时间:2019-01-07 作者:英语课 分类:万花筒2011年


英语课

 Elizabeth Taylor first burst onto the big screen at the age of 10 with the lead role in "Lassie, Come Home". After a string of girl-next-door role, she showed her first hint of dramatic promise in "A Place in the Sun". She confirmed that potential in 1958 as Maggie in "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof two years later, she won an Oscar for playing a call girl in "Butterfield 8". The following year, she was paid one million to star in the title role of "Cleopatra". What some say is the role for what she would be remembered. In 1967, Oscar came calling again after her portrayal 1 of an alcoholic 2 Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf". 


 
But her image as a pure violet-eyed girl was overshadowed by unending series of headlines about her eight marriages, weight and addictions 3
 
Taylor was only 18 when she married 21-year-old hotel heir Conrad Nicky Hilton. And that first marriage only lasted 205 days. One year later, she wedded 4 British actor Michael Wilding who was twice her age. The union lasted four years and produced two children. Her tore love affair with actor Richard Burton made the most headlines also marked her fifth and sixth marriages. After divorcing Burton for a second time, Taylor did not stay single for long. In 1976, she married former Navy Secretary John Warner. Life in Washington did not appeal to Taylor and they divorced in 1982. "I'm 60 years old today." Over the course of 7 years, Taylor innate 5 rehabs three times. During her stay at the Betty Ford 6 Clinic in 1990, she met her seventh husband, a construction worker. Despite many columns the union is mismatched, the marriage lasted for over four years. Taylor was especially closed to pop star Michael Jackson, saying she gravitated toward him because we were very much alike; we both had horrible childhoods. One of her last public appearances was at his funeral in 2009. Near the end of her life, she devoted 7 her time to AIDS-related charities and fund raising. Taylor is 79 years old. 

n.饰演;描画
  • His novel is a vivid portrayal of life in a mining community.他的小说生动地描绘了矿区的生活。
  • The portrayal of the characters in the novel is lifelike.该书中的人物写得有血有肉。
adj.(含)酒精的,由酒精引起的;n.酗酒者
  • The alcoholic strength of brandy far exceeds that of wine.白兰地的酒精浓度远远超过葡萄酒。
  • Alcoholic drinks act as a poison to a child.酒精饮料对小孩犹如毒药。
瘾( addiction的名词复数 ); 吸毒成瘾; 沉溺; 癖好
  • He has removed the stigma of drug addictions. 他已经洗去吸毒的污点了。
  • Intelligent people are good at using reason to control excessive addictions. 智慧的人善于用理性来控制过度的嗜欲。
adj.正式结婚的;渴望…的,执著于…的v.嫁,娶,(与…)结婚( wed的过去式和过去分词 )
  • She's wedded to her job. 她专心致志于工作。
  • I was invited over by the newly wedded couple for a meal. 我被那对新婚夫妇请去吃饭。 来自《简明英汉词典》
adj.天生的,固有的,天赋的
  • You obviously have an innate talent for music.你显然有天生的音乐才能。
  • Correct ideas are not innate in the mind.人的正确思想不是自己头脑中固有的。
n.浅滩,水浅可涉处;v.涉水,涉过
  • They were guarding the bridge,so we forded the river.他们驻守在那座桥上,所以我们只能涉水过河。
  • If you decide to ford a stream,be extremely careful.如果已决定要涉过小溪,必须极度小心。
adj.忠诚的,忠实的,热心的,献身于...的
  • He devoted his life to the educational cause of the motherland.他为祖国的教育事业贡献了一生。
  • We devoted a lengthy and full discussion to this topic.我们对这个题目进行了长时间的充分讨论。
学英语单词
aerodynamic damping
aerodynamic investigation
airship shed
anasthol
Bab ed-Din
backpackable
bathymetric measurement
beft
boiler steaming capacity
bring A and B together
brittleness test
catalytic agent
characteristic entity
club deposit
combinatory integral transmission
compass plants
connotatively
consistance
controlroom
convexness
copleys
crab boils
current requirement for cathodic protection
Daneborg
defense avionics system (das)
digital data modulation system
do a
dropping dead
electromyographical
energy pyramid
enses
Eurytrema pancreaticum
feed wheel
fever with cold limbs
file space management scheme
fire alert
flap scheduling
freedom from bias
fryable
gain form trade
gelees
getting-ups
grain sizing machine
graucob
Hensing's fold
hypohedonia
inorganography
James Byron Dean
jobfish
jucundity
kozo
loop forming element
louro
loxoconcha achloropsia
m. orbitalis
mnemotechnics
naval review
non intrusive means
object complements
obtrite
oesypum
old red
old school ties
overgassing
Oxkutzcab
perastatate
Peucedanum morisonii
plains pocket gophers
platinum-platinum nickel couple
polar-wandering curve
polishing abrasive
Polygonum platyphyllum
positive displacement engine
primary photocurrent
proofnesses
psychological impact of cost control
Ranunculus japonucus
rechewed
regenerated nodule
rescue squad
sensurrounds
singlecast
solar-energy evaporator
source positioning
split-field analyser
standard stimulus
stratiform cloud
surface harmonics
symplastic growth
tape feed switch
television photograph cable winch
temperature scales
terrain details
thenoic acid
three-putts
tobacco moths
total waste
tumin
verdiers
votmen
warinesses
web journalist