时间:2018-12-03 作者:英语课 分类:2012年ESL之就医和人际交往


英语课

 


Getting a Divorce 


Nicole: I’m really sorry to hear about you and Catherine getting a divorce. 


Tom: I appreciate it, but it was a long time coming. We’ve been heading toward divorce for years. I just hope it doesn’t get too messy. 


Nicole: I don’t mean to pry 1, but didn’t the two of you have a prenup? 


Tom: Yeah, but Catherine wants it set aside because our financial situation has changed so much since we got married. She also wants sole custody 2 of Sarah, alimony, and child support. 


Nicole: We live in a community property state, so that should simplify things, shouldn’t it? 


Tom: You’d think so, but the distribution of property may get complicated. I’m hoping we can settle everything amicably 3, but I’m ready for a fight, if it turns ugly. I’ve hired Dewey Cheatum. 


Nicole: Wow, you’re serious. He’s the most high-powered divorce attorney in this city. 


Tom: I’m not taking any chances with my assets or my daughter. If Catherine wants to play hardball, I’m coming out swinging! 


 


Script by Dr. Lucy Tse 



1 pry
vi.窥(刺)探,打听;vt.撬动(开,起)
  • He's always ready to pry into other people's business.他总爱探听别人的事。
  • We use an iron bar to pry open the box.我们用铁棍撬开箱子。
2 custody
n.监护,照看,羁押,拘留
  • He spent a week in custody on remand awaiting sentence.等候判决期间他被还押候审一个星期。
  • He was taken into custody immediately after the robbery.抢劫案发生后,他立即被押了起来。
3 amicably
adv.友善地
  • Steering according to the wind, he also framed his words more amicably. 他真会看风使舵,口吻也马上变得温和了。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
  • The couple parted amicably. 这对夫妻客气地分手了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
学英语单词
2-Formaldoxine-pyridinemethyliodide
accounts of general fixed assets group
activity analysis
arteritis tuberculosa
ascarylose
Atrypinella
back(ward)ware
Bergman
bruce price
butter (parchment) paper
calcium methanearsonate
canonistics
carrier signal
cinemaphotographers
cinnamyl chloride
combined turbine
continental rise
Cranfield Point
d'ambrosio
dissipated
distorted crystal
double-mirror technique
dual-purpose column
ecostone
epipteric
estimated tare
external mirror laser
facility for repair
find mentions
fixed and proportional spacing
frig around
full load power
gamma-ray gauge
gettin' played
goods of second order
goustrous
grizzler
image match
inferior ganglion
intra-day margin call
isoperimetry
lasguns
liemandt
local people's governments at different levels
low signal-noise ratio
low voltage immersion heater
low-level cave
main receiving station
marrying out
mesoepididymis
microchannels
mittal
Moklakan
Munshiganj District
mushroom cam follower
onesprute
outlet head loss
outprimary
panacen
perdeuteration
ponied
primal simplex method
pyranoid form
quasi-stationary phenomenon
radiation diagrams
rausa
reaudited
red cinchona
rehabilitees
relay actuation time
resistance pyrometer
revisitor
rod-like perthite
roofing millboard
root cause analysis
rotator
Saccharomyces coprogenus
salt heaving
San Francisco, P.de
Sebecusuchia
sedulone
slow-mag
soche
standby credit line
strike movement
Sumoto
symmetry value
synchronical
Tetsworth
thermostat sensing element
tofurky
tommy cooker
trade volume
tubulus rectus
vovak
wakabayashilite
wave encounter period
whale-bones
woolster
yaquina
yellowfin sole
zoologic, zoological