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
Airlander
alpha-rubber
Amarakaeri
anaphoria
animal protection test
automatic pirn changing mechanism
bad-debt
bailbond
bar type cylindergauge
beachlikest
Beta-Chlorovinyl
bind down
blowsies
BO, b.o.
bomerang
bos'n
cat's-eye retroreflector
Cesstibtantite
chargeing current
cheeselicious
computer program configuration item test procedure
contingency cost
countertrades
Cuatro Ojos
damage control table
DCUTL
different strokes for different folks
distribution clause
drag sb away
drift along
epidemic benign dry pleurisy
erythrophagocytosis
farmers' family
fitting of stuffing
flamin'
foam station
fornovo
frustum form factor
ganoderpurine
gas-glant planet
genus pholiss
Glycurone
gyroscopic seismometer
handson
have good sport
headborrow
hexaphenylethane
hiccuped
illegibly
image dissector, image-dissector
individual nominal characteristic
industrial gas
insulating refractories
intermolecular linkage
ivis
kibales
lead screw drive
lift van
luminance for scotopic vision
main supporting surface
Manoeuvring and Warning Signals
mismedications
Montsauche
mushrooms and fish maw in soup
new employee
non-destructivenonelectrolyte
non-toxic alcohols
nonglucocorticoids
nonnegativity conditions
ORCAELIDAE
orientation ratio
Ostycut
over-large
passenger person-kilometres
pcme
Peter Martyr d'Anghiera
piliary complex carcinoma
preaspirations
prob-lem
prop shaft
Prunella grandiflora
pully-bone
puncta optimum
quadruple-bogeys
raggi
rhizophlyctis variabilis
ring beam
Risulfazene
Rogelim
saxifragaceous
scuffler
Shueki
sintered phosphate
subalgebra
Suntrana
tilleth
trett
uncyclin
underground silo
units of analysis
UNJBS
water blinks