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
abduction splint
adelman
advance party/ troops
aeronautical radionavigation mob-lie station
angled cut
ansterdam
antique finished wood carving
automatic start-up equipment
baby blue
backlines
balakrishnan
bengkulu
brave show (of)
breakeven exchange rate
buttonmoulder
calendar queue
connecting type
customs guarantee
cynisin
deep currents
Deutsche Gesellschaft fur Ortung und Navigation
diamond pt.
Diesel rail car
domestic animal feeding
double feint
economic prospect
electrodynamic effect
electron-hole pair
etrema subauriformis
expansion adjusting rail
express road
Fayaoué
fluvial landform
Fortalgesic
Fungi imperfecti
geometric transformation
glacial terrace
glomerulation
high risky behavior
hufnagel
Hydrocotyle dielsiana
hypofibrinogenaemias
Hypopitys monotropa
international migration statistics
interseminate
kand-
keep one's ground
kinginess
kockelman
koji-tray method
laser-fire control
layc
mad hatters
manual welder
menostaxis
misinterpreting
most-favo(u)red-nation treatment
negative availability
non-1/v absorption
non-dividing
non-storage
object evidence
orbitozygomatic
ordinary point of a curve
organisation
osteosuture
overleveraged
phytochlorin
place theory
portable data-acquisition system (podas)
power showers
purify from
push her nose in
puts in for
pyrotechnic initiator
quer
quotation for foreign currency
radar meteorology
rate of evaporation
reducible flow graph
rose-coloured pastor
sarkless
sea water damage
secretion type
sileri
streptodornase-streptokinase
strobolaryngoscope
sweet calamuss
taking-off and landing
the reconstruction
tidswell
treat with contempt
tulal
turn one's nose up
uncomelier
unfissionable
vapo(u)r lamp
wash-stand
wave advance
wecht
Wedensky phenomenon
williwaw