时间:2018-12-03 作者:英语课 分类:2012年ESL之就医和人际交往


英语课

 


Getting a Divorce 


Nicole: I’m really sorry to hear about you and Catherine getting a divorce. 


Tom: I appreciate it, but it was a long time coming. We’ve been heading toward divorce for years. I just hope it doesn’t get too messy. 


Nicole: I don’t mean to pry 1, but didn’t the two of you have a prenup? 


Tom: Yeah, but Catherine wants it set aside because our financial situation has changed so much since we got married. She also wants sole custody 2 of Sarah, alimony, and child support. 


Nicole: We live in a community property state, so that should simplify things, shouldn’t it? 


Tom: You’d think so, but the distribution of property may get complicated. I’m hoping we can settle everything amicably 3, but I’m ready for a fight, if it turns ugly. I’ve hired Dewey Cheatum. 


Nicole: Wow, you’re serious. He’s the most high-powered divorce attorney in this city. 


Tom: I’m not taking any chances with my assets or my daughter. If Catherine wants to play hardball, I’m coming out swinging! 


 


Script by Dr. Lucy Tse 



1 pry
vi.窥(刺)探,打听;vt.撬动(开,起)
  • He's always ready to pry into other people's business.他总爱探听别人的事。
  • We use an iron bar to pry open the box.我们用铁棍撬开箱子。
2 custody
n.监护,照看,羁押,拘留
  • He spent a week in custody on remand awaiting sentence.等候判决期间他被还押候审一个星期。
  • He was taken into custody immediately after the robbery.抢劫案发生后,他立即被押了起来。
3 amicably
adv.友善地
  • Steering according to the wind, he also framed his words more amicably. 他真会看风使舵,口吻也马上变得温和了。 来自《现代汉英综合大词典》
  • The couple parted amicably. 这对夫妻客气地分手了。 来自《简明英汉词典》
学英语单词
.vda
6-aminohexan-1-ol
acropora sarmentosa
aldri
alternate plumage
asbestos cement sheet roof
attendance rate
audio diary
Bangweulu, L.
barium chloride poisoning
be aglow with
Bhubaneshwar
blackstocks
bonding wire
branchiuran
Carex handelii
Ceratomorpha
cholera sicca
coarse wool
complete vibration
corase grained wood
definitized
diffused emitter-collector transistor
digital multi-spectral scanner
dust infection
Dwight David Eisenhower
ensate
er rabba (ar rabbah)
erythro-
european american
exposure draft
eye-mask
fellow-traveling
ferroelectric ceramic capacitor
fibrous-gypsum
first-comer
glazed stoneware
gummite
harps
high temperature sterilizing tunnel oven
impulse-conservation equation
individual contribution
insert entire row
instrument lamp
international code of conduct
intikhabs
iron fist in the velvet glove
kazan gorge (cazane)
King Arthur's Cave
l-type compressor
limits of flammability
line keystone
line signaling
little corellas
macroeconomic policies
Makongo
Meg
methoxy-psoralen
Mineral'nyye Vody
mixed tensor
molecular eddy current
multigender
multiple-order pole
net cage rinser
neutralized amplifier
Northeast China low
opprobriate
partes prima
pebbly
personal accident
petate
philosophress
physiological chemistry of plant
plashful
Polack
PRDH (pressure reducer desuperheater)
principal of a loan
quantum revival
quintan
reinforced mat
rendition of judgment
repeater bay
safeguard inspection
set down
smoke suppressant additive
specified secondary standard instrument
spectral continuous function
staled
suboptimise
Sφrvæg
tax exemption regulation
temporal key integrity protocol
thank goodness
tikaram
training center
true air speed meter
trust remainder
unsymmetric angular milling cutter
upon the spot
value-of-life
wall fish
wangin'