时间:2018-11-30 作者:英语课 分类:最新15篇文章贯通英语四级词汇


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[00:12.78]The Man and His Castle (Ⅰ)

[00:15.52]La Cuesta Encantada (The Enchanted 1 Castle)

[00:21.86]is one of the most

[00:25.69]remarkable displays of power

[00:28.10]and passion in the world.

[00:30.07]This marvelous tourist site

[00:32.25]now known as

[00:33.68]Hearst San Simeon State Historical Monument

[00:37.51]is better known as

[00:39.70]Hearst Castle. It is

[00:42.76]located six hours south of San Francisco

[00:46.04] and five hours north of Los Angeles.

[00:49.44]Sheltered by the mountains

[00:51.73]in northern San Luis Obispo County,

[00:55.56]the complex of 165 rooms

[00:58.19]and 127 acres of gardens, terraces,

[01:03.87]pools, fountains and footpaths 2

[01:06.94]draws approximately 800 000 visitors

[01:11.20]annually. To understand the castle,

[01:14.59]you have to understand the man

[01:17.00]who built it, William Randolph Hearst.

[01:20.50] And to understand the man,

[01:22.80]you have to understand the land

[01:25.10] upon which he built his dream.

[01:27.39]Born on April 29, 1863,

[01:31.34]William Randolph Hearst

[01:35.16]was the only child of George Hearst

[01:37.57] and his wife, Phoebe.

[01:40.20]who amassed 3 his fortune

[01:45.23]through partnerships 4 in three of

[01:49.50]the everlargest mining discoveries

[01:51.68]of copper 5, silver, and gold ores.

[01:54.09]In 1865, George began to

[01:57.38]accumulate parcels of land

[01:59.34]by obtaining 46 000 acres

[02:02.51]of the Piedra Blanco Ranch 6

[02:04.81]on California’s Central Coast.

[02:08.53]There he began a successful cattle ranch,

[02:11.27]eventually enlarging it to 250 000 acres

[02:15.42]stretching 50 miles along the coast



1 enchanted
人行小径,人行道( footpath的名词复数 )
  • There are a lot of winding footpaths in the col. 山坳里尽是些曲曲弯弯的羊肠小道。
  • There are many footpaths that wind through the village. 有许多小径穿过村子。
2 amassed
v.积累,积聚( amass的过去式和过去分词 )
  • He amassed a fortune from silver mining. 他靠开采银矿积累了一笔财富。
  • They have amassed a fortune in just a few years. 他们在几年的时间里就聚集了一笔财富。 来自《简明英汉词典》
3 partnerships
n.伙伴关系( partnership的名词复数 );合伙人身份;合作关系
  • Partnerships suffer another major disadvantage: decision-making is shared. 合伙企业的另一主要缺点是决定要由大家来作。 来自英汉非文学 - 政府文件
  • It involved selling off limited partnerships. 它涉及到售出有限的合伙权。 来自辞典例句
4 copper
n.铜;铜币;铜器;adj.铜(制)的;(紫)铜色的
  • The students are asked to prove the purity of copper.要求学生们检验铜的纯度。
  • Copper is a good medium for the conduction of heat and electricity.铜是热和电的良导体。
5 ranch
n.大牧场,大农场
  • He went to work on a ranch.他去一个大农场干活。
  • The ranch is in the middle of a large plateau.该牧场位于一个辽阔高原的中部。
学英语单词
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1-naphthylamine hydrochloride
abjustment
Abū Rubayq
alkalinizations
amocarzine
arctic region
autocompounded current transformer
ayyub
azatropylidene
backlog depreciation
be enveloped in
beaumontoside
by right of something
chatham str.
cold dishes
conforming imputation
contingent transaction
cross tolerance
customerinquiry
dative sickness
dehorted
delay set counter
die arrangement for continuous compaction
direct-axis transient voltage
direness
dollar value at point of exportation
doublepressing
drinkings
dropping vessel
dry salted fish
duty of assured clause
ecosophers
ego trip
eructing
face masks
faint with
femaleless
fire-bucket
flexible shaft coupling
foredated
getting away
halmyrogenic
instantaneous cut
integrand
Kaschau
kinorhyncha
kiwifruit
lecturin'
lithophile element
local transaction program
Louis III
magnetic device
measure of transcendence
mileage recorder
militarus
molybdenum complex
myohypertrophia kymoparalytica
naphthalene poisoning
octal indication
open future
open-cavity
optical fiber measurement
period-to-date quantity adjusted
phase wave
phlebodium aureums
pinch-in effect
polluter-pays
proximal point algorithm
puccinia noli-tangere
Pull your chain
pycnanthemum virginianums
rattlers
read untrue
reeling furnace
relocatable linking loader
replays
sale fees
Saxifraga divaricata
semipolitician
side action
single shot trigger
single-sideband
sinopontius aesthetascus
sizing roller
soft snap
spooneristic
steady-state heating
supporter combustion
supporting information
tambay
tetanic induced current
TLC-scanner
trentepholia (mongoma) pennipes
Truth In-lending Act
undercut slope
unimanual palpation
unshunned
vibratory hopper feeder
welders' siderosis
with (an) effort
Zǎbrani