VOA慢速英语:US Groups Working to Aid Quake Victims in Haiti

例句：The pension includes an allowance of fifty pounds for traffic expenditures.
      年金中包括50镑交通费补贴。

      Government officials who travel on business are given traveling allowances.
       因公出差的政府官员享有出差补贴。

2.donate vt.vi.（尤指向慈善机构）捐赠，赠送

例句：He donated to cancer research.
      他捐款支持癌症的研究工作。

      They used to donate large sum of money to the Red Cross every year.
      他们过去每年都向红十字会捐献大笔的钱。

3.raise v.升起,举起,唤起,提高,使出现,使复活,提出,筹集；养育

例句：How were they going to raise enough money for it?
      他们怎样来为此筹集足够的资金呢?

4.predictable adj.可预言〔预报〕的,可预见的,可预料的

例句：a predictable disaster
      可以预言的灾祸

      Their actions follow a very predictable pattern.
      他们的行为遵循一个十分容易预测的模式。