时间:2018-12-11 作者:英语课 分类:万花筒2007年


英语课
Last winter, as rumors 1 of a royal engagement swirled 2, Kate Middleton haunted by the paparazzi just wished they'd leave her alone. Now that the royal romance is over, they probably will.

Prince William, 24, and his girlfriend Kate, who is 25, met at university in Scotland four years ago. There they shared a house and became lovers out of the media spotlight 3. But after their graduation they had to face real life and the glare of publicity 4.

Prince Williams joined the army, and began officer training at Britain's elite 5 military academy Sandhurst, while Kate became a fashion buyer in London. Wherever they went, whether it was the prince's out drinking with friends, or Kate's simply setting out for work, photographers were never far away. Finally it may be that strain that ended the relationship, or the fact the prince has said he doesn't want to marry until he is 28 or 30. On the other hand, it may be Kate deciding that a royal wedding is less fairytale ending than a life sentence.

Whatever the reason, royal watchers say the parting was amicable 6, and the two will remain friends.


1 rumors
n.传闻( rumor的名词复数 );[古]名誉;咕哝;[古]喧嚷v.传闻( rumor的第三人称单数 );[古]名誉;咕哝;[古]喧嚷
  • Rumors have it that the school was burned down. 有谣言说学校给烧掉了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
  • Rumors of a revolt were afloat. 叛变的谣言四起。 来自《简明英汉词典》
2 swirled
v.旋转,打旋( swirl的过去式和过去分词 )
  • The waves swirled and eddied around the rocks. 波浪翻滚着在岩石周围打旋。
  • The water swirled down the drain. 水打着旋流进了下水道。
3 spotlight
n.公众注意的中心,聚光灯,探照灯,视听,注意,醒目
  • This week the spotlight is on the world of fashion.本周引人瞩目的是时装界。
  • The spotlight followed her round the stage.聚光灯的光圈随着她在舞台上转。
4 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。
5 elite
n.精英阶层;实力集团;adj.杰出的,卓越的
  • The power elite inside the government is controlling foreign policy.政府内部的一群握有实权的精英控制着对外政策。
  • We have a political elite in this country.我们国家有一群政治精英。
6 amicable
adj.和平的,友好的;友善的
  • The two nations reached an amicable agreement.两国达成了一项友好协议。
  • The two nations settled their quarrel in an amicable way.两国以和睦友好的方式解决了他们的争端。
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1-benzyl-4-piperidone
acustico-lateral area
adult respiratory distress syndromes
aerokinesis
aircored
altpsm
american social health association
barking spider
battleth
bell mouth ventilator
bellwomen
bioethically
bit of skirt
bite restoration
britz
by bus
chicken cacciatoras
ciliary nerve
co-current contact
coincidence analyser analyzer
Condong-besar, Sungai
convention of school principals
Coronel Moldes
deep rock disposal
deeply in the money
dihydroxypropanone
dispower
distributed cavity klystron
doupt
eduldamer
electric rammer
ethionines
eu-test cycle
exultingly
fault-tolerant logic
fine grained steel
foam-coated fabric
front end control facility package
front running board
galvanized hoop iron
gaseous dissociation
giant cell arteritis
gold tone
goosefoot plant
Grote
guard-forward
h.a.d.
ideal reproducing head
Ipomoea sumatrana
iridises
jack's land
Jagst
jugata
life-web
methylmethacrylates
multilevel addressing
n-butyrophenone
naranas
needle jet
nichola
non-nutritive sweetener
oil-revenues
omnibus cooperative advertisement
overactions
Paradisaedae
parallel-chords
paraplaner
party to
pear sauce
pistacia lentiscuss
plan of power demand and supply
plateform semitrailer
Podocarpium leptopus
precision forging machine
pulls wires
pure copper tube
quench bath
reactor-ready
recuperative tank furnace
redeem one's obligation
round Window
royte
rundalls
Saint Albans Raid
senta
Shavians
sorrowful
speiss
square-end Nicol prism
still-pending
strawberry essence
strawberry ice creams
tafsira
tasgi
terminal part
things concealed
three-wattmeter method
tried on
Urga
women in love
working progress
writ large