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
Abragam model
advantage in the production
angle-to-digit converter
anterior margin
antipastoes
artificial monument
at any stage of development
bills discounted overdue
biorefineries
birdall
body plan
caliduct
Cartesian vector
ceisler
chain trencher
chiu tzu y?eh
choriambi
cinquanta
clusias
computer typesetting system
cussingly
diagnostic reagent kit
disease of vitreous
doubled words
Dougga
drought resistance
Dutch East India Company
echinulate echium
Elysu
facial cleft cyst
faintest
Fantis
fiber bone
flakus
go in for
gong with a pilot lamp
gorde
heterodyne frequency meter
hexachloroplatinate
hysteroerotic
in the face of day
incap
Indian rattlebox
INSE
insect cytology
intersegmental reflex
intuition type
Kattasang Hills
Kayes, Reg.de
kirk
libyas
lip-print
liquefied petroleum gas displacement
luxus breathing
Lycksele
mathematical association of american
microbial breakdown
missa brevis
n-ary relationship
negative sequence loss
neocentric (rhoades & kerr 1949)
nominal short-cirucit capacity
nondurability
nosh up
nucka
one-piece core formation
ophiostigma rugosum
oral motor behavior
poynant
primary containment pressure
protection code of enclosure
protohelius issikii
pubio-
railroad grade crossing
red bryony
Rubilactone
safety stake
should not
single-valued mapping
slack-jawed
slowing down power
smoothing of frequency characteristic
social trends
solidate
something between us
summersgill
third-division
Torver
transparency screen
trichromatic theory of vision
trigger lever
trisamine, trisamino
Trékyllisheidhi
user-to-user signaling
water opal
water supplying capability
water vapor absorption band
weak-current cable
weihsien
wind tunnel study
work analysis
young oak-bark