
例句：Such motion is described as quasi-horizontal.
这样一种运动叫做准水平运动。