时间:2018-12-29 作者:英语课 分类:英语名人堂


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莱昂纳多·迪卡普里奥(Leonardo DiCaprio),1974年11月11日出生于美国加利福尼亚州洛杉矶,美国影视演员、制作人。
1990年,16岁的他参加了电视剧《成长的烦恼》的拍摄。1993年,他凭借《不一样的天空》中的表演获得了第66届奥斯卡金像奖最佳男配角奖和第51届美国电影电视金球奖最佳男配角的提名[1]  。1995年,拍摄电影《罗密欧与朱丽叶》,荣膺第47届柏林国际电影节最佳男主角。1997年,莱昂纳多主演了《泰坦尼克号》。2002年,莱昂纳多出演了史蒂文斯皮尔伯格导演的《逍遥法外》,并因此获得了金球奖男主角的提名。2004年,和马丁西科塞斯合作的《飞行家》为莱昂迎来一个美国金球奖最佳男演员奖。2006年,凭借《无间道风云》和《血钻》获得金球奖最佳男主角的双提名。2010,他出演了《盗梦空间》。2013年,他主演了电影《了不起的盖茨比》。2014年1月,他凭借《华尔街之狼》中的表演获得了金球奖最佳男主角奖;9月17日,被联合国授予联合国“和平使者”,关注气候变化[2]  。2015年,莱昂纳多·迪卡普里奥收入2900万美元,居福布斯全球演员富豪榜排名第13位。[3] 
2016年,凭借电影《荒野猎人》获得第73届金球奖最佳男主角奖和第88届奥斯卡金像奖最佳男主角奖[4-5]  。
 

Leonardo DiCaprio is a movie heartthrob and award-winning Hollywood actor. He shot to fame for his role in ‘Titanic’ in 1997. He has also starred in many other successful movies. DiCaprio is known for his environmentalist activities. He flies on commercial flights instead of private jets and has an eco-friendly house. He has inspired other celebrities 1 to take up environmental causes.
 
DiCaprio is an only child and was born in Los Angeles in 1974. He was named after Leonardo da Vinci because his pregnant mother was looking at a da Vinci painting in Italy when her baby first kicked. Leo's actor stepbrother inspired DiCaprio to take up acting 2. He began looking for an agent when he was twelve but was unsuccessful.
 
DiCaprio started his career making TV commercials. His break came in 1990 when he appeared in several shows. DiCaprio’s big breakthrough came in 1993 when he starred opposite Robert de Niro in ‘The Boy’s Life’. That same year he starred alongside Johnny Depp in ‘What's Eating Gilbert Grape’.  He was 19 and his performance earned him an Academy Award nomination 3.
 
DiCaprio’s career took off and he became a Hollywood star. His status was elevated to superstar after he acted in ‘Titanic’, which won 11 Oscars. He was the most searched for personality on the Internet and his popularity was dubbed 4 "Leo-mania”. He said later he would “never reach that state of popularity again”. Today, DiCaprio prefers to think of himself as an indie actor.


1 celebrities
n.(尤指娱乐界的)名人( celebrity的名词复数 );名流;名声;名誉
  • He only invited A-list celebrities to his parties. 他只邀请头等名流参加他的聚会。
  • a TV chat show full of B-list celebrities 由众多二流人物参加的电视访谈节目
2 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。
3 nomination
n.提名,任命,提名权
  • John is favourite to get the nomination for club president.约翰最有希望被提名为俱乐部主席。
  • Few people pronounced for his nomination.很少人表示赞成他的提名。
4 dubbed
v.给…起绰号( dub的过去式和过去分词 );把…称为;配音;复制
  • Mathematics was once dubbed the handmaiden of the sciences. 数学曾一度被视为各门科学的基础。
  • Is the movie dubbed or does it have subtitles? 这部电影是配音的还是打字幕的? 来自《简明英汉词典》
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.der
ability to architect plans and strategies
Adenophora potanini Korsh.
advance metal
albinocratic
anisotropic liquid
Avnslev
band course
barium azodicarboxylate
bell morels
broadening vision in management
buccinator artery
carbon nanotube-based electrochemical dna sensor
cathartica
Cauvet
change-over knob
cheapsat
cherrypie
compact COBOL
compline
convex surface (or dorso-lateral surface)
counter staining
counterflow rapid action mixer
cryogenic biology
cryogenic gyroscope
Cryptotaxis
crystal growth by sintering
Cyronine
dc servo motor
deceiptful
decisieverts
design power
dibbling machine
diffuse bipolars
direct access storage device(dasd)
disflourish
double-handedness
drinkabler
Echinostoma lindoensis
Entomoplasmatales
epitonium taiwanica
examination and approval authority
false maculae
faunal
fixed wireless data
forhevedness
fortunel
go to the doctor
guisarmes
Gutenberg, Johannes
hagia sophias
hypogene anomaly
in former days
in place density
infantry man
integrifolium
jaculate
law report
leiomyosarcoma of kidney
lignin number
lime plant
littuit
Lumbricus
manual ringing telephone
mechanical sealed main coolant pump
megakeryoblast
mercury dibromide
mobile videotape recorder
modified refractivity
moving-bed catalytic reforming
nidifying
nighest
Normes Francaises
NW by W
Omoprostil
orchidaceous corolla
owners declaration
paradoxures
Paramobil
plastic relay house
proloculus
pure blue
put dibs on
quees
quickplay
remonstration
shoe divider
steam jet air pump
strategic minefields
suggestopedy
sulfating
surface trap density
sylvia
Tadzhiki
to swell
two-sided manifold
uang
ultraacoustics
Virchow's node
water-softener
wean someone from
Zapocoz