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
.dsg
a bowl
abyssopelagic organism
acid insoluble ash
ad quem
arrives at
attendance
band loss
bed bath
bellone
bimeters
bipap
black hole of calcuttas
boomsters
British Standard Pipe Thread
cepora nadina eunama
chandlery
channa dal
chiral separation
Chobienia
cleanliest
cometh
cow-huby
CPP32
crestal-surface trace
cyberaddicted
cymatoderma dendriticum
descending nodes
diametral prism
Diplachne
dipnets
discouragements
distortion shift
dividend scrip
edwardians
elasticity numberl
ethnicist
Fanjah
full-sibs
Furuvik
gas pressure-regulating station
girlzine
giroflee
gulalo
have a job doing sth
host-guests
hot mirror
human teaching
hyposynchrony
indecomposable code
integrating element
keep her head above water
Kimnyǒng
leggins
Leptosiphonium venustum
limnanth
linear inequality in one variable
liquor resorcinolis fusci
malassoes
man in the mirror
medium and small-sized enterprises
negative sanction
nereis larva
non-repetitive transaction
nucleus restiformis
nzabonimana
olifiant gas
opepe
optical thickness of the atmosphere
overlivers
paranthiass
Pharisees
phototherapeutically
pleadings in the alternative
polycentrisms
polyplectron bicalcaratum
pseudonucleoprotein
quick cooking process
rabindranath
reference black level
region analysis
robot operating system
Roosbeek
salt addition
sample skein
scrap baling machine
screw for framework of automatic device
separated oil skins
storage addressing error
super-male fish
to say nothing of
took her flight
turbulent propagation
twin drum drier
under-fiend
uniform bound
void width
wastewater influent
Wertheim splint
wrapper
zymozoid