时间:2018-12-11 作者:英语课 分类:访谈录2008


英语课

The ship was brand new and so was Millvina Dean, just two months old, the youngest passenger on the Titanic 1.


 "And this is your mother and you."


 "Yeah."


 But 96 years old Millvina, the last living Titanic survivor 2 needs the luck now she had then.


 "I was too small, so I was put in the sack."


 "In a sack."


 "Yep, and put overboard into the lifeboat."


 Mother and daughter were saved, so was her brother. Her father perished. But now Millvina needs another rescue, like a lot of people, she's going broke.


 "I don't know have how much you’ll think I pay here a month, have a guess."


 "I wouldn't know, well, ur... 500 pounds."


 "3000."


 About 5000 dollars for her keep at this nursing home. Millvina is having to auction 3 off her Titanic souvenirs, the suitcase given to her family in New York, the letter offering compensation from the Titanic victim’s fund, a few prints. But another rescue may be at hand. As her story spread, people decided 4 to help. A printer in Mclean Virginia.


 "I really felt that this was a, this was something that could really pay lasting 5 tribute to all the people who died on the Titanic."


 "I would have no, what's supposed [to be] the word, mat...materialistic 6, (right.) not the slightest bit, I'm a nail." Millvina Dean, a survivor then, a survivor now. Mark Phillips, CBS News, Southampton, England.



1 titanic
adj.巨人的,庞大的,强大的
  • We have been making titanic effort to achieve our purpose.我们一直在作极大的努力,以达到我们的目的。
  • The island was created by titanic powers and they are still at work today.台湾岛是由一个至今仍然在运作的巨大力量塑造出来的。
2 survivor
n.生存者,残存者,幸存者
  • The sole survivor of the crash was an infant.这次撞车的惟一幸存者是一个婴儿。
  • There was only one survivor of the plane crash.这次飞机失事中只有一名幸存者。
3 auction
n.拍卖;拍卖会;vt.拍卖
  • They've put the contents of their house up for auction.他们把房子里的东西全都拿去拍卖了。
  • They bought a new minibus with the proceeds from the auction.他们用拍卖得来的钱买了一辆新面包车。
4 decided
adj.决定了的,坚决的;明显的,明确的
  • This gave them a decided advantage over their opponents.这使他们比对手具有明显的优势。
  • There is a decided difference between British and Chinese way of greeting.英国人和中国人打招呼的方式有很明显的区别。
5 lasting
adj.永久的,永恒的;vbl.持续,维持
  • The lasting war debased the value of the dollar.持久的战争使美元贬值。
  • We hope for a lasting settlement of all these troubles.我们希望这些纠纷能获得永久的解决。
6 materialistic
a.唯物主义的,物质享乐主义的
  • She made him both soft and materialistic. 她把他变成女性化而又实际化。
  • Materialistic dialectics is an important part of constituting Marxism. 唯物辩证法是马克思主义的重要组成部分。
学英语单词
abionarce
air fixed capacitor
ammonium selenide
antelucidate
anti-stall device
automatic-alarm receiver
bairdiella chrysouras
basic exemption for classified income tax
Beni-Abbès
Bhalil
billing costs
Birmingham screwdriver
chanterer
charted
chigger flowers
chordotonal ligament
choreman
cities
clematis crispas
Commonwealth Bank of Australia
compound inflorescence
coordinating conjunctions
crookbill
croycer
dilatedly
eburicoic acid
electroclash
ellipse support
exposedness
favorises
Ferguson
Ford viscosity cup
fortresslike
friedest
gas content of oil
geodesical
goos-haenchen shift
Hamel's tests
harrumphing
health manpower education
hernandolinol
holandric genes
hopper-bottomed bin
house let
hybrid computer simulation
imaginary test
impedance convertor
Inbursa
input-output technical coefficient
insecticidal plasticizer
inshape
intensity of gravity
internal weld protrusion
interporiferous
irregular boundary line
istmo
joint venture contract
kalash
lamina rara
locomotive for district transfer
lying wall
macroberts
magonsaetes
maximum stroke
Mercuramide
motor trolley
multiple digit adder
on own account
ozone content
parabothus kiensis
pitcher-friendly
pli
plow back the profit
Q. C. R.
raphe mediana
ready-to-assemble
relationshit
resist-valve arrester
san angeloes
sansculotterie
Saratovskaya
secant stiffness matrix
single line binary
single-corona charging
sitting-place
Stegocrotaphic
stone lined
sulfabenzanline
Symplocos poilanei
synthesis of optical coherence function
take it on the lam
the soft
trochoidal analyzer
troul
unpromoted
Velarum
velocitized
vibro-hoe
Viscount Nelson
water jump
xenon long-arc lamp
yellowdog