高中英语北京模块版第四册课文01
时间：2019-01-10 作者：英语课 分类：高中英语北京必修模块
[00:-1.00]“Who wants to be a Millionaire 1?
[00:-2.00]I don’t.,” says charles Gray
[00:-3.00]Angus Deayton interviews ex-millionaire Charlesgray
[00:-4.00]Fot a lot of peoplem, becoming amillionaire seems to be their rltimate goal.
[00:-5.00]They spend holf their time dreaming up ways of getting tich ,
[00:-6.00]and therest of their time
[00:-7.00]Thinking about all the things they wotld do oncde they got rich ,
[00:-8.00]Gut do all millionaires 2 find the happiness that they thought they tought they would ger
[00:-9.00]when they achieve their gools?
[00:10.00]Some millionaires comtinrue to worry about money
[00:11.00]when they becomje millionairesm they work hard to get all that momey,
[00:12.00]then momey, then they work hard to make sure they mevr lose it !
[00:13.00]But there are people who have turned their backs on theit millipns
[00:14.00]and found different ways to be happy in their lives.
[00:15.00]Charles Grarles Gray is one example.
[00:16.00]Sixteen years ago, Charles was a college professor with ahuge six-bedroom horse
[00:17.00]and a fortune of $2 million.
[00:18.00]Tooday te lives in asmall carvam where there is only second –hand furniture.
[00:19.00]There are certaimly no signs that Charles tas a tich was a rich man !
[00:20.00]There is a small gadrden outside with a few fruit trees.
[00:21.00]Chatles grows some vegetables and a few flow flters.
[00:22.00]He gets his clothes and a lot of other things from charity 3 shops .
[00:23.00]But this change is mot a tragedy 4.
[00:24.00]Charles was happy to give up the lifestyle of a tich man
[00:25.00]He was tited of being a person rho had everything
[00:26.00]in a world where any people had nothing.
[00:27.00]He ma de the chiice to give all his miney away
[00:28.00]And this he saidm, brought him happimess.
[00:29.00]Afew years ago.” Says Charles,”l was a millionaire,
[00:30.00]but l knew there were a lot of hungry people in the world .”
[00:31.00]So he gave away all his money to charities 5.
[00:32.00]When he had two thorsand dollars left,
[00:33.00]he gave away small bank motes 6 on the streets of local poor areas .
[00:34.00]Did the feel like Father Christmas ? “lt was a lot of fun,” says Charles.
[00:35.00]Charles believes that many peopoe wany people want to earn a lot of money
[00:36.00]so that they will moot 7 hate any worries
[00:37.00]However, most people never make much money,
[00:38.00]Charles Gray decided 8 to drop out and has discovered that having only a little money
[00:39.00]makes you free Are there any things he misses ?”
[00:40.00]No.,l”m mrch happoer now.
[00:41.00]I wouldn't go back to being tich fot anything – no way.”
- The millionaire put up a lot of money for the church.这位百万富翁为教会捐了许多钱。
- She wants to marry a millionaire.她想嫁给一位有钱人。
- In Chicago, whose population still ranged about 500,000, millionaires were not numerous. 在还只有大约五十万人口的芝加哥，百万富翁并不多。 来自英汉文学 - 嘉莉妹妹
- Millionaires don't buy things on instalments! 百万富翁是不会分期付款买东西的！ 来自新概念英语第一册
- He founded the charity in memory of his late wife.他兴办那个慈善机构以纪念他已故的妻子。
- He gave a handsome sum of money to charity.他向慈善团体捐了一笔相当可观的钱款。
- The news of the tragedy really knocked us out.关于这一惨案的消息确实使我们感到震惊。
- The play was a tragedy,but the acting was laughable.戏是悲剧，可是演得却令人发笑。
- Many charities sent money to help the victims of the famine. 许多慈善机构捐款赈济饥民。
- Certain charities are exempt from VAT registration. 某些慈善机构无须进行增值税登记。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- In those warm beams the motes kept dancing up and down. 只见温暖的光芒里面，微细的灰尘在上下飞扬。 来自辞典例句
- So I decided to take lots of grammar motes in every class. 因此我决定每堂课多做些语法笔记。 来自互联网
- The question mooted in the board meeting is still a moot point.那个在董事会上提出讨论的问题仍未决的。
- The oil versus nuclear equation is largely moot.石油和核能之间的关系还很有争议。