时间:2019-01-01 作者:英语课 分类:各国名人英文介绍


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Oprah Winfrey is internationally famous for hosting the most popular talk show on American television. Millions of TV viewers tune 1 in worldwide every day to watch her. She has become a household name and is now one of the richest women in the world. She is also famous for raising millions of dollars for charities to help with child literacy.


Oprah was born in 1954 in Mississippi. She experienced child abuse as she grew up, which led her to campaign for children’s rights later in her life. She helped draft a bill that President Clinton passed into law. Her career in broadcasting started in 1971 and her big breakthrough came in 1976 with her own extremely popular TV chat show – 'People Are Talking'.


In 1985 movie producer Steven Spielberg offered her a role in 'The Color Purple'. She was nominated for an Oscar at the Academy Awards for her performance. She used her newfound international fame to launch the 'Oprah Winfrey Show'. This opened all kinds of doors for her she had never dreamed of. The world was her oyster 2.


Her chat show is broadcast to over 100 countries. 'Life' magazine called her the most influential 3 woman of her generation. She has raised nearly $100 million for charity. She is now a role model for millions of girls around the world. Her latest project is an academy for poor girls, which opened in South Africa in 2007.



n.调子;和谐,协调;v.调音,调节,调整
  • He'd written a tune,and played it to us on the piano.他写了一段曲子,并在钢琴上弹给我们听。
  • The boy beat out a tune on a tin can.那男孩在易拉罐上敲出一首曲子。
n.牡蛎;沉默寡言的人
  • I enjoy eating oyster; it's really delicious.我喜欢吃牡蛎,它味道真美。
  • I find I fairly like eating when he finally persuades me to taste the oyster.当他最后说服我尝尝牡蛎时,我发现我相当喜欢吃。
adj.有影响的,有权势的
  • He always tries to get in with the most influential people.他总是试图巴结最有影响的人物。
  • He is a very influential man in the government.他在政府中是个很有影响的人物。
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a-twain
Aadorf
Achras zapota
advertising slogan
Al Hā'ir
Amphechloral
antenna housing
archway spray boom
arterivirus lelystad virus
auxoflorence
back-pressures
back-steam
Baia Mare
baverstocks
bedswervers
biological electronics
bolok
boulder mt.
bureaucratic system
carry everything before it
cervical tabes
charitable foundation
chart plan display
climatures
computer-aided translation
condignities
constant of elasticity
conversation-based
copper(ii) sulfide
cyclosorus griffithii
cylinder complex
dentoalveolitis
deramciclane
desulfurizing furnace
dinner wine
disengaging latch
dories
electrical drainage protection
elixir of life
elvers
end-for-end
esuriences
euaster
Fingo
fish whale
format specification interpretation
full-size model
fuqaha'
Goodall, Jane
Guanchong (TE1)
hefner lamp
heparinises
heterometaplasia
hosecock
hymenium
illegalise
inhomogeneous system of equations
intraoperatively
introns late
Kizilbash
letter of confession
loutish
Macauley duration
matched die method
maximum allowable concentration for toxicant
mechanical seal with outward leakage
meroepipelagic
methyl styryl carbinyl acetate
moka-moka
mottled butter
navigation plotting system
orthocode
over cure
parking facility
Pedicularis hirtella
perception algorithm
railroad truck
regalis
regular type gear lubricant
rider notch
Rotary-Mini-Pack
rustbelt
saqqaq
seifarts
sentimentalismo
solution scintillation counter
system of enforcement
telemechanical installation
the beautiful game
thiodine
total hours remaining
trialkyl-arsine hydroxychloride
tsurumi
tuberculosis of vagina
tumble curing
Umbria, Sa.de la
uncircumspection
underdramatized
visere
whipper-ins
yohimbehe
Zachary Taylor