时间:2018-12-13 作者:英语课 分类:创新英语教程第二册


英语课
[00:05.20]While you read
[00:12.28]Rich and Famous or Rich and Dangerous?
[00:17.61]They say that in the end we're all the same.You can have money and fame,
[00:25.44]but in the end you still have to do the same kind of things as everyone else-
[00:31.97]sleep,eat, fall in and out of love.and,apparently.commit crimes!
[00:40.44]Yes,when you look at the world of celebrities,
[00:45.71]it's amazing how many have had trouble with the law.
[00:51.07]Here's just a few of the ones we could remember,but the Internet has lots more!
[00:58.23]O.J.Simpson
[01:01.88]O.J.was involved in perhaps the most famous celebrity 1 trial of them all.
[01:09.02]He was accused of killing 2 his ex-wife.Nicole Brown.
[01:14.76]and her lover.Ronald Goldman,
[01:18.92]and he was allegedly filmed driving away from the scene in a truck.
[01:24.87]At first,the evidence suggesting he was guilty
[01:30.44]seemed to many people to be very clear,
[01:34.88]but the trial,which was televised around the world,found him innocent.
[01:41.12]Lots of people think the jury got it wrong
[01:46.16]and that he was lucky to get away with it.
[01:50.00]He had to pay several million dollars in damages to the victims' relatives
[01:56.56]when they took him to court afterward 3.
[02:00.32]However,as one American comedian 4 said,
[02:05.39]Have you ever heard of a millionaire murdering someone with their own hands?
[02:11.74]These people employ someone just to answer the telephone!
[02:16.70]Johnny Depp
[02:20.36]He may look sweet and innocent,
[02:24.51]but Johnny Depp has been found guilty of vandalism more than once in his life.
[02:31.07]On one occasion,he smashed up a hotel room in New York.
[02:36.94]He was charged,but it didn't go to court
[02:41.99]because he agreed to pay $2000 to the hotel to repair the damage.
[02:48.33]Mike Tyson
[02:52.28]Mike Tyson continued to earn millions of dollars as a boxer
[02:58.44]even after he had been to prison for rape 5.
[03:03.20]He took a nineteen-year-old contestant 6 in the Miss America beauty contest
[03:09.54]to his hotel room and forced her to have sex with him.
[03:14.87]He was later found guilty and was sentenced to six years in prison,
[03:21.53]but he got out just three years later for good behaviour.
[03:27.10]He hasn't exactly shown much good behaviour since then,though!
[03:32.35]Jean-Claude van Damme
[03:36.50]After admitting he had been drink-driving,
[03:41.54]the so-called Muscles from Brussels was ordered to pay a $1200 fine.
[03:49.62]was banned from driving for ninety days.
[03:53.98]and was forced to go to an anti-drink-driving course.
[03:59.26]Let's hope the course was more effective than the acting 7 lessons he took!
[04:05.11]David Beckham
[04:08.87]Another bad driver is David Beckham.
[04:13.41]He was convicted of driving at over ninety miles an hour
[04:18.77]when he was on his way to a training session for his former football club.Manchester United.
[04:25.43]His excuse was that he was being chased by a photographer.
[04:31.49]He was also banned from driving,
[04:35.54]but shortly afterwards the judge agreed to give him back his driving licence,
[04:41.47]because he said that,as a celebrity,
[04:45.94]it was safer for Beckham to travel in his own car than on public transport.
[04:52.00]Safer for David,perhaps,but not for everyone else on the road.


1 celebrity
n.名人,名流;著名,名声,名望
  • Tom found himself something of a celebrity. 汤姆意识到自己已小有名气了。
  • He haunted famous men, hoping to get celebrity for himself. 他常和名人在一起, 希望借此使自己获得名气。
2 killing
n.巨额利润;突然赚大钱,发大财
  • Investors are set to make a killing from the sell-off.投资者准备清仓以便大赚一笔。
  • Last week my brother made a killing on Wall Street.上个周我兄弟在华尔街赚了一大笔。
3 afterward
adv.后来;以后
  • Let's go to the theatre first and eat afterward. 让我们先去看戏,然后吃饭。
  • Afterward,the boy became a very famous artist.后来,这男孩成为一个很有名的艺术家。
4 comedian
n.喜剧演员;滑稽演员
  • The comedian tickled the crowd with his jokes.喜剧演员的笑话把人们逗乐了。
  • The comedian enjoyed great popularity during the 30's.那位喜剧演员在三十年代非常走红。
5 rape
n.抢夺,掠夺,强奸;vt.掠夺,抢夺,强奸
  • The rape of the countryside had a profound ravage on them.对乡村的掠夺给他们造成严重创伤。
  • He was brought to court and charged with rape.他被带到法庭并被指控犯有强奸罪。
6 contestant
n.竞争者,参加竞赛者
  • The company will furnish each contestant with a free ticket.公司将为每个参赛者免费提供一张票。
  • The personal appearance and interview of the contestant is another count.参加比赛者的个人仪表和谈话也是一项。
7 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。
学英语单词
Abram-man
agrometeorological yearbook
air-cell battery
any such
Awu, Vol.
beguile with
beneficer
bottle oven
Caldas Novas
capital of Idaho
ceratium praelongum
cgs electromagnetic system units
chronic injury
compulsory retirement plan
computer language recorder
computer security verification
consumption of the means of production
coupled reflectance
critical-points
drawing compound
ductile damage
duttas
earthen reservoir
electric box furnace
embedded database
energy calibration standard
escape tones
gone into
grain boundary precipitation
having words
head bent adjustable wrench
hydroscaphid
ignition of flammable vapour
inquisitor jeffreysi
jurisdictional error
kaurinolic acid
keep under detention
knifemaker
Leube-Riegel test dinner
Limit Order Book
lyapounov exponent
Macronectes
maculatus
make a note of
matrix, adjacency
maximum dividing depth
mediaeval
metacrystall
multiphase digital system
mycol.
Nepeta stewartiana
non-attenuated power oscillations
nonlitigable
normal switch position indication
note paper
November Republicans
nuclear testing
outreckon
overglanced
palladium(iii) fluoride
pipe locator
pipeline project
piu
poppy days
postpontile
PPDS
probolistic
project charts and layouts
receipt and outlays of treasury
retoucher
road construction work
roughing
SBFI
scopule
seleucus is
sexagesimal circle
skipsful
slowmotioncamera
soil active acidity
soil mulch
solid region
spiritual essence
statisticizes
stereomicroscopical test
stopp
stroke-in-evolution
stshsisnsks-s
taint damage
Tenuipalpidae
testier
theme-pubs
theon
Trichiurus lepturus
trochile
tube scaling
turbid water
unreasonable use of water
unworking
Valdensian
vignin
Volkmann's disease
zetta-watt