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. e. kennellies
accelerometer tube
aerial pickup system
airport-brown
albert sabins
ancienne noblesse
antidamping
armature control
atomic irradiation
bagots
banged up
barchant yarn
Belaka
bimetry
booksize
boundary height
bronchus segemntalis basalis lateralis
Brovalol
cantilever fixed unloading tower
caral
chip log
composite mould
contre-band
cut-out switch
descamp
diffusion circulation
embroidered organdy
empuse
eriocomous
eternizement
forced vortex
freeride board
gansta
gastropodan
geographical relationship
get in a sweat
good registration
gould
green product
half tone process
hall-stand
hard-solder joint
harlequin opal
high-grades
hs?an ho wu
inbound
infundible
ion crystal
isopropylamine
Italian Republic
judgment liens
Kanizsa triangle
Koprivlen
Lex specialis derogat generali.
lingismus
Long Range Planning Unit
low level exposure
lupus vegetans
Lyon-Horgan operation
Madiran
manhaden
microglossum bimarginatum v. et b.
midnerves
Moark
monodactylous
mu-Conotoxins
Muricococcum
Musculus spinalis capitis
mydriatic drugs
Naoise
natural history of disease
non-destructive inspection (ndi)
nubar
odontotherapy
oral region
phanerophyta immersa
phase of cell division
photochemical exchange
picnic can
pseudoscientists
quantificate
r.m.s
radio auto-alarm system
rag-dolls
ready-money crop
research joint venture
reversibility of mutation
sakai rug
seed placement
shaplen
Sindangbarang
solid-state physics
space navigation
strepsiceros
superpressure technology
symmetric syncline
tetradotoxin
turn off the light
value added tax
ventral face
waterline plane
wood chip carrier