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
ablick clay
acadmie
acer ginnala maxim.
adamantinocarcinoma
aged column
aggrandizest
ascochyta
attitude toward radioactivity scale
backward areas
bar-and-dot generator
barrel light
be upon the books
bicyclic epoxide
Bostrychia
Brahmanic
calv
chamaecyparis thyoidess
circular mean difference
companionment
competitors in business
comrades in arms
contrarily
corpora cavernosum urethrae
cortico-
criminal activity
crustaceous
cupeller
daemonisms
dandy finisher
direct earnings of parent company
double-lock seam
drag for
dropping lehr
economic societies
effective internal clearance
eye hook
fail the exam
fax cover page editor
ferric lactate
filiferous
free-fall launching
Glenn Roeder
Gurguéia, R.
half-litres
Hamberge
hearth attendant
holwy
Holynesses
indirect instigator
inductance switch
inknit
interhabitat
kyodo tsushin
lacrimal sac
lateral cricoarytenoid
lending to
malethamer
medium baking temperature
nicopile
nominative of address
oceanwater
off-shore bar
one dimensional high speed flow
optical sampling
oralis
outstation
parola
pen-men
pilot biscuits
posttransduction
pulchra
racketing
reactive brilliant orange
retinoic
Ribamar
rigid boom system
scolecodonts
seasoned hand
secondary attribution
Senecio japonicus
six-string
staff attending
step down ratio
stocking tool
subroutines table
sunoco
superhorses
sweet gasoline
Sārūq
teetotal
thermoindicator paint
thiopropionamide
tinctoria
totanus (eutortanus) derjugini
tube still
unkilling
ushanka
vacuum suction filter
vasya
verklemmt
wave piercing vessel
weed