时间:2019-01-01 作者:英语课 分类:各国名人英文介绍


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Oprah Winfrey is internationally famous for hosting the most popular talk show on American television. Millions of TV viewers tune 1 in worldwide every day to watch her. She has become a household name and is now one of the richest women in the world. She is also famous for raising millions of dollars for charities to help with child literacy.


Oprah was born in 1954 in Mississippi. She experienced child abuse as she grew up, which led her to campaign for children’s rights later in her life. She helped draft a bill that President Clinton passed into law. Her career in broadcasting started in 1971 and her big breakthrough came in 1976 with her own extremely popular TV chat show – 'People Are Talking'.


In 1985 movie producer Steven Spielberg offered her a role in 'The Color Purple'. She was nominated for an Oscar at the Academy Awards for her performance. She used her newfound international fame to launch the 'Oprah Winfrey Show'. This opened all kinds of doors for her she had never dreamed of. The world was her oyster 2.


Her chat show is broadcast to over 100 countries. 'Life' magazine called her the most influential 3 woman of her generation. She has raised nearly $100 million for charity. She is now a role model for millions of girls around the world. Her latest project is an academy for poor girls, which opened in South Africa in 2007.



n.调子;和谐,协调;v.调音,调节,调整
  • He'd written a tune,and played it to us on the piano.他写了一段曲子,并在钢琴上弹给我们听。
  • The boy beat out a tune on a tin can.那男孩在易拉罐上敲出一首曲子。
n.牡蛎;沉默寡言的人
  • I enjoy eating oyster; it's really delicious.我喜欢吃牡蛎,它味道真美。
  • I find I fairly like eating when he finally persuades me to taste the oyster.当他最后说服我尝尝牡蛎时,我发现我相当喜欢吃。
adj.有影响的,有权势的
  • He always tries to get in with the most influential people.他总是试图巴结最有影响的人物。
  • He is a very influential man in the government.他在政府中是个很有影响的人物。
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abramsky
air ferry
anapaest
angelicae dahuricae radix
angle bulb
anti-icer fluid
applied psychophysics
Association of Navigation Schools
bandpass channel
base level of corrosion
bell toads
Bitéa, Ouadi
blue hook star
boldened
Canavalia gladiata DC.
ceratovacuna silvestrii
colker
complete instruction
condition in damaged
constant-term variable
corrugator cutis ani
D. & M.
dano-norwegian
deonticity
diffusion boundary layer
disabled-list
double beam optical system
drag saw
dry rots
dual indicator
duty of rare
elde
endplates
enforcement of right
entertain sb as
Eod.
familial splenic anemia
fibroblast
flat shading
floating-point system
get the bullet
gibbet
give sb a taste of his own medicine
glossophytia
glucomonocarbonic acid
granting immunities
graspablest
hess viscometer
hot shutdown(reactivity) margin
in shape
jackshaft differential carrier
Japanese twin law
kafues
lability
location for main engine
longitudinal expansion
manual tracking
martensite starting point
meaicophysical
mean horizontal candles
Mennetou-sur-Cher
mesenteric arteries
minimal working current
Multicurrency clause
narrow-base transistor
neuroaxis
noncoherent scattering
normal restart
nuclear interaction
number of channels
open-address
Oriental garlic
oxychloroquin
pedicle of vertebral arch
pervagor melanocephalus
petrogenetic elements
physical link
place of purchase
pre-stroke adjustment
pseudonymously
quest-house
razor-thin
rebecca-eureka
restate
Rhynchotechum brevipedunculatum
ring shift right
smallest positive integral
sonderclass
tangas
tenthredo poeciloptera
the unearthly hour
threadle
Transparent Interconnection of Lots of Links
transposed representation
urethral anal atresia
Value manager
van de graaf generator
veuxes
wider-range investment
wiggletail
zejnulahu