时间:2019-02-05 作者:英语课 分类:地道美语播客


英语课

Caridad: Look at this! The president of McQuillan University is stepping down. He submitted his resignation this morning after an undergraduate student made allegations that they had an affair and that she’s pregnant with his baby.



Nate: That’s terrible. Maybe they were in love.



Caridad: In love? He’s married and has four kids, and when she first went public about the affair, he denied it and said that she had made up the whole story. Would someone in love try to cover up something like this?



Nate: Who knows? The president of a major university is a person with a lot to lose. I’m not making excuses for him, but maybe he lost his head.



Caridad: Of course he had a lot to lose. Anyone who is in the public eye like he is shouldn’t be playing with fire. He’s an embarrassment 1 to his family and to his university.



Nate: I still think there could be extenuating 2 circumstances. All you know you’ve learned from one newspaper article.



Caridad: That much is true, but I know one thing: Whatever happens to him, it serves him right!





Script by Dr. Lucy Tse



n.尴尬;使人为难的人(事物);障碍;窘迫
  • She could have died away with embarrassment.她窘迫得要死。
  • Coughing at a concert can be a real embarrassment.在音乐会上咳嗽真会使人难堪。
adj.使减轻的,情有可原的v.(用偏袒的辩解或借口)减轻( extenuate的现在分词 );低估,藐视
  • There were extenuating circumstances and the defendant did not receive a prison sentence. 因有可减轻罪行的情节被告未被判刑。
  • I do not plead any extenuating act. 我不求宽大,也不要求减刑。 来自演讲部分
学英语单词
'Uta Vava'u I.
angular area
anthrophonic
automatic train stop equipment
bambusa striata lodd.
batchy
beuret
blank tear
brimstone (sulfur)
bullock block
cannon primer
carbon block for blast furnace
cartesian basis
Chinese folk religion
chrom-chert
communications controldevices
corynebacterium diplitheriae
degelatinized bone dust
degradable polymer
diddy bop
differential piece tate plan
distress message generator
educational benefits
Einstein-Maxwell equation
engine room canvas cowl
ergun they
ethernet communication
Eupenicillium
flabagasted
french pastries
grouching
group loop
Hayling I.
hypnobirthing
independent from
initial utility
interferometer chamber
international standard number
isosexual
it looks like rain
jack the rippers
Japanese eel iridovirus disease
Jesse Owens
Jesuitocracy
junction amelodental
left no stone unturned
lucking in
Maxwell turn(s)
method of elementary abstraction
Michelia platypetala
multimodal transport B/L
natural caving
negative AND gate
nicia
normal rated power
notch board
Office automation.
office cable
ostpolitiks
plan for IRRI,S third decade
plasmocyte
polyhaline
pre-register
preceptual
precising
pulmonary vascular resistance
pyralid moth
Ra's ad Dayr
rancherias
refractory wash
render a service to
replacement
replenishment rate
resits
saualpite
self seal packing
self-aligning gate transistor
semiconstructed
ship-jack
sinopulmonary
slip feather
stannum alloy
steadies
steady turning period
tacheometrical survey
Talanquera
ten-millionths
terminal roundabout line
title-deeds
torward
traditional-style
trans isomer cinnamic acid
Trojan points
trunk carrier
tuberculosis of skin
vicariousnesses
welding togs
who says
wire-walking
wreathes
zablocki