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
abominatio
after etching
agaric mineral (rock milk)
alkoes
anisopera
arrese
at all hours
autodissociation
axi-compressor
axial lead
bandhavgarh
batphone
be there for someone
belaced
belief system
brake trial
bum burps
Campbell Town
cap spining frame
carratene
cawthon
cerebral hemorrhage
chromopexis
chromosomal fibers
Clematoclethra pingwuensis
computer-using
crevenette
cyrillization
Daan Township
Decoction of Red Halloysite and Limonite
deformably
delatorreite (todorokite)
dirt screen
dithiodialanine
elink
englacial debris
epiplectic
expatriates
flow-fronts
free figure
goat's milk anemia
grey butte
have sth at one's fingertips
homoveratrylamine
horizon angle
human-kind
hung upon
integumentary tapetum
key contract
knockout core
Kudachi
Kuhunt's forceps
macroimages
medicine for external application
microevolution
monostomous
navigation Doppler radar
Neroyka, Gora
oxnam
persistent pupillary membrane
petrol wharf
PGOT
pigsweat
pitch perfect
plastograph
polyarteritits
power blower
pregnant cow
prototype construction
rack and wheel
radiation-triggered
reaction coefficient
real data
Rubus obcordatus
salientias
self brazing
self-kill
semi-continuous process
sennights
ship-controllability
short duration sustainer
special gear box
spectroanalysis instrument
spherical harmonics expansion
spray pole
static death
sterilizable
Stirling engines
stizosedion vitreum
stretcher-mounted duster
super-continents
surcingless
systematic square
Tongatapu Grp.
Uhrichsville
unchainable
underglaze
volumetrical determination
wiccan
Ya-shima
yockelson