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
abandonment of cargo
adaptation maneuver
albertans
alcine
all water system
Amidazofen
anisotropic pressure
automatic control of hydrogenerator set
avises
azelscope
be reputed for
bone sticking
boothbay
bottleneck inflation
bulbomimic reflex
buy/sell sequence
candying
chlorophorus mushanus
chordoepithelioma
chuter
common-ase configuration
comply-or-explain
contributory profits
culture difference
developing countries
diffused-collector process
digest of criminal law
dilly-o
dimension shingle
duckness
dynamo panel
early intervention
earth-tide gravity meter
economic order size
enl.
enzymic coagulation
Ergoloid
eversion of cloaca
field-glasses
forceddraft
fullied
Glyceria chinensis
green lead ore (pyromorphite)
hand-list
heartlight
horizontal breakwater
hull insurance
insist on doing
macromolecular crystal
marazque
Margarima
maternal impression
metallolophia opalina
Microechinospora
million city
monky
nail-head bond
North Petherton
offset die
operating convenience
ortho-amphibolite
Oughter, L.
parade maker
pesticide chemistry
piccanins
pictural
plum needle
poele
polyoctadecamethylene formal
prairie sage
Pythagorean School
quinocetone
ramp anticline
Rea Silvia
religion-driven
repeated flow turbine
retrophiles
Rossel's test
Santorini's tubercles
self-induced e.m.f.
shadowy figure
snapshots
soil electro-magnetism
speed barrier
stairheads
statistic tolerance limits
superagents
sweet-scented geranium
tardits
tetraquarks
three-star fix
timber storage shed
triaryl
ultrafiltration system
unrepeatably
value - added reseller
vhs index-address search system
water-tube condenser
wine keys
womanifestoes
wormkiller
writ of extent