时间:2019-01-01 作者:英语课 分类:各国名人英文介绍


英语课

Julia Roberts (born 1967) is a glamorous 1 American movie star. She shot to fame in the early 1990s after starring in the romantic comedy ‘Pretty Woman’. She won an Oscar for best actress in 2001 for her role in ‘Erin Brockovich’. She is one of the highest-paid actresses in the world. In 2007, she was estimated to be worth $140 million.


Roberts was born in Atlanta. Her father was a vacuum cleaner salesman and her mother was a secretary. They were both one-time actors. Julia wanted to follow her parents into acting 2. After graduating from high school, she headed to New York to pursue a career in acting. She signed with a modeling agency and enrolled 3 in acting classes.


Roberts made her film debut 4 in a role opposite her brother. She had just two words to say. Her television appearances include a sketch 5 with Elmo on Sesame Street. Roberts’ big break came with her performance in the film ‘Mystic Pizza’ in 1988. She caught the attention of Hollywood. The following year she starred in ‘Steel Magnolias’ and received her first Oscar nomination 6.


Her role in ‘Pretty Woman’ in 1990 earned her worldwide acclaim 7 and movie offers came pouring in. She was hot property in Hollywood and starred in many blockbusters. Her films have earned box office receipts of over US$2 billion, making her the most profitable female actor ever. She is also the first actress to appear on the front cover of ‘Vogue’.



adj.富有魅力的;美丽动人的;令人向往的
  • The south coast is less glamorous but full of clean and attractive hotels.南海岸魅力稍逊,但却有很多干净漂亮的宾馆。
  • It is hard work and not a glamorous job as portrayed by the media.这是份苦差,并非像媒体描绘的那般令人向往。
n.演戏,行为,假装;adj.代理的,临时的,演出用的
  • Ignore her,she's just acting.别理她,她只是假装的。
  • During the seventies,her acting career was in eclipse.在七十年代,她的表演生涯黯然失色。
adj.入学登记了的v.[亦作enrol]( enroll的过去式和过去分词 );登记,招收,使入伍(或入会、入学等),参加,成为成员;记入名册;卷起,包起
  • They have been studying hard from the moment they enrolled. 从入学时起,他们就一直努力学习。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • He enrolled with an employment agency for a teaching position. 他在职业介绍所登了记以谋求一个教师的职位。 来自《简明英汉词典》
n.首次演出,初次露面
  • That same year he made his Broadway debut, playing a suave radio journalist.在那同一年里,他初次在百老汇登台,扮演一个温文而雅的电台记者。
  • The actress made her debut in the new comedy.这位演员在那出新喜剧中首次登台演出。
n.草图;梗概;素描;v.素描;概述
  • My sister often goes into the country to sketch. 我姐姐常到乡间去写生。
  • I will send you a slight sketch of the house.我将给你寄去房屋的草图。
n.提名,任命,提名权
  • John is favourite to get the nomination for club president.约翰最有希望被提名为俱乐部主席。
  • Few people pronounced for his nomination.很少人表示赞成他的提名。
v.向…欢呼,公认;n.欢呼,喝彩,称赞
  • He was welcomed with great acclaim.他受到十分热烈的欢迎。
  • His achievements earned him the acclaim of the scientific community.他的成就赢得了科学界的赞誉。
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absolute values
absolvant
affiliation proceedings
ascariases
authority level
automatic scraper
bond secured by leased property
bottom-up testing
Chinese editingphototypesetting system
clear-water reservoir
color and lustre of nail matrix
colored weather radar (cwr)
compound semiconductor solar cell
condensed milks
control analyses
draft guage
drug interactions
duson
electrocuting
encrusts
essey
estate of the realm
facsimile machine
falsy
field effect transistor circuit
fine-motion screw
first in system first served rule
fixed palettes
francisco de goyas
Gasselte
general claim agent
Graves' disease
Gries P.
Guadalimar, R.
haymeadows
heart trefoil
hierarchic sequence
holes in one
hoorahs
hot water jacket
Ilex pedunculosa
initial virtual memory
ISDC
Kariaku
lex patriae
Ludlovian
machine-made
Major-Gesic
marqueteries
minutescooking
nanocurie
natural language understanding and translation
nightguards
nipa fruticanss
nonliterate
overvoltage threshold
papyrian
passed-master
permalloys
perturbation of linear operator
peter-san
pharopodium
photo conductive surface
photonucleation
post-traumatic
pre - school playgroup
presenta
priroda
public involvement
quasivacuum
relief piston
riccio
rotary disk meter
Rothesay
servo system control
shortwave length magnetic recording
silicofluoride process
sound-detecting and ranging
southness
space crew enter spacecraft
space economics
standard pressure level
standard type single-pull hatch cover
stasium
subnumerations
subway system
superhuge
Temiskaming Shores
the ides of march
to her finger tips
torque viscosity
transonic velocity
trotlines
underwater adhesive
unmirthfully
untouchabilities
upper berths
US Post Office
Viburnum dalzielii
visayan is. (visayas inseln)
Wangsan-dong
waste rock pile