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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acid-base balance
acute simple red cell aplastic anemia
Ajasse
allowable flooding
analysis by synthesis
arbalester
backdooring
basil mints
Bencao Yanyi, Augmented Materia Medica
big-city delinquency problems
Birmasil special alloy
boiler convection tube bank
bold-face type
Butea
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chemical burn of auricle
chemical mutagen
chestnut coal
continuous cooling rate
continuous pressure operation
controversial issue
copper mt.
curved diagram
Delta Aquarids
deudorix rapaloides
direct-coupled power amplifier tube
disyoke
earth atmospheric optics
electric railroad
encryption technique
ermight
escopet
forced high-elastic deformation
galvanic shock
genetic counselings
ground-plot
hamotzi
have a mind
Hazak
high-ability
hysterical spine
indecomposable channel
johnsonii
keep something in
Kermadec Is.
koupal
leadbellies
Leptasteria
Linea nuchalis superior
LOPAIR
Machito, Cayo
magazine creel
marginal production
millbrook
Mulchatna R.
occlusal guide plane
ocular counterrolling test
offshore well
omnifont reader
oxedrine
passive detector
pavonine
personal financial statement
Petit-Canal
pilwo
pole-vault stand
potential pacemaker
prediction of spontaneous combustion
pulse multiplex coding
quondary
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realsalt
residential care
rubbish bin
sags and crests
seal casinghousing
shostak
shotfiring cable tests
silica-rich
singing propeller
slim-waisted
slough-off
solar flare hazard
Spirillum litorale
sprung out
starter drive
succussions
sulpho-acid
sweatsoaked
tale teller
trackback
trustcards
Tsukumi
twiddle-twaddle
two-point bit
ultra-high-frequency wave
unberried
web grammar
welfare cheater
Yamato Seamount
Zaiwa