VOA标准英语2011--Hollywood Icon Elizabeth Taylor Dies
时间：2019-01-14 作者：英语课 分类：VOA标准英语2011年(三月)
One of the most famous and most talked-about actresses to come out of Hollywood has died. Film legend Elizabeth Taylor died Wednesday of congestive heart failure at the age of 79.
Elizabeth Taylor's striking 1 beauty demanded the attention of audiences from the moment she appeared on the silver screen.
Her role in National Velvet 2 made Taylor a star at the age of 12, and the parts and the fame kept on coming.
Twice she won the Academy 3 Award for Best Actress, for her role in Butterfield Eight, about a call girl involved with a married man, and in 1966 as a constantly bickering 4 wife opposite actor Richard Burton in Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolf?
Born in London to American parents, she moved to Los Angeles before World War II, and went from child star to Hollywood starlet. But she gained attention for more than just her beauty and acting 5 talent.
Her stormy personal life and eight marriages - two to Virginia Wolf co-star Richard Burton - as well as her friendship with the late pop-icon Michael Jackson, made her a constant source of stories for the press.
She also introduced her own perfume 6 and raised money for several causes, including money for medical research on AIDS.
Taylor was hospitalized for congestive heart failure six weeks ago in Los Angeles. A statement from Taylor's family says she died peacefully, with her children at her side.
- There is a striking difference between Jane and Mary.简和玛丽之间有显著的差异。
- What is immediately striking is how resourceful the children are.最令人注目的是孩子们的机智聪明。
- This material feels like velvet.这料子摸起来像丝绒。
- The new settlers wore the finest silk and velvet clothing.新来的移民穿着最华丽的丝绸和天鹅绒衣服。
- This is an academy of music.这是一所音乐专科学院。
- I visited Chinese Academy of Sciences yesterday.我昨天去访问了中国科学院。
- The children are always bickering about something or other. 孩子们有事没事总是在争吵。
- The two children were always bickering with each other over small matters. 这两个孩子总是为些小事斗嘴。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
- 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。