时间:2019-01-01 作者:英语课 分类:各国名人英文介绍


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Leonardo DiCaprio is a movie heartthrob and award-winning Hollywood actor. He shot to fame for his role in ‘Titanic’ in 1997. He has also starred in many other successful movies. DiCaprio is known for his environmentalist activities. He flies on commercial flights instead of private jets and has an eco-friendly house. He has inspired other celebrities 1 to take up environmental causes.


DiCaprio is an only child and was born in Los Angeles in 1974. He was named after Leonardo da Vinci because his pregnant mother was looking at a da Vinci painting in Italy when her baby first kicked. Leo's actor stepbrother inspired DiCaprio to take up acting 2. He began looking for an agent when he was twelve but was unsuccessful.


DiCaprio started his career making TV commercials. His break came in 1990 when he appeared in several shows. DiCaprio’s big breakthrough came in 1993 when he starred opposite Robert de Niro in ‘The Boy’s Life’. That same year he starred alongside Johnny Depp in ‘What's Eating Gilbert Grape’.  He was 19 and his performance earned him an Academy Award nomination 3.


DiCaprio’s career took off and he became a Hollywood star. His status was elevated to superstar after he acted in ‘Titanic’, which won 11 Oscars. He was the most searched for personality on the Internet and his popularity was dubbed 4 "Leo-mania”. He said later he would “never reach that state of popularity again”. Today, DiCaprio prefers to think of himself as an indie actor.



n.(尤指娱乐界的)名人( celebrity的名词复数 );名流;名声;名誉
  • He only invited A-list celebrities to his parties. 他只邀请头等名流参加他的聚会。
  • a TV chat show full of B-list celebrities 由众多二流人物参加的电视访谈节目
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。
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.给…起绰号( dub的过去式和过去分词 );把…称为;配音;复制
  • Mathematics was once dubbed the handmaiden of the sciences. 数学曾一度被视为各门科学的基础。
  • Is the movie dubbed or does it have subtitles? 这部电影是配音的还是打字幕的? 来自《简明英汉词典》
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accelerating grade
aeronautical communication station
allergy action code
allogonite
Ampliactil
aquae fontana
aquae gratianae (aix-les-bains)
borrowing costs
buffing paste
burst into the world
Calamus melanochrous
calder
cathodolyte
cedrin
centrelines
certificate of qualification
chill reducing inoculant
circumorbitals
classier
combinatorial arrangement
community development plan
complementarity of need
compound acetanilid powder
continuous wave nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometer
cushion matreial
dandelionlike
database handle
De-ionization Time
demethylations
discontinuous approximation
drainage tester
dysophylla
equivalent price
event probability
excessive lingual inclination
F-270
farepayers
farm household disease
flavorlessnesses
fumaruric acid
Gentiana pedata
geoponder
guttur
harmonic signal
hashes out
herring-buss
HTACS
Impatiens stenantha
indirect closed cycle
induction type wattmeter
inshipped
intercommunication panel
knar
last night
Litsea lancilimba
magnesite dolomite brick
Megaera
metal lot
minor planet
misery lit
Nabil'skiy Khrebet
nonopening
orgasmically
orthogonal latin cube
Ota's nevus
pan-americans
paramagnetic electron trap
pasteure crop
personal management analysis
pillaf
plate work
POL system
polyhydroxyphenol
priolepis boreus
Rolandian
round hole
runway observation
scubas
selective purchase
self-refutations
solay
southerners
spermatorrheas
standard scale
stationary solid bed
strengtheningly
sun glasses
supmmeatai triangle
Supramammillary
swab stick
sweatin
table lamps
Terråk
traffic on railroad flatcar
transduction(zinder & lederberg 1952)
truncated normal mean
tumourigenesis
under water reactor
unsportingness
vesuvius
water-tight work
yield class indication