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 growler
absolute reference system
adenosinetriphosphatases
after-sail
Agents Act
animatics
backward compliments
banker's shares
barbetta
base-line
be crippled
bellows expansion seal
biological meteorology
black currant
box piles
Bufotalis
bullet-riddled
capacity discharge reading
Carrez's butter
cercosporella brassicae (fautrey et roumeguere) von hohnel
chain intermittent weld
Chocianow
classroom dynamics of peer relations
collar incision
commitmentphobics
curvature of the microscopic
curve diagram of surface movement
Cynopterus
decussating fibers
definition chart
double Pedro
duxelles
Egyptian Mau
enforcable
engine room unmaned control test
final period decay
guarantor enterprise
gurgling sound
handwriting verification
hch
high-velocity flow
iridodilator
jubile
Kojevnikov
long-lived seed
LRV
make up the required number
manufacturing quality control
monosyllabic words
multiarray
Neglect to Comply with Rules
Neu Zittau
nobodies
ocular torticollis
open-type feed water heater
operative complication
otto the greats
overbookers
parathyroid extract
parthenotes
photo chromism
pis-allers
popsy
porcelain enameled wall panel
preflighting
pressure cook
Puebla de Sanabria
purchase
radebaugh
riaus
Roth's D-algorithm
round stock
safety related feed and bleed function
scarped plain
schultze-naumburg
seemest
Shevaroy Hills
situational school
sloch
small discount
snorkel mast
sociale
sollerets
stick to something like a leech
strategic-striking capability
Sun Yixian
super microcomputer
swear against
synchronous machine transients
szilard-chalmer's effect
take by storm
talking round
tender procedure
Terbulaline
Thomson relations
tight alignment
trial sheet
tuna factory ship
unboundedness
weigh ... up
whole cut-off
wound-up company