时间:2018-12-06 作者:英语课 分类:吉姆老爷.Lord.Jim


英语课

Audrey Hepburn was an award-winning actress. The American Film Institute considered her to be the third greatest actress of all time. She also became a fashion and cultural icon 1, and continues to be so today. She was also a magnificent humanitarian 2. The memories of World War II horrors shaped her desire to help children and so she served as a UNICEF Goodwill 3 Ambassador.


Hepburn was born in 1929 as Audrey Ruston in Brussels, Belgium. She was the only child of an Englishman and a Dutch aristocrat 4. She was educated at a private school in England. Her parents divorced in 1935 and her father left. His leaving was the most traumatic moment of her life. After World War II, Hepburn studied ballet in London.


Audrey was too tall to be a ballerina and went into acting 5. In 1951, her first big break came when she starred as Gigi in a London theatre. She won an award and lots of publicity 6. Her second break came two years later in the movie classic ‘Roman Holiday’, for which she won an Oscar for best actress.


Hepburn became one of Hollywood's most successful stars and starred in many unforgettable movies. She used her fame to work with UNICEF for several decades. She declared, "I have a broken heart”, after seeing Ethiopia’s famine in 1988. She also famously said: “'Third World' is a term I don't like very much, because we're all one world.” Hepburn died in 1993 but remains a much-loved legend



1 icon
n.偶像,崇拜的对象,画像
  • They found an icon in the monastery.他们在修道院中发现了一个圣像。
  • Click on this icon to align or justify text.点击这个图标使文本排齐。
2 humanitarian
n.人道主义者,博爱者,基督凡人论者
  • She has many humanitarian interests and contributes a lot to them.她拥有很多慈善事业,并作了很大的贡献。
  • The British government has now suspended humanitarian aid to the area.英国政府现已暂停对这一地区的人道主义援助。
3 goodwill
n.善意,亲善,信誉,声誉
  • His heart is full of goodwill to all men.他心里对所有人都充满着爱心。
  • We paid £10,000 for the shop,and £2000 for its goodwill.我们用一万英镑买下了这家商店,两千英镑买下了它的信誉。
4 aristocrat
n.贵族,有贵族气派的人,上层人物
  • He was the quintessential english aristocrat.他是典型的英国贵族。
  • He is an aristocrat to the very marrow of his bones.他是一个道道地地的贵族。
5 acting
n.演戏,行为,假装;adj.代理的,临时的,演出用的
  • Ignore her,she's just acting.别理她,她只是假装的。
  • During the seventies,her acting career was in eclipse.在七十年代,她的表演生涯黯然失色。
6 publicity
n.众所周知,闻名;宣传,广告
  • The singer star's marriage got a lot of publicity.这位歌星的婚事引起了公众的关注。
  • He dismissed the event as just a publicity gimmick.他不理会这件事,只当它是一种宣传手法。
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adjectival nouns
adriamycins
afterdamp
air temperature corrction
Ammania
aphyllidine
arithmetic module
artificial fact
atmospheric pressure cavity
Banyumas
bending jackstay
bobbin dyeing
Bockum-Hovel
botas
bread and cheese
briary
central american floral region
chaunch
coal characteristic
coal-tar gas
coigny
community participation
counter septum
counterfact
darksome
deep-yellow
Devonshire sausage
Dhareja
direct broadcast satellite system
disaffiliated
El Ciego
epigenetic structure
error free coding
ethical characteristic
eventified
final solution
first law of thermo-dynamics
fraises des bois
funeral parlors
go overboard for
good will
good-tempereds
half tide dock
handle-bar gear change
inner shell electron
iron works
Ishiguro, Kazuo
isothermal environment
jacketed insulation
lap siding
leading line
light extinction
lizard's tails
loading dead time
loading header
Lubiszyn
map/epa gateway
MHP
morpholine salicylate
nano-steradians
neornithines
net resident population density
nonlyrical
not-pology
note-paper
oblatio
Old Prussians
operating error
packed red blood cells
parcel receipt
parental responsibility
park-way
physically settled
plasmolyses
polyethylene oxide
preliminary candidate
psychic surgeon
residue oil
Saraykoy
Scale-rule
sea water quality standard
shift right double
simultaneous engagement
Sol X
st. anselms
stand on my bottom
sterilizing immunity
stomach qi
swensens
taperstick
the shadow economy
the UN
theomania
transaction cycle
transformational analysis of factorial data
tristable trigger circuit
trust-control
Tucacas
uterine milk
weather forecast for shipping
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