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
A.W.U.
ADEQ
anti-oscillation vector
antonio carlos
attack submarine
basic group distribution frame
bed-of-nails
Bengkulu, Propinsi
benjamin hill
bisphosphonate
blade tip eddy
bobbinless
boiler brace
Brava, Pta.
breakpoint operation
cartilaginous tympanic annulus
client schedule
composite particles
contingentness
cycle triple
digging processing
dirac spin matrix
disgorge
disporum flavens kitagawa
distribution in plane
drinkablest
economic loss
englacial streams
ex-gratias
exoptable
expression as bound or length
finger spin
focalizer
FSP
full sesh
gate trigger current
genus Arrhenatherum
genus Cassiope
gharibeh
governatore
graeco-roman deities
hyphal knot
ill-assorted
Imari ware
in contempt of danger
invariant decision problem
islamicizing
juridical expenses
k.calcarea cheng et t.k.fu
known value
lexical context
lifting axle
lith ified
lithiation
low brake pedal
low-achieving
mean pitch
mean velocity of molecular
Mganda
multispiral scanning
N-formylglycinamidine ribotide
nasta
neurexairesis
Ngapara
nickson
non-main port
north-caper
notte
oil drilling rigs
omnicardiogra
palasios
Papatoetoe
paramagnetic salt
patining
permanently attached equipment
pignut
Pollia japonica
poppy mallows
portable sprayer
potential advantages
press sb. close
Pycreus diaphanus
Ramo na
ripsonrt
sacrings
sectional leaf cutting
semibright coal
server partitioning
shammock
Shāhbāzpur
solenoidal
Sordaria
t/c
tapstress
teliospore
temperature-sensitivity of pressure
theft-boot
timmia austriaca hedw.
total proctectomy
vanadyl(v) fluoride
Wakura
yttrotungstite-(Y)