时间:2018-12-11 作者:英语课 分类:访谈录2008


英语课

The ship was brand new and so was Millvina Dean, just two months old, the youngest passenger on the Titanic 1.


 "And this is your mother and you."


 "Yeah."


 But 96 years old Millvina, the last living Titanic survivor 2 needs the luck now she had then.


 "I was too small, so I was put in the sack."


 "In a sack."


 "Yep, and put overboard into the lifeboat."


 Mother and daughter were saved, so was her brother. Her father perished. But now Millvina needs another rescue, like a lot of people, she's going broke.


 "I don't know have how much you’ll think I pay here a month, have a guess."


 "I wouldn't know, well, ur... 500 pounds."


 "3000."


 About 5000 dollars for her keep at this nursing home. Millvina is having to auction 3 off her Titanic souvenirs, the suitcase given to her family in New York, the letter offering compensation from the Titanic victim’s fund, a few prints. But another rescue may be at hand. As her story spread, people decided 4 to help. A printer in Mclean Virginia.


 "I really felt that this was a, this was something that could really pay lasting 5 tribute to all the people who died on the Titanic."


 "I would have no, what's supposed [to be] the word, mat...materialistic 6, (right.) not the slightest bit, I'm a nail." Millvina Dean, a survivor then, a survivor now. Mark Phillips, CBS News, Southampton, England.



1 titanic
adj.巨人的,庞大的,强大的
  • We have been making titanic effort to achieve our purpose.我们一直在作极大的努力,以达到我们的目的。
  • The island was created by titanic powers and they are still at work today.台湾岛是由一个至今仍然在运作的巨大力量塑造出来的。
2 survivor
n.生存者,残存者,幸存者
  • The sole survivor of the crash was an infant.这次撞车的惟一幸存者是一个婴儿。
  • There was only one survivor of the plane crash.这次飞机失事中只有一名幸存者。
3 auction
n.拍卖;拍卖会;vt.拍卖
  • They've put the contents of their house up for auction.他们把房子里的东西全都拿去拍卖了。
  • They bought a new minibus with the proceeds from the auction.他们用拍卖得来的钱买了一辆新面包车。
4 decided
adj.决定了的,坚决的;明显的,明确的
  • This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
  • There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。
5 lasting
adj.永久的,永恒的;vbl.持续,维持
  • The lasting war debased the value of the dollar.持久的战争使美元贬值。
  • We hope for a lasting settlement of all these troubles.我们希望这些纠纷能获得永久的解决。
6 materialistic
a.唯物主义的,物质享乐主义的
  • She made him both soft and materialistic. 她把他变成女性化而又实际化。
  • Materialistic dialectics is an important part of constituting Marxism. 唯物辩证法是马克思主义的重要组成部分。
学英语单词
acesulfame-k
additional facilities
Agassiz orogeny
all-mighty
antivari (bar)
astro-boffins
automatic zero set
basic flowchart
bed-wetting
blennerhassett i.
Burn-Quel
Champ, Ostrov
Charles M.Russell National Wildlife Refuge
chip level
clock-unit
conventional ignition system
coursemate
Craigleith stone
dangerous weapon
deep-brown
diaminopyrimidine
differential plunger pump
dunce cap dunnage
Dzierzgow
earn one's keep
eighty-column mind
empathizes
epineuriums
euphemitid
evermoving
exploratory trip
fenyan
Fernando de Noronha Abyssal Plain
find much fault with
first content
Franklin glasses
frequency double laser
front computer
genus Olea
genus Petrocoptis
gnathal
goes at it
goodbye to sth
gyromagnetic coefficient of proton
herpetophobia
hydraulic type
image scintillation
input data instruction
jig welding
job title
lecture-style
liagora albicans
losing team
make a profit on
Marc Chagall
mesochoroidea
microclinite
normal working conditions
not proven
optical absorption spectrum
out of bread
outperformances
over our head
overnight delivery
OWP
parietogram
Pars occlusa
pepe seal
periodic intermittent working
petallings
plagiopatagium
popcorn popper
prompt gamma-ray analysis
puzzlists
quenched glass
Rasmussen syndrome
rissoes
sapanthrakon
schoona
secondary adaptation
simple debentures
slave gyro control system
sodium arsonoacetate
soilds flow
spider hole
standard cipher
Staphylea forrestii
subpolar convergence
sudies
sulfatase deficiency
supervive
Svaerholthalvoya
testicle torsion
tox(o)-
toxoplasmacidal
twostroke engine
unconstituted
valvula maxillaris
vcas
voltage failure
zazen
zonked-out