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
a spent force
absolute solvent power
aeronca
agonisings
applied microbiology
asarkina (asarkina) porcina porcina
backprinted
be worth notice
bottle rack
cacoproctia
captal
cardiomyocyte
Casamance River
castle-type manipulator
Catholicising
Chateau-Arnoux
Chelidae
church text
co-ordination isomorism
coarse wheel
coaster board
coffee urn
collinate
columbine
conditional section
crushing hazard
dead burning
dunce cap planks
exact distribution
extremal intensity
family rickettsiaceaes
father browns
feed water booster pump
fitness regime
fluxuations
fly into a temper
gaseous burst
gigaleurodes minahassai
gonson
grande, rio
haematobosca sanguinolenta
heparine
horizontal light beam adjusting screw
hurr
hydroisomerize
hypomagnesuria
i-god
ilmaiokite (ilmajokite)
IMO search and rescue system
iron(iii) orthotitanate
isentropic curve
isocsine-schmitz
Joint Photographic Expert Group
Kambojas
kink site
Krasnoperekops'k
Leddicon
Leftpondian
line bounce
low activity
lucky loser
magpie-lark
make a move on someone
middle-road
modified bud
monotectic reaction
niggra
noncom
noncongestion
on someone's case
on-off service
only child
optical laser
order of a group
proportional representations
pterophyllums
Quranophobia
rambus in-line memory module
remote action
retroaspect
rifleman birds
rupture of aorta
scrum pox
scrutinises
selka
sheet metal forming machines
shower sb with sth
silk-like fiber
six-ports
tela depurata
templon
tidies up
Twiston
unrestricted sums of squares
villeins
Vimperk
virolactia
volume specific heat
voluperes
word drive current
yonward